This is what most colleges are doing. The problem is that before a school will reach compliance, they will probably run out of sports to offer, since football uses so many roster spots for males, it is hard for any female sport to match it. Schools now had to give the same number of opportunities, scholarships, to females as they do males. Proportionality had nothing to do with the number of teams. This really scared the Football Coaches Association because they knew that in order for colleges to comply, something would have to be done with football.
Football is a unique sport in that there is no equivalent to it in women's athletics.
A football teams needs a squad of at least 80 athletes in order to have the depth to compete. Yes, if you drop football the number of opportunities for both male and female athletes will be a lot closer to proportional, but in most cases, football is the cash cow that funds other athletic teams at colleges. So it does not make sense to compare it, to tamper with, or even eliminate college football. The Football Coaches Association has a few proposals in order to make it easier for colleges to become Title IX compliant. First, we propose to have only the traveling roster count against the football program.