The University of Michigan has backed up these words elevating women's soccer and women's crew to varsity status in recent years without successively eliminating men's sports. But it's not meant to elevate women and take down men. Women's crew was promoted to varsity status at Michigan State after the university decided to cancel the men's lacrosse and fencing teams in 1997. Much of the controversy has evolved around proportionality, which the NCAA defines as the male to female student body ratio to the male to female student-athlete ratio. Many, such as former Brigham Young University wrestling coach Mark Schultz, claim this is illegal.
Proportionality is illegal.
It's a quota that's illegal. BYU's wrestling program was cut following the 1999-2000 season. Many have argued wrestling programs are being cut for other reasons unrelated to Title IX, among those, budget constraints, poor attendance and lack of participation at lower levels. But the facts of the issue disprove all of the above reasons given for the cuts. Wrestling is one the least expensive varsity sports.