(04-16-2018 03:31 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(04-15-2018 08:38 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-15-2018 08:28 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  Kind of surprising to see so many schools in Division I without women's soccer programs. It looks like the list includes the following:

Let's face it: Despite all the Official Mission Statements that use flowery language about a commitment to gender-equality in athletics, most non-Power schools** are playing a desperate min-max game whereby they are doing their best to invest as much money as possible into football and/or men's hoops, while staying within the court-defined parameters of Title IX compliance, and an acceptable public-perception on that issue.

** Power schools of course strive to do the same thing, but their big cash makes it considerably easier to do.

I would be curious to know how many schools have been required to add women's sports teams (or eliminate men's sports teams) because of action by whoever it is that enforces Title IX compliance.

In the 80’s over 200 D-1 wrestling schools...by 2010 the number was in the 70’s. All schools cited title 9 for the reason they dropped it. Arizona, LSU, Syracuse were just some of the successful programs axed.