Every athletic director needs a women's sport like this. If I were an athletic director I would spend my efforts finding one of these teams instead of figuring out what men's sport is going to be easiest to eliminate. However, I think they were so scared of being sued that they took three extra steps to ensure that they met this gender quota. They dropped the ax on men's wrestling, tennis and soccer. I would make it a point to those I communicated with that the gender quota part of Title IX would at some point in time hurt or eliminate opportunities for women as well.
Gender quotas can go both ways.
Decreasing opportunities for men will just mean fewer opportunities for women in the future. I would also point out that if gender quotas were enforced in other extracurricular activities at the school they would most certainly have a lot of very upset band members, cheerleaders, dance team members, actors, chorus members and other groups to deal with. I also encourage all athletic directors to not let money be used as an excuse or be used as a scapegoat to for what is primarily a legal problem not a monetary one. As most people know, there are very few college athletic programs that turn a profit. If all sports that lost money were eliminated, there would be only a few football and basketball programs.