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Message: [QUOTE="RSHERMVIKES, post: 2339784, member: 2251"] I remember reading that that first year of Title IX the female head of the Committee gave a speech to congress where she said if men's sports have to take a hit to give women's sports a shot, so be it! As a HS Wrestling coach for 32 years many many universities sacrificed the smaller men's teams for the women's programs. When UCLA, KY, ND, USoCal, etc. gives up men's sports, something like 21 Colleges gave up Men's sports for Women's sports, somethings rotten in Denmark! As first written Title IX had little to do with sports it was mainly to guarantee women got the same EDUCATION as men, then branched out to women's sports! As mentioned above College FB ruined the #'s as they carried over 85 players and the law said equal # of participants per school, and no other sport carried that number so they started closing down smaller men's teams such as Wrestling, Tennis, Golf, Gymnastics,that carried 15 to 20 individuals, till they got to 85 or so students to make it even! The powers that be should never have allowed FB to be included in the formula as it's a separate animal, leave FB out and count the rest! I'm all for Title IX, but not at the sacrifice of men's sports, that's reverse discrimination! [/QUOTE]