Even so, the University is way ahead of the WIAC and national averages. It placed caps on the amount of male athletes that could participate in a sport. For instance, only 100 athletes could go out for football. This not only cut the number of male athletes in a program, but also freed up funding for female athletics. Everything comes down to money.
Foster points out that the conference had to do something to create a level playing field.
All schools have to comply with Title IX, but that leaves numerous ways to deal with accordance. One school could have cut a sport all-together and allowed another sport to grow to infinite proportions while another school put limits on each sport. This would have created mismatches within the conference. With Title IX compliance well in hand, now the question of adding a male sport remains. That new sport would have to meet the qualifications of new procedures.