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

Is it that football is more expensive so they don’t offer men’s volleyball?

So far have seen schools offer one or two more sports for women.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Big_Red[/quote]

D1 football teams carry between 115 and 130 players. That means that just to offset football, you need 115-130 roster spaces in girls sports without a corresponding boys sport[/quote]

So the problem is football not title 9[/quote]

Actually, it depends on what you consider “a problem”. If you take away football, you are not going to all the sudden have men’s volleyball. Instead, you would no longer have women’s volleyball.  Football pays for itself and provides funds for other sports. It’s also a big alumni/community building thing.

If you took title 9 away, you would still have football, but a lot of the women’s sports would disappear. [/quote]

Football loses money at the vast majority of schools. Out side of the P5, football is a breakeven proposition at best. Towards the bottom of the G5 through DIII football loses more money than any other sport [/quote]

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