Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Title IX Complience- Tyler Crellin
When you think about title IX you think about the impact it has on women sports, but not the impact it has on men sports. To comply with title IX, budget cuts sometimes need to be made. Men sports tend to get the short end of the stick because they generally have no say. Why should men have to give up a sport so that women can have a sport that may or may not be as competitive as there's? It is not fair that men have to suffer from title IX. Although, not all schools suffer from it. The big college schools such as OSU, Michigan, and Alabama all have big programs and can accommodate for the costs of title IX better than smaller college schools can. Smaller colleges like BGSU have had to make cuts to men sports programs. Is there a way that the smaller schools can comply with title IX and not have to cut any sports? It would be a tough job, but made easier if football would be considered out of the equation. I think that football should be considered separate from the title IX compliance because of how many players and scholarships there are for just that sport. No college is going to cut a football team, and so the other sports suffer for that. So should the NCAA make football separate, or should it just stay the way it is now. Title IX is tricky, it has helped women sports tremendously but also has damaged men sports in ways as well. I like seeing women sports improving, but I also want to see where sports do not have to get cut from schools to stay incompliance with title IX.
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I never thought of it like that Tyler, in the wide spectrum of things football is so big that it could be considered a separate entity apart from Title IX. Schools are making cuts and those cuts are predominately men's sports teams just to comply with women's sports. Title IX does make it unfair to those teams who have no chance to survive with Title IX. But at the end of the day schools have to promote equal opportunity in sports for both men and women. And with football being probably the most popular sport on all college campuses, it is hard for college programs to try to have a women's team correlate with the football program. If football was considered separate from Title IX then that could open up more opportunities for men's teams that are cut just to comply with Title IX. I can say it isn't fair for men's teams to be cut but at the same time it is never fair for women's teams because it is harder for them to get support and respect for their respective sports. So we have to be able to keep sports equal among men and women in order for us to abide by Title IX.
ReplyDeleteFootball is the main sport that causes problems for Title IX because the sports make so much money and attracts many viewers. I do not think that football needs to be excluded from Title IX because years down the line football might not have its same attraction as it does today. All the same if women had a sport that could bring in revenue at the level that football does life for those enforcing Title IX would be much easier. Also football has many players involved, more than most sports. A women’s sport that supports many athletes, as opposed to a sport like basketball that have around 10 players a team, may be the best route for forming a sport that competes with football. Matching football with another sport is quite the task, but if a women’s sport cannot be found something will finally have to be done about footballs influence on Title IX.
ReplyDeleteJay Clark