Why Title IX is a bad idea

Why Title IX is a bad idea Ok, the idea is a good one. The 50/50 Scholarship mix is the bad idea. In an idealistic perfect world, the idea of "Hey, let's give men and women the same scholarships!" sure sounds good BUT THE TRUTH: 1. MORE MEN PLAY SPORTS THAN WOMEN 2. MALE SPORTS BRING IN MORE REVENUE A reasonable compromise might be to require 35% or so of all scholarships go to women...........but 50%????? This is just bending over so far, that it clearly disciminates AGAINST the men. If you are a woman athlete in high school, you now have a much EASIER time to get a scholship. No wonder Universities are 'cheating' left and right 'counting' more woman than Chicago counts dead people in elections. Given an impossibly stupid rule, everyone scrambles to find loopholes. Let's: 1. Close the loopholes 2. Change the percentage to 35% (prorated for Universities who have more than 50% women on Campus).

Jessica Gavora wrote a pretty good book on Title IX: "Tilting The Playing Field".

Here is to hoping Title IX lasts the way it is at least another 11 years and both of my daughters continue to play soccer! :p

I'm conflicted over it. Made spending money as a youth by refereeing soccer, and the local girls' coaches asked for me by name. I hope you look into a bit of specialized training for your daughters. HS girls suffer knee injuries at a rate 6x greater than the boys. In football its the ACL that takes the hit. In soccer its usually the MCL. Researchers have been studying various interventions in teenage girls to reduce the knee injuries and there are some success stories. I can provide some links if you like.

Please do. Thank-you.

[url]https://harmoknee.com/[/url] Study done at Uppsala University in Sweden showed 77% overall reduction in knee injury and 90% reduction in non-contact knee injuries utilizing the Harmo Knee protocol. Nice big sample size too. 1500+ girls from 12-19 over an entire season of competitive play. Which in Sweden is about 4 hours. Actually it was from February to October. [url]https://smsmf.org/pep-program[/url] The PEP Program was put together by the Santa Monica Sports Medicine Foundation and is the result of their ACL Prevention Project. [url]https://f-marc.com/11plus/index.html[/url] This is the FIFA 11+ warmup program. Shown in a Norwegian study to reduce injury by 46% despite a low compliance rate. This program is prescribed by FIFA as an ideal warmup to *every* practice and has been shown to increase speed and power. My only issue with this is the Harmo Knee protocol need only be done on an occasional basis. The Uppsala study had the girls do HK 2x/week during pre-season, and 1x/week during the season. Heckuva cost/reward ratio. The Uppsala study also had very good compliance rates which suggest the girls enjoy it more. And the FIFA 11+ program was not designed specifically for young girls as HK. I don't know as much about the Santa Monica program. But they are all fairly similar. Some additional half-assed meandering and BS speculation: I'm not aware of any studies - haven't looked - but I'd bet that a good old-fashioned weightlifting program would improve injury rates too. You'll see plenty of stuff for the hamstrings in each of those programs. Kids spend much of their time in school sitting down and restricting blood flow to their hams. As a result of sitting down all the time most of us overexpress our quads relative to hams. I have my 8-year old boy do a short lifting program every weekend. I hadn't really been featuring anything that preferentially hit his hams. Quads and calves yes; hams only as stabilizers. When I did introduce a ham exercise the improvement was substantial and immediate. I once saw Mia Hamm play in an NCAA title game. This was years before injury wrecked her knees late in her career. She could really run then.

This is great stuff...Thanks for the links!

don't forget the cheerleaders...we musn't forget the cheerleaders!!

When I hear the debate about paying a minor cash stipend to college football and basketball players, no one ever mentions the Title IX dilemma.If a college football or basketball player would receive a $400/month stipend, you can bet that lawsuits would begin for the female (field hockey, golf, bowling, rowing,gymnastics,soccer and softball etc.) athlete to receive exactly the same stipend.In these politically correct times, Title IX is here to stay even when common sense and economics demonstrate the obvious flaws of the law.