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<blockquote data-quote="Deep Purple" data-source="post: 1031373" data-attributes="member: 17"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Here's what the story didn't tell you:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">Men's soccer was a non-scholarship sport at TCU (women's soccer has scholarships). Officially it was a varsity team, but it operated like a club team. TCU never got any choice players because the team had no scholarship money to lure them. Dave Rubinson did the best he could with very meager recruiting inducements.</span></li> </ul><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">Poor team morale and lack of success were the reasons TCU gave to can the sport, but the real reason was Title IX. It requires that a school must achieve "gender-equity" in varsity athletics relative to male-female enrollment on three fronts: 1) number of student-athletes, 2) number of scholarships, 3) distribution of resources. This is why men's soccer always remained resource-poor and scholarship-free.</span></li> </ul><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">Since the 1990's, TCU (with a 58% female enrollment) has moved much closer to gender-equity in terms of number of student-athletes and distribution of resources, but is still pretty lop-sided in terms of scholarships. The reason is football, which consumes a huge proportion of male scholarships. No other sport, men's or women's, even comes close to the 85 scholarships football enjoys.</span></li> </ul><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">The beneficial tradeoff is that football is the only sport that generates large revenue, sometimes enough to pay for itself, and sometimes even a profit that can be redistributed to other sports, especially women's sports, which often generate the least revenue. So even though football is much more expensive in terms of student-athletes, scholarships, and resources, football revenue also makes by far the biggest contribution toward paying for athletics operating costs.</span></li> </ul><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">Under Title IX, if a school fails to achieve gender-equity -- and about 90% of schools haven't -- it must at least show sustained progress toward equity. This is why adding a women's sport to "balance" the addition of men's soccer will not be done. That's simply a wash. It contributes nothing in the way progress toward gender-equity. This is why TCU will continue to gradually add women's sports, but is extremely unlikely to add any new men's sports.</span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Here's how I came by this information: Every NCAA member-school must undergo a review for NCAA recertification every decade. I worked on the steering committees for two of these reviews at TCU, one back when Frank Windegger was AD and another under Eric Hyman. None of the above information is confidential. It's all publicly available, but apparently not widely understood.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deep Purple, post: 1031373, member: 17"] [size="3"]Here's what the story didn't tell you: [/size][list][*][size="3"]Men's soccer was a non-scholarship sport at TCU (women's soccer has scholarships). Officially it was a varsity team, but it operated like a club team. TCU never got any choice players because the team had no scholarship money to lure them. Dave Rubinson did the best he could with very meager recruiting inducements.[/size][/list] [list][*][size="3"]Poor team morale and lack of success were the reasons TCU gave to can the sport, but the real reason was Title IX. It requires that a school must achieve "gender-equity" in varsity athletics relative to male-female enrollment on three fronts: 1) number of student-athletes, 2) number of scholarships, 3) distribution of resources. This is why men's soccer always remained resource-poor and scholarship-free.[/size][/list] [list][*][size="3"]Since the 1990's, TCU (with a 58% female enrollment) has moved much closer to gender-equity in terms of number of student-athletes and distribution of resources, but is still pretty lop-sided in terms of scholarships. The reason is football, which consumes a huge proportion of male scholarships. No other sport, men's or women's, even comes close to the 85 scholarships football enjoys.[/size][/list] [list][*][size="3"]The beneficial tradeoff is that football is the only sport that generates large revenue, sometimes enough to pay for itself, and sometimes even a profit that can be redistributed to other sports, especially women's sports, which often generate the least revenue. So even though football is much more expensive in terms of student-athletes, scholarships, and resources, football revenue also makes by far the biggest contribution toward paying for athletics operating costs.[/size][/list] [list][*][size="3"]Under Title IX, if a school fails to achieve gender-equity -- and about 90% of schools haven't -- it must at least show sustained progress toward equity. This is why adding a women's sport to "balance" the addition of men's soccer will not be done. That's simply a wash. It contributes nothing in the way progress toward gender-equity. This is why TCU will continue to gradually add women's sports, but is extremely unlikely to add any new men's sports.[/size][/list][size="3"] Here's how I came by this information: Every NCAA member-school must undergo a review for NCAA recertification every decade. I worked on the steering committees for two of these reviews at TCU, one back when Frank Windegger was AD and another under Eric Hyman. None of the above information is confidential. It's all publicly available, but apparently not widely understood.[/size] [/QUOTE]
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