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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Title 9[/quote]

This. There has to be equal participation in sports at a university for men and women. [b]Unfortunately, cheer isn't considered a sport[/b]. So you have men's football teams that have between 105 and 125 players. So you need an equal number of female sports participants in other sports. Men's volleyball isn't that popular and takes up male spots when colleges need to fill female spots. [/quote]

You want cheer to be a college sport??????[/quote]

Lots of anti-title IX people want cheer to be a sport because it gives them another 50 girls to offset football. They think this means more sports for boys. In reality, it probably just means less for girls [/quote]

how does that work out? I'm generally curious to see how that would "mean less for girls" when you add another 12-15 scholarships for girls. I get that some men are required for good cheer teams but generally curious how convoluted the thinking is to get to that.[/quote]

Making cheer a sport would mean another 50 girls are now playing a sport. It means that if athletic departments had the choice between adding another mens sport to pair with cheerleading or to cut a women's sport to keep the numbers equal, a lot will choose to cut. [/quote]

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