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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work at a highly ranked university with a robust athletics program. Cuts in programs at big/elite schools won’t happen, for two reasons: first, Title IX (unless DeVos uses the pandemic as an excuse to suspend/kill it, which seems like the sort of thing this administration would do); second, American cultural glorification of athletes.

The fact that so many CEOs were college athletes isn’t the endorsement of college athletics a PP thinks it is; rather, it’s an indictment of the narrow way we view the qualities that make for successful leaders—competitive, driven, privileged, white, male. Lax bros don’t run Wall Street because they are smarter or better; they are simply protecting their own privilege—and they can get away with it in part because we’ve all bought into the idea that athletes are great leaders and that leadership in business/life is analogous to leadership on the field.

All of which is to say, barring a radical change to Title IX, not much will change. The wealthy white people whose sons play for their college golf team will not allow the unprofitable men’s golf team to be cut. Which means the unprofitable women’s golf team won’t be cut either. Etc. [/quote]

Title iX is a federal law not an executive branch policy that the DOE could change.  Congress would have to act to change the law. Men’s non-revenue generating sports are the most at risk for being cut. I’m most familiar with swimming and know that most swimmers do not get full rides. There are already many schools that have only women’s swimming teams or only give scholarships to the women because they have to off-set the number football scholarships.  Just because a school has men’s golf does not mean they offer Golf scholarships BTW. And, FYI, the NCAA said “no” to the request that schools be able to have less than 16 sports and stay in Division I.  That means that  JMU, which only has the minimum 16 sports teams currently, will have to keep them or leave Division I entirely. [/quote]

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