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Message: [QUOTE="dogged1, post: 3912485, member: 7301"] I can't argue that you certainly have the ethical, moral position here. One that I personally share. But as we both know the world is not a particularly fair place. The NCAA is not guided by what is fair and what is right. Like most big institutions they are in it to maximize money and power. As long as their is that large a disparity in revenue, the men's tournament will reign supreme. And further, the NCAA and it's tournaments are not the same at law as the schools and their athletic departments. But I will say in their, the NCAA's, defense that they use the [B][I]income from the men's tournamen[/I][/B]t (there main source, they get very little from the football play-off) [B][I]to support all the men's and women's[/I][/B] [B][I]Olympic sports programs.[/I][/B] The NCAA itself, because they are not an educational institution receiving federal funds, they are not bound by title 9 as a matter of law. An excerpt from Forbes quoting Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg: "The question in [I]NCAA v. Smith[/I] was whether the NCAA qualified as a educational program that received Federal financial assistance such that it had to follow Title IX. In a unanimous decision, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg (may she rest in power), the Court held that dues payments from recipients of federal funds were insufficient to subject the NCAA to suit under Title IX. Justice Ginsburg wrote, "[e]ntities that receive federal assistance [like the University of Oregon], whether directly or through an intermediary, are recipients within the meaning of Title IX; entities that only benefit economically [like the NCAA] from federal assistance are not." She concluded that "the Association's receipt of dues demonstrates that it indirectly benefits from the federal assistance afforded its members," which without more, "is insufficient to trigger Title IX coverage."" In addition, most of the income at the division 1 college level athletic departments is generated by the football programs. So, in affect we have what you are looking for. The men's football and basketball programs are the cash cows that support all the other sports. With out them their would be no money for all the other athletic programs. Uconn does supplement the athletic department with student fees but it is a very small part of the athletic department budget and not the norm for Division 1 schools. [/QUOTE]

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