From the StarNews in Delaware: UNCW has its eye out on keeping up with Title IX
“It’s a non-issue for UNCW,” athletic director Jimmy Bass said Wednesday afternoon. “We count tennis players as tennis players. Kids that scrimmage with the women’s basketball team are just students.
“We do everything here straight up.”
From Ed Graney at the Las Vegas Review Journal: Apathy spurs fudged Title IX numbers
The problem with Title IX compliance was, is and always will be football, which more than anything has led to the cutting of men’s sports across the country and schools padding their numbers on the women’s side with male practice players, which, by the way, the Department of Education has no issue.
(Good news for Texas A&M.)
But when you allot 85 scholarships and more than 100 participation spots to football, you have to discover an equal slice of the pie on the women’s side.
Football became too big, too powerful. Yes, it makes most of the money. It also uses most of the resources.
Sorry. Division I football could survive with 40 scholarships and participation numbers of 80. It could. It also would solve most if not all Title IX issues overnight.