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It’s official: Four Lobo sports are gone (Univ. of NM, men's soccer, victim of Title IX)
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | July 19, 2018 | Jessica Dyer and Geoff Grammer

Posted on 07/20/2018 1:56:57 PM PDT by CedarDave

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: athletics; newmexico; soccer; titleix; unm
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"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.

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.

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.

21 posted on 07/20/2018 3:36:16 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: CommerceComet
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.Wrestling and men's swimming, diving and gymnastics went in the 1999 cuts.
22 posted on 07/20/2018 3:41:03 PM PDT by CedarDave (DJT: "Rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than risk peace in the pursuit of politics.")
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To: 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!!)


23 posted on 07/20/2018 3:42:34 PM PDT by CedarDave (DJT: "Rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than risk peace in the pursuit of politics.")
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To: Chickensoup

They actually play at a commercial venue Lucky 66 Bowl in the North Valley, a combination bowling alley, beach volley ball court, and karaoke bar.

And people wonder why Breaking Bad was filmed here.


24 posted on 07/20/2018 3:46:56 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

The Journal reported in a Tweet a couple of hours ago that Utah has already announced the hiring of 21-year Lobo ski team coach (11 as head coach) Fredrik Landstedt.


25 posted on 07/20/2018 4:07:53 PM PDT by CedarDave (DJT: "Rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than risk peace in the pursuit of politics.")
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To: CedarDave
women’s beach volleyball

dang

26 posted on 07/20/2018 4:10:26 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: CedarDave

Yep. The government continues to jam a square peg into a round hole.


27 posted on 07/20/2018 4:17:35 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Amendment10

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)


28 posted on 07/20/2018 4:19:26 PM PDT by CedarDave (DJT: "Rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than risk peace in the pursuit of politics.")
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To: CedarDave

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.


29 posted on 07/20/2018 4:19:53 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: 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’


Exactly. In these times of enlightenment of transgender acceptance, Title IX should be a thing of the past.

30 posted on 07/20/2018 4:38:42 PM PDT by freedom1st
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To: CedarDave

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


31 posted on 07/20/2018 4:49:25 PM PDT by TChad
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To: CedarDave

I hope the transgender badminton team is safe.


32 posted on 07/20/2018 5:29:06 PM PDT by moovova
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To: CedarDave

Thanks.


33 posted on 07/20/2018 7:35:09 PM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: CedarDave

Time for all the men cut to go ’trans-gender’ !


34 posted on 07/20/2018 8:50:22 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: CedarDave

They should get some men to identify as women and create a few more “women’s teams”. They’ll be able to keep the balance demanded by Title ix and probably pick up a few national championships until other schools figure it out and give them competition.


35 posted on 07/21/2018 5:23:21 AM PDT by LostPassword
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