It’s official: Four Lobo sports are gone (Univ. of NM, men's soccer, victim of Title IX)

In the first major program cuts since 1999, the University of New Mexico Board of Regents voted Thursday to eliminate four Lobo sports teams under a plan they say will improve the ailing athletic department’s overall health.

The governing board approved cutting men’s soccer, men’s and women’s skiing, and women’s beach volleyball despite more than two hours of public comment by opponents. Athletes, coaches, parents, alumni and other community members delivered impassioned pleas and some withering criticism of the proposal advanced by athletic director Eddie Nuñez and President Garnett Stokes. The two called the cuts a critical step toward addressing long-standing financial problems and newly surfaced Title IX compliance concerns.

Their plan also includes phasing out diving from the women’s swimming and diving program, significantly reducing men’s track and field participation slots, and increasing participation opportunities in some women’s programs.

The regents voted 6-0 to adopt the recommendation, eliciting boos and other taunts from attendees.

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

According to the report, females in the 2016-17 school year made up 55.4 percent of the general enrollment, but just 43.8 percent of the participation “opportunities” in the athletic department.

Under the plan approved by regents, the number of women athletes grows, while the number of men drops — resulting in a balance that complies with Title IX.

To get Title IX-compliant on a shrinking budget, Nuñez had no option, he explained, but to look hard at the elimination primarily of men’s sports.

"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.

Thanks for your analysis. The only positive I can see in this is that the people I have talked to today see the impact of Title IX as unfair. Maybe this will make them think a bit of how the Feds control local affairs and how the outcome is so much worse than what was intended.

Look at the numbers posted in my #23. Men achievers are being penalized in favor of women who may not even be interested in participating in some of the sports gaining additional places:

Men Track and Field:*
– Indoor will go from a roster of 31 to 20
– Outdoor will go from a roster of 32 to 20
– Cross country will go from a roster of 16 to 10
(* some compete in all three sports)

Women Track and Field*:
- Indoor track will go from 43 to 65
- Outdoor track will go from 43 to 65
- Cross country will go from 20 to 39
(*Some athletes compete in all 3 sports)

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