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Joe Foss



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PostPosted: 06/11/15 4:49 am    ::: Minnesota Gender Inequity Investigation Reply Reply with quote

Interesting article about an ongoing Department of Education inquiry resulting from a complaint of favoritism toward men's sports under the current AD.

http://www.startribune.com/feds-weigh-allegations-of-gender-inequity-in-u-of-m-sports/306866861/

The article discusses some of the strange accounting in use under Title IX. Male practice players for the women's basketball team are counted as females, and one female track and field athlete becomes three if she competes in indoor and outdoor track and cross-country.



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PostPosted: 06/11/15 7:14 am    ::: Re: Minnesota Gender Inequity Investigation Reply Reply with quote

Joe Foss wrote:
Interesting article about an ongoing Department of Education inquiry resulting from a complaint of favoritism toward men's sports under the current AD.

http://www.startribune.com/feds-weigh-allegations-of-gender-inequity-in-u-of-m-sports/306866861/

The article discusses some of the strange accounting in use under Title IX. Male practice players for the women's basketball team are counted as females, and one female track and field athlete becomes three if she competes in indoor and outdoor track and cross-country.


It seems to me that counting a woman as 3 athletes for competing in 3 different sports is okay if they do the same for the men.


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PostPosted: 06/11/15 12:55 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Counting the women as 3 track athletes is only wrong if they didn't do the same for male athletes. Distance runners do actually treat the three "different" sports as separate; sometimes redshirting cross country the same season they compete in indoor and outdoor. The way the EADA survey is structured, it asks for number of participants in each sport, not number of unique individuals participating in athletics.

The counting of males as female basketball players is ridiculous but springs in part from NCAA rules which require such men to be eligible by all NCAA rules before they can practice and listed as such on rosters submitted to Indianapolis even though they obviously can't play in games.

College sports will likely ALWAYS be out of balance in terms of not only gender equity but smaller men's sports vs. football and basketball. Football is an astonishing thing: Even at a mid-major that won 11 conference championships in a wide variety of sports this past season but finished 2-10 in football, the gridiron gets the focus; new practice facilities, skyboxes in the stadium.

All for a sport with six home games per year. But universities structure so many events around home football games -- alumni and admissions events; women's basketball recruiting weekends -- that even the most mediocre of football programs come first in presidential and ADial minds.


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