[staytrue]

It's all about football. Basically, if you give 85 scholarships to men's football, you have to give 85 scholarships to ladies (fill in the blank) sports or cut 85 scholarships to men's sports. This is stupid since football is almost always a profit center. The gross revenues of football money goes into a money pool then is doled out "equally" for men and women. What should happen is that the net revenue (not gross) from football should be put into a money pool that is doled out equally. Currently, when the gross is split up, 80 % of the men's money goes to football which leaves little or nothing for all the other men's sports.

[Nonstatist]

Basically, if you give 85 scholarships to men's football, you have to give 85 scholarships to ladies

But most of the sports programs cut are small school Division III, which don't offer scholarships. Does that make sense? Its because of the safe harbor proportionality rule that apportions monies based on overall attendance in the college.

Did you know over 3 million boys play high school football every year? Thats more than any other sport by far. And that 60 % of the HS athletes are boys? Then why MUST less than 50% of college athletes be boys?