alabamagrizzly
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AZGrizFan said:alabamagrizzly said:Grizfan-24 said:Good heavens. You can 'hate' Title IX, but this has been a financial reality for forty years now. All sports minus football, regardless of gender are money suckers. Some work at a near break even margin (men and womens basketball) but most cost more than what they produce. But I don't care. Complain about the mechanism to calculate participation, fine, but the law isn't going anywhere. Athletic departments have known about those issues for decades now.
The issue is the declining desire by states to subsidize athletic departments. This is true at the high school level as well. Right or wrong, financing athletic departments is becoming more and more privatized or directly funded by the year. 6.5 million for athletics or education? I don't think it is a hard equation to figure out where tax money probably should go.
Blame a lot of things, but title IX is not the issue here. University systems are bloated public entities that got fat living off the trough of public funds for decades. This isn't a missoula issue, it is a college issue that permeates every state. Hard choices need to be made, and unfortunately everyone is going to have to give at the altar this time. Either you concede that public post secondary education is worthwhile and states are willing to fully fund its whole mission, or you find other ways to pass off the cuts (higher tuition) or you cut things.
Dennison band aided things for twenty years. Things are going to get ugly at the UM, and I don't think athletics should be spared the knife either.
So just quoting this post cus I don’t want it to get ignored. I don’t know anywhere near enough to even argue any of these points and not just because I’m too far away to know what’s going on. I’ve never really been interested in the political and financial parts of the U and am quite frankly very uneducated in that area. I do believe 24 brings up some real good points that worry me about the future of our school though. I’d like some of you “know it alls” to give more of your opinions on what 24 says. I believe this is what PR was referencing with his numbers. Seems to me that title IX probably isn’t that big a deal as other issues but it’s the easy bandwagon argument by a bunch of football loving men.
I only brought up Title IX to point out the distinction between ALL athletics (which get subsidized) and FOOTBALL, which would not, if looked at on its own.
Definitely a valid point but then there’s others that come in behind and say “oh ya, title IX is definitely the problem.”