re to be a team.With all of the proponent’s of Title IX talking about the good things it has done for women’s sports, it is important to remember that there are two sides to every coin. While Title IX has increased the number of girls participating in High School athletics from 294,015 in 1971, to 2,240,461 in 1995, and increased the amount of spending on females interscholastic sports from $0 in 1971, to 1.8 million in 1993, it has had ill effects also. [21] The way Title IX is being used and applied, it has turned into a “quota system”. “According to a recent gender-equity study by the National College Athletic Association (NCAA), college women have gained more than 5,000 sports opportunities in the past five years, while men have lost 17,000” [22] Which sports are being cut? Non-Revenue creating, expensive, men’s sports. These are sports like Gymnastics, Wrestling, Golf, and Crew. With Football and Basketball being the two sports which generate the most revenue, followed closely by hockey then baseball to round out the “big four”, they are what is known as “safe sports”, sports which make so much money they can not be cut. The biggest problem is football. This is a guys sport, there is no equivalent to football for women. Football controls a great majority of the scholarships available from a major university, and it creates the most revenue. In order to create that revenue, the school relies on having a team, which is brought in through those scholarships. With out the gross amount of football scholarships, there may not be as much income. However, the downside to this is it limits the number of scholarships available to the “minority sports” men play. Hence the fact that many of those minority sports have been cut. [22] Where does this “quota” come from? The quota in question is set forth in the U.S. Department of Education's g...
