Let's keep cutting men's sports. Hey.... it's the economy now, not Title IX.
I find this reasoning amusing.
John Smith
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NCAA's Brand: Don't fault Title IX for Future Cuts
Author: ASA News
Blog URL: allstudentathletes.com/.../ncaabrandtitleix
Description:
Brand expects some schools to drop men's teams in coming months because
of the economic downturn. He is urging them in advance to cite the
economy, not the law that bans sex discrimination at schools receiving
federal funds.
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"......And you can't blame that on feminists for god's sake. They are the last ones watching football."
Your right. It's the lawyers that drafted the ruling. A one sided solution with little foresight to address anything but female numerical inequities as opposed to safeguarding the existing sports for women AND men.
Title IX should have been drafted to help prevent the slash and burn decisions of athletic departments during it implementation as well as the ever present football budgetary favoritism. Unfortunately, it was only written to protect women.
Title IX may fall on it's own sword eventually. It could've been drafted to leverage football AD decisions during budgetary constraints. The problem with reducing the football # scholarships in half may backfire. Who's to say ADs would be willing to spread the remaining scholarship money to secondary men's sports or women's sports. They'd probably just eat it in salary and other budget areas which would result in a net loss of scholarships for women.
John
"......And you can't blame that on feminists for god's sake. They are the last ones watching football."
Your right. It's the lawyers that drafted the ruling. A one sided solution with little foresight to address anything but female numerical inequities as opposed to safeguarding the existing sports for women AND men.
Title IX should have been drafted to help prevent the slash and burn decisions of athletic departments during it implementation as well as the ever present football budgetary favoritism. Unfortunately, it was only written to protect women.
Title IX may fall on it's own sword eventually. It could've been drafted to leverage football AD decisions during budgetary constraints. The problem with reducing the football # scholarships in half may backfire. Who's to say ADs would be willing to spread the remaining scholarship money to secondary men's sports or women's sports. They'd probably just eat it in salary and other budget areas which would result in a net loss of scholarships for women.
John
