by Title IX; the overall diversity of mens collegiate sports has also decreased. At the University of Georgia, there are ten womens sports and only seven mens sports (Footballs A14). Although I am not a math major, this ratio seems anything but equal to me. Women are getting more opportunities to compete in the sports that they enjoy than men are. Consequently, there are more scholarships available for women. For example, a good female volleyball player has a virtual cornucopia of college scholarships available at her discretion, whereas a great wrestler must look to colleges in the North to have even the slightest chance of attempting to walk-on a team. Why are women receiving more scholarships than men, when there is supposed to be an equal number of scholarships? The answer lies of another part of Title IX, which says, in the words of Minter, that if the student population is 30 percent female, or 50 percent, or whatever, womens sports must be allocated a corresponding percentage of athletic dollars(Footballs A14). In other words, the higher the percentage of women that attend a college, the more scholarships that college will award. But where does this scholarship money come? The scholarships given to female athletes are not supported by the individual sports in which the athletes compete. The money comes from the college or university athletic program, and the fact is that mens sports provide the majority of the money in that athletic program.In most colleges and universities in the South, football and mens basketball teams produce most of the money that goes into the athletic program. Although these two sports earn their keep, they are also responsible for supporting the minor sports in which their school competes. The majority of minor sports are womens sports. I do not understand why women should have the right to receive money from the profits of mens sports while certain mens sports no longer exist because ...
