Too bad, Title IX isn't simple. Worse, so much misinformation continues to be cast about by people who know better. Blamed every time another non-revenue men's sports program is dropped at the collegiate level, Title IX has taken a bashing over the last several years, a scapegoat for college presidents lacking the wisdom and courage to be fiscally equitable and responsible. Colleges are not being forced to eliminate non-revenue sports. Rather than telling, for example, the football team it no longer can stay at hotels the night before home games or that it must spread less scholarship money around, they cut the wrestling program and blame gender equity.
Football does bring in more money than other sports, but it also spends more than it makes.
Only about 65 schools out of 1,200 in the country that have football teams actually pay for themselves. Today, nearly 30 years after Title IX was enacted, it is absolutely frightening that it is resented. In the late '70s and into the '80s, many girls, this one included, were grateful to be able to participate on the varsity level, not to mention wear halfway decent uniforms rather than gym suits. To be fair, it was going to take some time to get all those areas up to par with the boys. But enough, already.