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Title nine hurts funding for men’s sports
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Title Nine is hurting men’s sports across the nation. Women’s sports are receiving funds that were once spent on men’s teams: wrestling, track, weightlifting, swimming, and baseball. The money is now used to budget women’s sports, such as women’s basketball, softball, soccer, swimming, and gymnastics.
Men’s baseball and wrestling squads are in a financial fight to stay alive. Schools are now dropping their smaller men’s sports programs i.e. wrestling, baseball, swimming and cross-country, because of the lack of fan, alumni and booster financial support. Here at Boise State we are lucky but schools close to us have had to make this sacrifice. Take for example BYU, at one point had a great wrestling team, now the program is not in existence.
Section 1681. of the Title nine education amendment of 1972 states that “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
There are many articles on this issue and they all state the problem with Title Nine. By giving women’s sports an opportunity to achieve, the same people are taking away the chances and hopes of college wrestlers, baseball players, track stars, swimmers and weightlifters. These athletes who number in hundreds are forced to transfer schools, to schools that have enough money to provide the athlete with such a program.
Most people have no problem with women’s athletics. In fact the general public is in total agreement with Title Nine and its effects on collegiate athletics. But this issue has to be looked at by both sides. The politicians who are trying to win votes by giving hope to women athletes are only taking the team away from the dedicated male athletes.
Wrestlers in the United States are now trying to organize, raising funds from outside the schools and the NCAA. They are also trying to reverse the effects of title nine.
Abby Vaughan