Speed, let it go, man. There is nothing "dishonest" about me, or my comments. Even though I disagree with your position on Title IX, I'm not making it a personal attack on your integrity, as you are on mine.
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No it is dishonest. You aren't looking at the facts and you are spreading disproved myths which basically turn into women bashing.
If you want to talk real numbers and be nuanced in your approach then your only real claim is men's gymnastics and wrestling have been hurt by title IX. Men's gymnastics had 107 teams in the the late 70's its down to 17. Wrestling went from 280-243. All other men's sports have actually added programs and athletes.
If you want to talk real numbers and be nuanced in your approach then your only real claim is men's gymnastics and wrestling have been hurt by title IX. Men's gymnastics had 107 teams in the the late 70's its down to 17. Wrestling went from 280-243. All other men's sports have actually added programs and athletes.
Agree. If profits are the goal of college athletics then we should field a football team and whatever corresponding women's sports to comply with title IX and that's it. Outside of one sport football and to a lesser extent basketball there is no interest in any male or female collegiate sport. Therefore none of them should exist if profits are the goal.
As far as I can tell Title IX essentially replaced male sports that nobody cared about with female sports that no one cares about.
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The difference is that the male players actually wanted to play. Plenty of female scholarship athletes just want the money.
What money? Scholarship money? Regardless, that's a stupid argument that I'll counter with girls actually want to play boys only want the money.
What male sports have been dropped that weren't also playing in empty venues? You guys seem to think that male sports that no one watches are more important than female sports that no one watches. Why?
Have you ever actually watched boys and girls play? Again, I raised 3 girls who played at the top level of high school tennis. Tennis and golf are the ONLY women's sports that actually make money. Tennis in high school is a coed sport. It was amazing how much more the boys played. Yet tennis scholarships are available for girls but not boys. The Brown policy, which I consider equitable, was to help ALL students participate. Hillary brought us numerical equality. I don't know how many times I heard girl's parents praise their chance of a scholarship. The boys parents stay quiet, but they do know the score.
So that's why the women's rowing coaches troll the cafeterias looking for big girls that will row for money?
So quit acting like you speak for "most" people.
Your opinion is your opinion, until you try and make it my opinion.
Go watch the girls softball team play....they usually have pretty filled stands.
Why people feel the need to think that no one watches women's sports is beyond me.
There ALWAYS needs to be some sort of balance.......we need MORE sports to be honest.
Why can other schools do it but we don't?
Do you know how many BIG 12 teams have wrestling while we do not?
It's a shame because Texas has grown tremendously in the sport, it's an original OLYMPIC sport...the oldest sport in history.
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I played college baseball, coached 18 young women (including my daughter) in softball including one of UT's ace pitchers a few years back.
I used to give hitting lessons to a few college baseball players.
I can and DO say this all the time, females play the game of softball much harder than guys do, and that is coming from almost 18 years of experience.
Those that think females just want the money and not the competitiveness of sports haven't a clue what they are talking about.
In fact, a study that was conducted showed that a female college softball player when she finishes her career has the wear and tear of a 40 year old woman.
It irks me when I hear people saying incredibly stupid things like girls don't play as hard as boys....and I wasn't talking about you 1972.
Girls do compete differently. It's much more personal. When my girls were in high school, we took in two european exchange students. The boys spent hours playing the rest of the neighborhood boys, and desperately wanted to win. But when the game was over, they went back to being friends. My experience with my girls and their friends was that it wasn't over just because it was over.
It happens. I would actually like to free universities from federal money. Whether it's art or science, I believe in the free market. The Manhattan project was necessary to counter Japan and Germany during WWII, but I don't think government funding of research and education is as efficient as private funding. This would make Title IX irrelevant.
