MAC Tourney Championship Game - Nov 12 v WMU

[Let'sGoZips94]

On 11/13/2022 at 9:07 PM, Zip_ME87 said:

To provide equality for women, an equal number of athletic scholarships has to be available for both men and women. So, D1 schools that have football have to offer more women's sports teams to make up for the large number of football scholarships. You can't exempt football and provide equality.

 

Simple solution. Offer women's football too. Eliminate the head-count method and just go sport for sport. 

Edited November 16, 2022 by Let'sGoZips94

[Blue & Gold]

On 11/13/2022 at 9:07 PM, Zip_ME87 said:

To provide equality for women, an equal number of athletic scholarships has to be available for both men and women. So, D1 schools that have football have to offer more women's sports teams to make up for the large number of football scholarships. You can't exempt football and provide equality.

Thanks, @Zip_ME87.  This isn't directed at you exactly but at the idea of Title IX in general. So

to play Devils Advocate...

 

"To provide equality for women, an equal number of athletic scholarships has to be available for both men and women"

 

Without Title IX there already are an equal number of athletic scholarships available for both men and women. There is no prohibition for a female earning a scholarship on the football team. What Title IX actually does in practice is make twice as many athletic scholarships available for the women as for the men because there is a prohibition for a male earning a scholarship on the women's team. (As an aside, the trans-lunacy is now infringing upon this).

 

"You can't exempt football and provide equality."

 

But we don't have a "Men's Football" team. We simply have a football team.  Likewise, we shouldn't be required by law to fund both a "Men's Basketball" team and "Women's Basketball" team. We should just have a basketball team.  We shouldn't be required by law to fund both a "Men's Soccer" team and a "Women's Soccer" team.  We should just have a soccer team.  "We have fill-in-the-blank-number of scholarships available.  Come one, come all.  Open tryouts."  This is actually what true equality would look like.  Competition.

 

What Title IX does is actually "equity."  Equality -v- Equity.  Boy do those words look a lot alike but there is a world of difference and don't be fooled when someone uses the word "equity."  Equity is not equality. Equity = quotas, and quotas = everything quickly turns to shite.  Like most all good-intentioned but mentally dubious liberal policies, Title IX is forcing universities (taxpayers; you and me) to spend money that doesn't exist. There are only a very small handful of universities (read Ohio State, Texas, Alabama) that can actually afford the financial burden of what Title IX has placed upon college departments of athletics.

 

Just playing Devil's Advocate because I think this is a good, and pertinent, example of what is being snuck in the back door of our good-intentioned but asleep-at-the-wheel society at large (read, "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" horse scheisse.  It's all quotas.  Which is, ironically, the diametric opposite of equality).

 

Just an interesting conversation to be had on a sport's board.

[Zip_ME87]

@Blue & Gold nothing personal, but I disagree. There is no perfect fix to the disparities that humans seem capable of living down to. However, I prefer the government at least trying to level the playing field rather than letting the worst of human nature run open loop.