(10-19-2020 02:00 PM)Old tribe Wrote:  

(10-19-2020 01:21 PM)zablenoise Wrote:  

(10-19-2020 01:17 PM)Old tribe Wrote:  And, just to be clear, I think Title IX is a great law and I have a daughter who plays tons of sports. I'm just pointing out that the analysis isn't a black and white as people often think. It can be very complicated and subjective.

Sorry we keep asking you questions about this one but I have another. Most people I've talked to who understand Title IX think it's a good idea but the actual law is in need of an update. Do you like Title IX as is? My biggest knock on it is, at the collegiate level, it's just not very effective. Like I certainly wouldn't say men's sports and women's sports are on an equal footing.

It depends on how you define effective. If you define it as resulting in adding more female varsity sports and opportunities for females to play varsity sports, then it's been very effective. I don't think there will ever be complete equal footing for men's and women's collegiate sports, however you would define that, just because consumers like to watch men's college sports more than women's (mostly just football and basketball).

I think the biggest problem that a lot of schools at the collegiate level have (at least as it pertains to Title IX) is their reluctance to reduce spending/scholarships on football. No one wants to do it, for completely logical competitiveness reasons. As a result, schools that don't have unlimited funds take the easy way out and cut men's sports (and sometimes women's sports too, as we know). I think the max number of scholarships for football could be cut.

As for Title IX itself, I'm sure there are some ways to update the law that would make sense in today's world of college athletics. I'm sure when the law was passed that no one was envisioning a world where many (most?) schools are majority female and how that would result in Title IX being applied.

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Title IX laws should be repealed. This legislation has been a major factor in the soaring cost of Higher ED which has made college impossible to afford for regular folks. Because of the high cost of attending, the Federal Govt "loans" money to students so they can pay the colleges more money so the colleges can hire more Title IX administrators. As a result, the total amount of student debt nationally exceedes the total national debt for home mortgages. Many students begin their working lives with a monthly loan repayment of many hundreds of dollars per month, which inhibits their ability to get married, purchase a home of their own and to have children and contribute to the American society.

We have heard from many on this board who have children who are good at sports and were able to gain a scholarship. - what a wonderful thing!!! - so there are 250 women with athletic scholarships. What about the 4000 women students who do not receive a scholarship?? How is this fair and equitable to those women, or to their families writing the tuition checks.?

In my own case, my daughter wanted very much to attend W&M [which she did] but she had no interest in sports [much to my dismay] so no chance of a scholarship for my daughter, how fair and equitable is that? To make W&M more expensive, we lived out of state. You get the picture.

The fact of life is that boys and girls are interested in different things and have different skill sets. Equity has nothing to do with this.