safssdf wrote:
I already addressed this. My school is 50/50 male to female ratio so we can have 50/50 roster ratios. Also, the title 9 rule applies to the entire athletic department. So, a school could double their men's swim roster and cut men's track and still stay at 50/50 theoretically as long as the total number of athletes line up. Come on guys at least have some reading retention. This isn't that complicated.
We had 12 athletes on xc and more swimmers. Now it's equal across all sports with two genders, except a couple women's sports added to accommodate the football roster.
Football has 80-100 roster spots and there is no women's football. To get to 50/50 roster spots your school has to find 80-100 extra womens roster spots in other sports. That's actually hard to do, and it is why xc&track were so skewed recently toward women.
Making xc even at 17/17 means your school now has to have 80 extra women now somewhere besides football and xc.
This is why folks here are dubious.
Still, I will give you benefit of the doubt and guess you are on a bad D1 team going from 0 scholarships and 12 roster spots to now 0 scholarships and 17 roster spots. Only increase in cost is some uniforms and travel.
If sports is used to encourage enrollment, that assumes there is basically no waitlist for general admission at your school. The admission rate must be 80-100%.
Good luck. Train hard.