Which sports would you add

Will do.

Oh, the WRC final stage did not let me down. I am a fan of Loeb even though he is the prohibitive favorite when he races. I think he has class and has respect for his competition.
 
Screw that. Add a men's and women's hockey team. The schollies would equal out and it would be badass to catch a Longhorn hockey game.

There would be a following for this. You join the CCHA or the WCHA. Notre Dame, Wiconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, etc. as opponents.

Hook 'em
 
As someone else already stated, we would have SMU and Tulsa as opponents in this region. Also, if we add men's soccer, guess who else adds men's soccer. That's right, annoying little brother aggy.
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I will continue to call Title IX a joke when schools like Texas put advertisements in campus newspapers telling women who have never picked up an oar that they can get a full athletic schollie. I believe women's rowing has more scholarships than any men's sport outside of football and MAYBE basketball. That's what I call a joke.

Just about all women's sports offer more scholarships than their equivalent men's sport. I'm sorry if it offends people, but there are far more boys who are serious baseball players than girls who are serious softball players, but which sport gets more scholarships? There are other sports I could name that have a greater number of serious boys than serious girls, but that would further derail this conversation.

The numbers are even more skewed when you consider that some schools have dropped baseball, wrestling, etc. in order to balance the budget due to sholarship equalization. I have no problem having more women's scholarships in vb, gymnastics and figure skating, etc., due to higher female participation, but softball and hockey?

I would support Title XI completely if it only applied to subsidized sports. Texas used to have a separate fundraising arm for women's sports, but now they have been brought under the same umbrella as the men because there were so few donations coming in for the women. If I want to donate to the men's athletic department, let my dollars go to the men's sports. Maybe I made that choice [turn your sarcasm meters on] to help keep the men's programs afloat.

And yes, I do remember how it was for girls' sports in the 60s. Women in my family were going to college back when few women did. I've got daughters who are serious athletes, and I want them to have opportunities, too. That being said, I'm not a sexist just because I think Title XI has serious flaws.
 
Title IX has been a great thing for women and women's sports. I do not think it is a joke, save for one small 'issue' with it. There is NO sport for women to offset football. Football should be exempted and then all other sports should have to be 'even'.
Men's and women's vball. Men's and women's soccer. Baseball and softball. Men's and women's etc....

This would be fair and equitable to me. Also, it wouldn't rely on the % of women v. men as enrollment is concerned. The only exceptions would have to be all men's or all women's schools. I know that those still exist, and if I recall the reasons the scholarships are based on the ration of men to women in the enrollment of the school.
Title IX is no joke, but it just can't account for football.
 
Yes, Title IX is no joke, and has added great opportunities for female athletes. That is why I say we add men's soccer and women's mud wrestling teams. We will dominate.
 
Cross Country is a sport I've never understood being in demand at Texas. There is no visibility. Texas has never even produced a winning team in the sport. Its best finish in school history was 3rd in 1956. Walter McNew, did win the individual championship that year but Texas hasn't been back in the championship meet since 1996. That's fourteen seasons without even competing at the championship level. I'm sure we could do better than that with soccer, wrestling or even hockey.

I think individual sports should be evaluated every 10 years or to ensure performance and visibility are on par with the university's standards.
 
The main reason I state that Title IX is a "joke" is because of the obvious oversight in having football factored into the equation. Sometimes, one blunder opens the door for nit picking, and I probably wouldn't give the whole issue much thought if it weren't for that one major oversight. I'd be perfectly happy with a compromise that removes football but leaves in other programs (regardless of profitability) as long as there is an equivalent sport for each gender.

I pick on rowing because it gets more schollies than other sports that are much more popular, even in the NE. To me, it looks like it was added as an "equalizer," possibly at the request of schools like Texas that wanted a low overhead women's sport. As I stated before, I'd rather have Texas add other women's sports like gymnastics and lacrosse.

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You have all missed the sport, which if implemented and funded fully, could make UT another national championship contender, and would generate untold amounts of fan dollars-curling. We would be #1 right off the bat.
 
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