(05-21-2020 12:10 PM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  

(05-21-2020 11:54 AM)ken d Wrote:  

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(05-21-2020 11:16 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  https://247sports.com/college/east-carol...147370402/

The axe has fallen.

I still can't believe that Swimming and Diving got an axe because of their continuous good performance but I think I could see something looming for them in the future with their own facility that might have been fly in the ointment.

Welp..four sports got the axe. I guess they had limited choices because the hit had to be equally distributed between mens and womens sports to keep the balance for Title 9.

Their Title IX balance was already out of whack, given that their enrollment is 57% female. This move eliminates more women's scholarship's (22) than men's (14.4). I believe it also gets them to the FBS minimum of 16 sports sponsored.

So Title IX is kind of misunderstood. It doesn't just protect women's sports; it's designed to protect the gender minority at a college. In the case of ECU, that's clearly men. Title IX requires you meet one of these three tests:

Quote:Provide participation opportunities for women and men that are substantially proportionate to their respective rates of enrollment of full-time undergraduate students;
Demonstrate a history and continuing practice of program expansion for the underrepresented sex;
Fully and effectively accommodate the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex; and,

ECU is using the bold part for meeting Title IX, I would imagine.

Now what ECU may have trouble with in trying to offset football is:

Quote:Female and male student-athletes must receive athletics scholarship dollars proportional to their participation;

That's where the head count scholarship reductions may hurt them.

I've thought for some time now that football and basketball expenditures(or at least football) should be exempted from Title IX regulations. The economics of those sports are so fundamentally different. That's before you root their value in the real world factor that without revenue from those 2 sports, the others could never survive.