Backwards Title IX at it again

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Old School

Actually, you are wrong. These are very related. This is exactly the coaches point or position the coaches/opposition is taking. Why change it is the question? Because, point #2, men are taking practice time away from the women.

Either you're full of sh1t and making this up as you go along or you'll provide a link to a member of any ncaa woman's rules committee explaining in no uncertain terms that male practice players are causing the woman's game to become more physical.

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Either you're full of sh1t and making this up as you go along or you'll provide a link to a member of any ncaa woman's rules committee explaining in no uncertain terms that male practice players are causing the woman's game to become more physical.

You are focusing too much on being more physical. The position of the coaches is it makes the players better, quicker, the game more competitive, and yes, weaker players stronger. The committee could care less about more physical, but I am assuming that they are thinking that female practice players can do the same thing in helping to improve the players. Not a bad stance to take, excellent upper level thinking and not a bad move, imo. Again, there going to have to overcome conventional thinking here. Not an easy undertaking.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Old School

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No link eh?

What a surprise.

[Adam]

We've established that coaches are competitive and selfish (most people are, so this isn't bad thing, it's just how it is.) Most men's teams use their gray squads as defacto recruiting tools also. Tom Davis, when at Iowa, was noted for pulling the occasional gray squad member onto the team when he felt they could help the team in games. It's a player development program for walk-ons.

I think it's fair to say that if coaches thought female players could provide their teams with comparable improvement, then they'd use the females available to them and in the process develop potential scholarship athletes.

One other thought, and it's just a thought. With Title IX, a lot of schools are giving scholarships to female athletes who didn't even compete in the sport in high school. One example is crew, where a lot of colleges are just looking for female athletes they can give a scholarship to and teach them to row. So, along with the fact that any female basketball players on campus who could provide any sort of competition for the scholarship players are already on scholarship; most of the really good female athletes are already on scholarship for one sport or another.