[CedarDave]

The UNM Athletic Department budget has a $4.7 million dollar deficit, mainly due to poor attendance at first the perennial losing football program and secondly to the occasional losing basketball program. However, the UNM men's soccer program is wildly popular in the ABQ area with their successful performance in NCAA playoffs, just missing the national title in one year.

Also, to meet the Title IX requirement, the number of men allowed to participate in the remaining sports has been reduced, mainly in the track and field area.

Both the AD and university president are Anglo newcomers to New Mexico and were indirectly accused of not understanding the culture of the state, especially with respect to the popularity of soccer. I don't think this fight is over.

[CedarDave]

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[CedarDave]

I correct myself: The AD is Latino but he is new to New Mexico.

[Red Badger]

cutting men’s soccer, men’s and women’s skiing, and women’s beach volleyball

2 out of 3 ain't bad..................

[Fiji Hill]

Women’s beach volleyball? In New Mexico? Where did they play? On the banks of the Rio Grande?

[bk1000]

A few of the men should just identify as women to balance this horrible inequity!

/s

Seriously, isn’t it time to do away with Title IX? And how do they reconcile this with their embrace of this tranny nonsense? Come on people! Everybody knows this is stupid.

[Snickering Hound]

Sorry girls, there went your scholarship.

[Fiji Hill]

Their plan also includes phasing out diving from the women’s swimming and diving program

Perhaps the diving program doesn't have many members. These days, if you want to be a diver, there are very few places you can practice that sport. Thanks to government regulations and trial lawyers, diving boards have all but been eliminated in America. Even large institutions such as high schools can no longer afford to install diving boards due to formidable insurance costs.

[2banana]

Men are obviously under represented.

Will there be special quotas, lowering of standards and men only scholarships?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"and women’s beach volleyball"

Okay, this has OFFICIALLY gone too far.

[Flick Lives]

The governing board approved cutting men’s soccer, men’s and women’s skiing, and women’s beach volleyball

They are bringing onboard Olympic Virtue Signaling, however.

[Captain Compassion]

Men’s soccer? No problem. Those men wanting to play soccer merely need to claim themselves transgender and they can play on the woman’s team. I’m just sayin’

[CedarDave]

A little more about the success of the UNM men’s soccer program: UNM men’s soccer program has played in two Final Fours, one national championship game and has been a conference champion seven times since 2001.

[CommerceComet]

A bunch of disjointed thoughts:

Should a university really be offering scholarships for some of these sports? Why aren't these club sports where the participants basically pay their own way?

The unintended consequences of Title IX have been huge. Participation of women has probably risen but at the cost of some men's sports, primarily wrestling.

New Mexico really picked a bad time to tank in football. They were in the abyss when the first round of conference realignment went around and were still bad when the Big 12 was considering adding teams. If football had been good to go along with a historically pretty good men's basketball program, UNM might have gotten some attention from either the Pac-12 or Big 12. Albuquerque is a reasonably large TV market, UNM would be the only P5 school in the state, and the academics aren't awful. The Lobos wouldn't have been a premium addition but may have been a decent partner with another addition.

It could be worse. The Lobos could be like Idaho dropping their football program down to FCS.

I think I could become a fan of beach volleyball.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The skiing part sucks. UNM had a lot of cross country skiers recruited from Norway and Sweden. They would do their dry land training on South 14. Frequently on my afternoon commute I would be treated to a bevy of tanned 6 foot blond ladies in bike shorts and sports bras roller skiing up the hill.

[Amendment10]

"In May, the department released a report showing Lobo athletics is significantly out of compliance with federal Title IX mandates [??? emphasis added] that require a university to provide equal opportunities to male and female student athletes at a proportionate rate to the general student body enrollment."

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Major constitutional problems imo with unconstitutional federal government interference in INTRAstate schooling are as follows, this list not necessarily complete.

First, consider that President Thomas Jefferson had officially clarified that the states would first need to amend the Constitution to expressly give Congress the specific power to regulate, tax, spend, and otherwise stick its big nose into the affairs of intrastate schools, the states having never amended the Constitution for this purpose.

• On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress

• "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Regarding the post-17th Amendment ratification career lawmakers making themselves the national sex equality police without the constitutionally required consent of the states, note that the only constitutionally express power that the states have actually given to the feds to deal with sex-related intrastate issues is voting rights, evidenced by the 19th Amendment.

• 19th Amendment:

  "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

  Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]."

• "Our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union. The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day [emphasis added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column.)

So by replying “how high” when the unconstitutionally big federal government shouts “jump,” the constitutionally low-information University of New Mexico Board of Regents is unthinkingly helping to expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers imo.

If the threat of the loss of federal funding played into the board’s decision then the board doesn’t seem to understand the following. Any federal funding is arguably stolen state revenues, such revenues stolen by unconstitutional federal taxes according to the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above.

NM and the rest of the states need to eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from “helping” the states to manage their revenues.

Remember in November!

Patriots need to elect a Congress that will support Pres. Trump’s vision for MAGA.

[CedarDave]

The article details cuts/gains to each program. In sum the total changes:

Men cut: From 311 to 234

Women gain: from 259 to 313

(My comment: Insanity!!)

[tomkat]

women’s beach volleyball

dang

[SpaceBar]

Oh boo hoo. The media were so beside themselves yesterday over UNM athletic budget cuts that if you had tuned in to the middle of their broadcasts you would have thought two fully fueled airliners flew into the world trade center. Here’s a thought, focus on academics, clean up that filthy campus rife with homeless, and add adequate parking.

[TChad]

They cut women’s beach volleyball? It is blatantly sexist to deprive men of the opportunity to watch this sport.

[moovova]

I hope the transgender badminton team is safe.