Many Administrators are convinced title 9 is a wonderful thing, They will tell you "Its the law" . But so is income tax...does that mean we have to like it or be unquestioning about its excesses or uses. Oh yes and Title 9 fans won't tell you but it does have excesses. First off some act as if there were no womens sports before Title9. Oh contraire.
Had a recent discousion about how Sacramento/San Joaquin High schools not having enough "gender equity" to allow a boys volleyball playoff and championship. Despite some of the greatest teams and programs. Yes, the T9 Mafia is working on high schools too.
Not everyone thinks T9 is wonderful. Sports administrators might notice the 200+ outraged responses to a recent development in colleges:
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/asu/articles/2008/05/13/20080513asucuts.html#comments ASU is (was) a preeminent wrestling program.
The PAC 10
has actually been the Pac 9 in baseball and track for
decades. Due to Title 9,
Oregon had no baseball team (they started again this year...but had to drop wrestling for "equity").
Oregon State, the school that featured and developed Olympic gold medalist high jumper Steve Fosbury and his celebrated
"Flop" style..has not been able to justify maintaining Track and Field -due to "equity" reasons. When you see the qualifiers, nationals or the Olympics this year...all the hj contestants will be using the
Flop...which now is the standard technique the world over....
but not at Oregon State...which had Title 9 calculations that doomed its Track & Field more than 15 years ago.
Posted on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 23:49 — by backrow
