Before Title IX, when Marion Washington took her KU women's basketball on the road that meant piling them into a station wagon. Because men would be hungrier after games because they played harder. Years later, in the 1997-98 season, women accounted for 40 percent of athletic scholarships. Not if you're a college athletics official trying to feed the insatiable appetites of big time college sports. It's time to poke some holes in those arguments.
Football generates the money to support the athletic programs.
On top of that, football and basketball costs have soared. I is too high. Coach Lute Olson of the University of Arizona admits that coaches are overpaid. Women aren't as aggressive as men, and are not as interested in sports. For decades, women have been systematically denied access or strongly discouraged to participate in sports.