Eighty-five man rosters are a joke Ron Kantowski's column appears Thursday. His notes column appears Tuesday. And I'd begin with the NCAA's self-indulgent athletic directors and football coaches. I-A football teams need 85 scholarships to get through a season. That's a no-no as far as the Title IX police are concerned.
Federal law requires that schools strive to provide equal athletic opportunities for men and women.
But rather than add programs for the women, the schools usually just subtract one from the men to become compliant. Basically, that's why UNLV doesn't have a wrestling team any more. In reality, wrestling programs that haven't been sacrificed are limited to 9.9. The Scripps story points out that Notre Dame had only 38 players who averaged five minutes or more per game. At Ohio State, it was just 37.