As of 8:10am this morning one of the finer programs in the country is lost due to "budgetary" problems.
No one saw it coming and they just recently signed some top level recruits that gave them one of the top 3 recruiting classes in the country.
Well, it's not the women's fault. It's football's. More equity among sports scholarships is what's needed. How many of the 85 football scholarshps are for bench warmers? I just don't see how 85 scholarships for one sport is defensible.
Cutting women's olympic sports to have more men's olympic sports is not the answer and, as I said above, would unfairly penalize women. It would be nice if the NCAA stepped in. Otherwise, $$$ and the obsession with football rule.
Don't you think what really needs to happen is a complete review/update of Title IX and a revision college sports programs around true overall participation rates of men and women in the general population? If the ratio of boys to girls in sports pre-college is 50/50 that should be a basis for how colleges are set up.
And football isn't the problem, the wussy AD's looking for quick fixes are the problem.
Well, it's not the women's fault. It's football's. More equity among sports scholarships is what's needed. How many of the 85 football scholarshps are for bench warmers? I just don't see how 85 scholarships for one sport is defensible.
Cutting women's olympic sports to have more men's olympic sports is not the answer and, as I said above, would unfairly penalize women. It would be nice if the NCAA stepped in. Otherwise, $$$ and the obsession with football rule.
Don't you think what really needs to happen is a complete review/update of Title IX and a revision college sports programs around true overall participation rates of men and women in the general population? If the ratio of boys to girls in sports pre-college is 50/50 that should be a basis for how colleges are set up.
And football isn't the problem, the wussy AD's looking for quick fixes are the problem.
