So that means if you have 500 men interested in various athletic programs, you then need 500 slots for women. If you can only afford to have 600 total athletic slots open, they have to be split equally, 300 men/300 women. Not only that, if you have 500 men interested, but can only find 100 women that want to compete in college athletics, you have to cut out 400 of those men to make the ratios equal or you will lose funding AND be in violation of NCAA rules in support of Title IX.

To add to this craziness, budgets have to be equal. So when you look at college athletics, what is the largest, most expensive sport? Football! So you have 60 members of a college football team, and a massive budget for training, equipment, coaches, etc. Now you need to spend equal amounts on women’s athletics, and find enough women to fill out teams in equal numbers to football. So you have to pretty much take what you have in football, in terms of athletes and money, and double it so that you can have equal representation in women’s sports. After you do that, it is hard for colleges to have either enough money left over for other sports, or enough women interested in sports to fill out equal roles for men’s wrestling, swimming, gymnastics, and plenty of other “secondary” sports that are just easier to cut than deal with the regulations and quotas created with Title IX.

Since a college is not going to cut football, as it is probably the only sport that actually brings revenue into a university, then the other men’s sports get cut. Colleges are simply not willing to give up football, because it brings about an alumni presence, games sell tickets, and it grows general university acclaim to attract new students. Every other men’s sport suffers because of this, but it is not football’s fault, it is Title IX.

A great book on this is Jessica Gavora’s “Tilting the Playing Field”, but be careful, because she may have watched Fox News at sometime in the past, which I am sure totally invalidates a well-researched book in a lot of peoples’ closed minds.

College MMA teams are an interesting thought, does anyone out there know if there is any kind of College club MMA teams that compete against each other, or is this still just a far off idea?

I didn’t attack Ronin, and nothing about my post was insulting. With that quibble, I’ll take heed.

At the risk of seeming picky, according to the U.S. constitution, it’s Congress who passes the budget and any other piece of legislation, such as “tax breaks” for the “rich” (who pay the vast majority of the taxes, anyway). And if you’re worried about high taxes and budget deficits, one hopes you’ll listen carefully during this election cycle when specific candidates start talking about new programs. How much will they cost, are we borrowing to pay for current programs, and what’s the economic effect of tax increases to balance the books, especially in an economic downturn/recession?

You talk about a nanny state, where have you been the past 8 years?
Have you seen the problems America is facing because of the White House, the only legislation that got passed was tax breaks for the richest people, while the nation debt is out of control the budget deficit is out of control. Government has taken more rights away from from you, the Government has grown. There has been no leadership show on the economy and your guys are talking about politicians being PC.

Well I know a guy who needs a job next year he could be in charge of college and University sports programs and he not PC or Liberal and he love sports…..