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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4312009, member: 71"] It does get a little complicated. Title IX measurements are scholarship dollars, institutional support and participation. Adding the (I believe it is) 12 scholarships to women's sports to match the added lacrosse scholarships is possible (if funding can be found). The institutional support is also something that with reasonable effort can be matched across gender lines. As the men's lacrosse team would quickly have 35-40 players in total (with non scholarship and partial scholarship players) expanding participation in women's sports by ~35 non scholarship athletes would be a difficult task. I've spoken to our three most recent AD's about this at different times over the past nearly two decades. Hathaway didn't want to be bothered. Warde wanted to do something but saw the hockey upgrade as a larger priority. Additionally, as we already had non scholarship men's ice hockey, the upgrade was less drastic as adding scholarship dollars (while in itself a bit of an issue) was the only obstacle. Benedict loved the idea but found out early how big of a financial hole we needed to climb out of (if anything we are deeper today) and hasn't been able to consider it.this is absolutely a case where we would need major donations to not only fund the men's team (including coaches and recruiting, beyond scholarships) but also women's matching scholarships and recruiting dollars to find a sufficient number of non scholarship or partial scholarship female athletes to participate in various sports for a Title IX compliance. [/QUOTE]

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