For colleges, men’s sports are often hugely profitable, while women’s sports nearly always aren’t. This caused many schools not to support women’s sports at nearly the same level as men’s. Add to that the fact that far fewer young women than men are even interested in joining college sports teams — due, no doubt, to pernicious masculine oppression — and what do you get?
Inequality.
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the State abhors inequality. So a few years back, into the breach it leapt — with all the sagacity, foresight, and subtlety of method we’ve come to expect. This has now produced the usual cornucopia of unintended, if not entirely unpredictable, consequences. Story here.
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Whew!!! It’s seems to’ve worked.
And now that it has, I’ll just offer a solution (gratis) for all those universities that had the bad luck of getting noticed by the NYT over Title IX violations.
Follow Arkansas’ lead. Our University of Arkansas, struggling with the problems of keeping the Razorback football team relevant in the NCAA football bowl competition came up with a novel plan.
So far the only farsighted state to recognize it’s utility? Mississippi. (Kentucky has reportedly commissioned a study.)
Declare “texting” a competitive sport.
(There’s not the obvious drawback in most college sports – academic ability – so poor spellers and grammarians, it is anticipated, can graduate with honors.)