5 mens teams and 12 womens teams??!??!?!?!?!? This is not what title 9 is supposed to do. I think we, the running community, should take action and do something, possibly a letter writing campaign, i don't know. I do think we need to bring some sort of widespread attention to this before it starts spreading to other conferences, sports and divisions.
What do you think?
I'm pissed for sure. I'll join in on the letter writing, tell me a name and an address.
Okay boys, take your hand off your crank and get a serious view of life. Title IX had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with this. Young AD's started using the MAC as a stepping stone to bigger AD jobs. Many have done just that. How do the mid-major AD's get noticed???? Pour money into football. Ball State's AD wanted to do some renovations on the football stadium. Where did the money come from......men's track. Ohio U's AD wanted to get a name for himself. How did he do it? He went out and hired the former football coach from Nebraska, paid him twice as much as the previous guy, poured freaking money into new locker rooms, conference rooms, etc. Just freaking pissed money away for football. And what happened. The worthless piece of crap AD just got the AD job at the University of Miami. Oh yea, along the way he dumped men's track to pay for football. You all need to stop blaming something that had nothing to do with it and start attacking the real problem. AD's who only care about making a name for themselves and the way they think that can happen is dump loads of money into football. And that ain't got nothing to do with Title IX. Leave women's sports alone.
Yes, the men's MAC has gone to the shitter. A once proud conference has been destroyed by the AD's at Ball sTate, Toledo,Western Michigan, Ohio University, Bowling Green.
Anyone who goes to a MAC school now is just looking for a free education. A real high school athlete won't need to get any better to score in such a weak conference. It really is pathetic that hs coaches will still direct their athletes there. If you look the perfcormance list in the 3000 for example, the #1 mark in the MAC wouldn't qualify for the fast heat of the Big 10!
Eastern, Kent, and Akron are the only decent schools and they all suck. Whatv a joke of a high school conference. Benedict Lawson will be out of business soon at Kent and then there is no more conference on the mens side!
A letter writing campaign? I suggest armed revolution.
How much do you want it?
-Wilford
Thanks for the explanation
I am afraid it is not just the MAC. With ever increasing football and basketball coaches salaries (the salaries of the football coaching staff at some schols is bigger than the entire operating budget of other athletic departments) and the facillity arms race cuts will continue. Though most track and cross country programs take up only a very small portion of an athletic budget, they seem to be cut first...