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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 3999957, member: 44"] You aren’t wrong since the NCAA is ultimately controlled by it’s member institutions. Still the disparity shown in last years tournament was unacceptable and bespeaks an utter disregard for the needs of female student athletes. While I agree with and support the issue generally, I thought this statement seemed a bit disengenuous:[ATTACH type="full" alt="D2F49303-2E94-44F6-9A72-84C3A65EFA3E.jpeg"]68278[/ATTACH] First, the treatment of high school athletes is irrelevant to remedying in the gender equity disparity by the NCAA. That’s what that first half of that quote is discussing. I would like to see the numbers for the second half of the quote. It seems like the speaker is talking about egregious be behavior. 90% is a big number right? But there are a whole lot of modifiers sentence. And first, it’s not 90%, it’s “almost 90%“. But what are “almost 90%”doing? “Offering disproportionately higher rates of athletic participation opportunities. OK that still seems bad, but disproportionate as to what? Oh well it’s disproportionate as to male students when compared to enrollment. So, I think she’s trying to say is that given that most schools have more female students than male students they should offer more scholarship opportunities to female students as an absolute number than they do to male students absolute number. Whether you agree with that proposition or not Title IX does not require that it requires equal participation. Sorry for the bit of a hijack, but it’s a pet peeve of mine when someone uses deceptive language to the advance an otherwise legitimate cause. At best it is a distraction and at worst it undermines the otherwise legitimate points. [/QUOTE]

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