Another thing that should be pointed out is that there are sports like hockey, lacrosse and soccer that will never become Varsity sports because of Title IX.. Ask a AD at any college asking why they don’t have these sports and they will tell you flat out TITLE IX. I like her recommnedation of just exempting football from the law as their is no equivalent sport for women.
I don’t agree with just flatly exempting football. The exemption should be gender and sport neutral.
Simply put - any sport that generates sufficient revenue to support itself, including it’s proportional overhead costs, is exempt from Title IX proportionality computations.
After all, the complaint is about institutional support, if the institution is not providing the support but, as in the case of football, the sport is providing support for other programs, then there is no reason for revenue sports to be part of the calculation.
This allows for women’s sports that generate revenue (e.g.Tenn WBB) to be removed from the equation also. So let’s assume a 50-50 general population distribution. Let’s say football, MBB and WBB all are self supporting. Then one should expect that among all the “supported” sports there is an equal distribution of men and women athletes.
If, for instance, the only self supporting sport is WBB, then there should be an equal distribution among all the remaining sports.
This is the only fair way to calculate things. In truth, one could make the argument that all self supporting sports and all the other sports that they fully support should be exempted from the equal distribution calculation - but that becomes somewhat more complicated and open to question.