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Originally Posted by Dakota
Hyperbole, sure. Myth, no.
While it is true title IX has not "{forced} colleges and universities to eliminate hundreds of male athletic teams" it has forced them to choose between spending even more money on athletics or eliminating teams, especially after the Feds decided the only part of title IX they would use in ruling on college athletics was numbers of athletes, ignoring the level of interest requirement.
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Which is exactly to what I was alluding.
The sole purpose of the law was to eliminate discrimination. No where does it state that any programs were to be eliminated.
The bottom line is that the schools used this as an excuse to cut existing programs they no longer wanted to financially support.