Harvard newspaper doesn't want a 4th sorority

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Sounds like the problem with the non-D1 schools is the insistence on a football team then. Title IX is NOT why guys teams get "screwed." Title IX is why womens teams don't get screwed nearly as often. Without it, during funding cuts, womens teams are the first to go, with it, both genders lose sports funding at about an equal pace.

I don't think there's another way to achieve the goal of IX in a society that devalues women's sports as ours does.

Are you saying non D-1 schools should just bag their football teams then? Believe it or not, there are non D-1 players who end up in the NFL (and coaches too).

I don't want to think about the alum support my D-2 school would lose if we got rid of the football team - it would make the athletic funding situation even worse.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Are you saying non D-1 schools should just bag their football teams then? Believe it or not, there are non D-1 players who end up in the NFL (and coaches too).

I don't want to think about the alum support my D-2 school would lose if we got rid of the football team - it would make the athletic funding situation even worse.

Not seriously, no. Although plenty of schools do just fine without football teams and even play (brace for it) soccer. Men AND women. But we have a fundamentally flawed system that prioritizes the money making for the school over the benefit of the student-athletes. When people complain that guys teams get cut because football has SOOOO many slots, I'm not particularly sympathetic since too many people wouldn't care if football, basketball and baseball were the only sports around and who cares about women's sports in the first place. Title IX at least makes the cuts hurt everyone equally rather than just women.

And who gives a crap about the NFL? It's statistically irrelevant. So few people make it in the first place that Joe Schmoe coming from Division Two U doesn't exactly present a convincing case for prioritizing football above all.