ASU Men's Swimming/Diving Cut

The sad thing is there may be more to come with other schools. Swimming doesn't make money. Football is the cash cow Basketball and baseball do OK too Not baseball. The vast majority of football programs lose money b/c the over-head is exorbitant. But they are "loss leaders": a university simply will not make as much money from alumni w/o a football team. Some schools get by w/ a high-powered basketball team. That's what I'd opt for. Football, not Title IX, is the chief culprit. It's kind of a combo. Football takes a huge number of athletes to field a team. Title IX, or rather... its draconian interpretation..., is absolutely a factor in this because schools are required to keep the number of male and female athletes in line. I'm an avowed feminist, and I scream at the top of my lungs that feminism is the "radical" notion that men and women are equal according to the law. But it's time that there be some give and take regarding Title IX's implementation. First, though, we must address the fact that boys/men are seriously lagging behind women in getting accepted to universities. In other words... the concentrated effort for equal rights has worked so well that men are actually falling behind women at the undergraduate level. En masse. Part of that is due to "male privilege" and laziness for some boys. But for minorities and lower economic class boys it has everything to do w/ major social issues that allow boys to fall off the college-bound track. In other words: whereas Title IX fought to make sure that women weren't getting short-changed when it comes to public funds, there now is a need to incorporate men in order to make sure they aren't getting short-changed. (Personally, I find it shocking to say that!) **To complicate these issues further: the trend begins to reverse itself when it comes to graduate education; and in the professorship ranks... it's still an Old Boys' Club w/ a major glass ceiling.

The sad thing is there may be more to come with other schools. Swimming doesn't make money. Football is the cash cow Basketball and baseball do OK too Not baseball. The vast majority of football programs lose money b/c the over-head is exorbitant. But they are "loss leaders": a university simply will not make as much money from alumni w/o a football team. Some schools get by w/ a high-powered basketball team. That's what I'd opt for. Football, not Title IX, is the chief culprit. It's kind of a combo. Football takes a huge number of athletes to field a team. Title IX, or rather... its draconian interpretation..., is absolutely a factor in this because schools are required to keep the number of male and female athletes in line. I'm an avowed feminist, and I scream at the top of my lungs that feminism is the "radical" notion that men and women are equal according to the law. But it's time that there be some give and take regarding Title IX's implementation. First, though, we must address the fact that boys/men are seriously lagging behind women in getting accepted to universities. In other words... the concentrated effort for equal rights has worked so well that men are actually falling behind women at the undergraduate level. En masse. Part of that is due to "male privilege" and laziness for some boys. But for minorities and lower economic class boys it has everything to do w/ major social issues that allow boys to fall off the college-bound track. In other words: whereas Title IX fought to make sure that women weren't getting short-changed when it comes to public funds, there now is a need to incorporate men in order to make sure they aren't getting short-changed. (Personally, I find it shocking to say that!) **To complicate these issues further: the trend begins to reverse itself when it comes to graduate education; and in the professorship ranks... it's still an Old Boys' Club w/ a major glass ceiling.