Heck, even the NFL gets by with a 45-man roster. A veteran colleague argues that since football is the engine that drives the athletic department train, it should reap the benefits of that monetary stoking. He hasn't conceded that football is also the caboose that is the biggest single-sport money drain. The saddest repercussion from Title IX is the discrimination against men's nonrevenue sports such as volleyball, wrestling, water polo, soccer, gymnastics and golf. Rather than take an aggressive approach to fund-raising or sponsorship, athletic departments are taking the easy way out with a giant eraser.
Gender equity is about equal opportunity and fairness to all.
It is not a battle of the sexes. There has to be a solution other than axing men's minor sports. Perhaps the NCAA should take some of that ridiculous amount of television revenue and fund minor sports for both genders. Discrimination wasn't working 25 years ago. Reverse discrimination isn't going to work today.