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Message: [QUOTE="Patman, post: 4728530, member: 3391"] historically there's been 3 ways to go after schools on title ix, and this is based on whatever stuff i heard on some NBC thing back in the late 90s back when I was in HS. One is on participation numbers, another is on expenditures, the other on some kind of implied interest of students. The last one being a bizarre non-starter because of chicken and egg... and frankly this was like 25 years ago when I was in HS. I think when most of the fur was flying on these lawsuits it was usually the first in combo with the second limited to scholarships. Nobody really wanted to knife football too hard by saying equal monies had to be spent but they do walk that line on other elements. I think the real reason is they generally don't want the issue going to a jury box because people look dismally on student athletes whining unless they're getting abused outright. You'd have to have things so out of whack beyond what is even normal. For instance maybe lunchables versus a 5-star menu. ---- I will say that title IX does have a small saving grace for a lot of schools as opportunities (read scholarships) can be restricted relatng to the split of male/female on campus. So if you are a tech school you aren't obligated to give womens schollies on a 1:1 basis. Presumably a teachers college with a high female count would be in the same boat but different. [/QUOTE]