I'm surprised we haven't heard from David Miller on this. He always has something ridiculous and evil to honk out. Anyway, the reason why Title IX was implemented in the first place was that college athletics had--due to the proliferation of network TV broadcasts--become big business. And that enticed colleges and universities to divert resources toward creating powerful, competitive, and photogenic sports teams--all too often, at the expense of other programs and areas much more related to actual education. And one area that particularly suffered was women's sports--because they were never going to generate any real revenue.
The little flaw in this grand plan turned out to be that almost all college and university sports programs lose money. Sometimes, those losses are MASSIVE. And those losses have to be taken from other areas--such as classroom facilities, student housing, and scholarships. And the constant fierce competition for the best players and coaches creates an arms race, resulting in huge expenditures.
The purpose of private universities may be to make money, but the majority of colleges and universities in the US are PUBLIC--state colleges and universities and community colleges. They were chartered not to be football franchises, but to be institutes of learning. Athletic programs exist as a way for students to enjoy themselves. They were never meant to be revenue generators.
Title IX addresses the sad fact that because of the profit motive, colleges and universities were much more inclined to pour money into their men's athletic programs and neglect their women's programs. Women deserve those recreational opportunities as much as men do.
I realize that any such statement--that women deserve something as much as men do--makes our resident conservitards recoil in misogynistic horror.
