(10-17-2020 01:51 PM)TribeFan1983 Wrote: (10-17-2020 12:03 PM)Blow Gym rat Wrote: I think, Title IX or not, it’s very unlikely that any new sports will be added now or anytime soon. What needs to happen is that any restorations from the Tribe 7 list would need to hit the right M/F balance.
Restoring both swim teams, for example, looks like it could easily be made Title IX-neutral. Now they’re at 26 women and 22 men, or 54%-46%. Shifting one or two roster spots would put them where they need to be.
Other options might adding back women’s gymnastics but not restoring the men, since MGYM is on its last legs from an NCAA standpoint.
Frankly, if Title IX had been designed pragmatically, some way would have been found to accommodate football. The sheer size of the rosters puts everything else out of balance, particularly as women increasingly predominate as a component of the student population. The result is a dearth of opportunities for men in other sports at many universities, which will be bad for the long-term health of many sports in the U.S. — fewer participants, fewer coaches, less interest, etc.
The drafters of Title IX also assumed the same percentage of college men and women desire to play interscholastic sports and that both sexes do so with the same intensity of interest. Are there studies that support this? Do the fine women of the Nebraska bowling team or the Auburn equestrian squad play their sport because they love it, or do they do it for the scholarship money?
There are fewer opportunities at all levels for women to play sports, on top of societal gender stereotypes that discourage women from playing sports. Pretty much your whole post is why Title IX exists. Why would you need studies to show that there is equal interest? Shouldn't you need studies to show there isn't?
If you had two kids, one boy and one girl, the boy can pretty much decide to play any sport and have an opportunity to play it throughout at least his collegiate life. Until you can say the same about the girl, Title IX is necessary. Since Title IX, female participation in sports has skyrocketed, in nearly all cases wherever there were opportunities created they were filled. I put the "nearly all" in there because I don't have numbers for every high school and college across the country. From this paper (
https://thesportjournal.org/article/expo...-athletes/)
"This increased accessibility to sports sparked a change of less than 32,000 intercollegiate women and 300,000 high school girls that participated in sports prior to ‘Title IX’ to 200,000 intercollegiate women and three million girls that participated in sports in 2010."
With regard to that timespan, in the last 10 years of it men's and women's participants grew in similar numbers.
https://www.espn.com/espnw/title-ix/stor...s-title-ix
"According to data released by the NCAA in 2011, the number of male student-athletes has grown from 214,464 in 2002 to 252,946 in 2011. That's an increase of 38,482. During that same period, the number of female student-athletes increased from 158,469 to 191,131, a gain of 32,662." That's roughly 16% for males, 18% for females.
For more from the NCAA,
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/incl...-questions
Title IX is not perfect, but most efforts to modify it are simply efforts to spend more money on football. Men's swimming and gymnastics aren't competing for scholarships with women's swimming and gymnastics. They're competing with football.