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Originally Posted by sleepwalk

Thank you for pointing out some of the logic problems in my previous post. The problem is not that women can't/shouldn't be athletes. The problem is that men's sports programs are being disbanded regardless of success rate and student-athletes are losing scholarships and opportunities for scholarships.

I am all for women's athletics. My one sister competed in college and the other was recruited but decided to forego it. Both find Title IX to be flawed and harmful to athletic programs. I trained side-by-side with female athletes in college on club teams. To me, a person, regardless of gender, who is fit and confident is in a better place than one who is not.

The problem is that the University of Miami has a women's swimming program but no men's swimming program. The problem is that a national powerhouse like ASU has cut it's wrestling program as so many others are. I would have no problem with fielding a wome's team to go with every men's team. I do have a problem with the idea that a sport that involves shin guards and a field hockey stick getting the same amount of funding as one that requires transporting 80 kids back and forth across the country with their helmets and pads every fall.

There needs to be an exception for football. If the school can field a women's football team, then fine. They can even get some of those scholarships. But have the need. In high school, I wore an eight-year-old uniform. Not a problem, it was getting dirty every Saturday anyway. But when the brand new girl's lacrosse team got to keep their uniforms, equipment and warm-ups, because they had to get new stuff next year to use the budget money? It just seemed a little weird. Not resentable, just weird.

Yeah, Title IX may be a little flawed or outdated....but it something i think we can both argree on (unlike most in this thread) that was way overdue. My point to you was you named off 4 sports that girls "excell" or whatever at. My point is that women don't have the variety of sports programs that boys have growing up and this has alot to do with your point.

I would maybe be o.k. with a football exclusion. But really, college sports programs are not there to be "money makers"! Yes they have become that, but that was not the reason for allowing them in the first place. College sports are meant to help develope our young early adults for life after college.....and women should have just as many opportunities to be developed.