I also see no mention of the corrupting influence of Title IX both in terms of putting females in administrative roles for which they are unsuited and in terms of the ‘recruit female athletes for sports for which there are no audiences.’
When I heard the story about being on the crew teams and pole vaulting teams I suspected it involved some kind of a Title IX exploit. These schools have the money and the NCAA sports revenues from basketball and/or football that they have a lot of funds for these more marginal sports programs - and likely a dearth of qualified applicants for them.