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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Title IX requires equal opportunity. Odds are they had more men's sports than women's.
And how is this 80%?
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Unfortunately, Title IX doesn't necessarily mean the number of sports. It means the number of PARTICIPANTS in sports. And the football team, with a hundred players, skews the numbers significantly. Since there is no women's sport that has THAT many people on the team, schools usually need to cut men's teams to make sure that they don't disobey Title IX.
If football was not counted, it wouldn't be an issue, but it is.
Here's a little article for more info:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4326021