(06-03-2021 05:55 PM)Big Red Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 01:37 PM)HuskieDave Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 12:31 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  If the purpose of this is to see if baseball or another men's sport is expendable, please kill 1 or 2 women's sports before eyeing any men's teams. We have 9 ladies teams and only 7 mens sports at NIU, no men's team should be near a chopping block with that ratio.

Not true. The number of football scholarships far exceeds that of any other sport. Title IX is based on scholarships granted by gender. The actual number of sports is immaterial to compliance. That is the reason there are nine womens sports and only seven for men.

I'm almost 100% positive football scholarships don't factor into Title IX (or maybe not at the full amount).

Otherwise, you'd have to have like 6 additional women's sports to make up for just football alone.

Unfortunately, they do.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/incl...-questions

Q. Is any sport excluded from Title IX?

Under Title IX there are no sport exclusions or exceptions. Individual participation opportunities (number of student-athletes participating rather than number of sports) in all men's and women's sports are counted in determining whether an institution meets Title IX participation standards. The basic philosophical underpinning of Title IX is that there cannot be an economic justification for discrimination. The institution cannot maintain that there are revenue productions or other considerations that mandate that certain sports receive better treatment or participation opportunities than other sports.