D1 Fees by Conference

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Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Title IX has to do with women having equal opportunity in sports.

It has nothing to do with officials' compensation for officiating those games. Officials are not college athletes. It has nothing to do with coaches' compensation. Coaches aren't college athletes.

Title IX DOES pertain to coaches' compensation. In fact, I believe that the Title IX regulations specifically include and address the compensation of coaches - Title IX requires "equivalent" compensation, but not necessarily identical compensation. The theory is that if a school pays a women's team coach $1,000 and the men's team coach $100,000, the female student athletes are not going to have an equal opportunity to benefit from quality coaching.

I suppose that a similar argument could be made for officials, but that would be a far greater stretch as officials play a far less significant role in student athletes' equal opportunity.