Mean Green Report

[FirefightnRick]

IF, we were to have to add another womens' sport I would like to see a women's Mean Green rifle shooting/target team. TCU has one and would give us a natural cross town rival to help gain support, plus the expense would be minimal? Plus, one of this area's top rifle marksman just happens to be an NT alumnus who competes internationally as well as throughout the U.S. He works with me and it wouldn't take a lot to talk him into asst coach for the cause. Just a thought.

Rick

Edited February 17, 2006 by FirefightnRick

[NTEagle08]

Right now the scholarship max for Division I baseball is 11.7 scholarships, and it is to my understanding that they would have to add another womens team if baseball were added to stay Title IX compliant.

[H-towngreen]

Bowling, Archery, Horse riding, table tennis. I really don't care something that is cheap.

[NT80]

Bowling, Archery, Horse riding, table tennis. I really don't care something that is cheap.

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Emerging Sports:

An emerging sport is a sport recognized by the NCAA that is intended to provide additional athletics opportunities to female student-athletes.

Institutions are allowed to use emerging sports to help meet the NCAA minimum sports-sponsorship requirements and also to meet the NCAA's minimum financial aid awards.

For purposes of reviewing emerging sports for women proposals, a sport shall be defined as an institutional activity involving physical exertion with the purpose of competition versus other teams or individuals within a collegiate competition structure. Furthermore, sport includes regularly scheduled team and/or individual, head-to-head competition (at least five) within a defined competitive season(s); and standardized rules with rating/scoring systems ratified by official regulatory agencies and governing bodies.

The following are women's emerging sports:

Archery

Badminton

Equestrian

Rugby

Squash

Synchronized Swimming

Team Handball

[stebo]

Title IX is no longer the issue - President Bush has changed the standard for weighing Title IX from equalling the dollar to dollar graph into the campus interest graph. It passed last year, quietly, without a whole lot of hubbub. A school can get around the dollar per dollar/ship per ship quota system by having a series of online or mailout surveys scouting "interest" for individual sports (male or female) - if there is simply no interest for another female sport to match a new male sport then a school does not have to add the extra money/ships to the budget.

The new system works something like this: We add baseball to the mix. A survey is sent out to students asking for input on if any other sports have an interest from the student body in being added. If something like women's bowling has a significant interest from the student body then they would weigh several things... first of all, they would weigh the cost of adding it and there is a whole graph of whether or not the INTEREST (number of students wanting to add the sport) was worth the cost. If the cost was worth the sport; in other words, if there was significant interest in Women's Bowling - then the school could go down a number of avenues to deal with this cost. They could figure out a way to fit it into the current budget. The BOR could add a student service fee to cover it because the new government interest graph had shown that the fee was justified. Or, the most likely scenario - they would put out another survey asking whether or not the student body would like to have women's bowling, women's tennis, women's soccer, etc... and if somehow women's bowling were to beat out the standards - then the AD could choose to replace one of the current sports with the new sport - or they could go back to the drawing board and find a way to pay for it. Again, the point of this long ass explanation is that Title IX has been seriously changed for the future as of last year - it is no longer - one buck here, one buck there - it is now - Ok, we have a 55% average student body interest in women's bowling - we have to find a way to add it because we added baseball last year. It is all about equal OPPORTUNITY, but it does not have to be equally forced down our throats anymore.

BTW, it was the whole men's wrestling consortium up in the Pacific North/North-West that got this new definition of Title IX pushed through. They worked on it for years and were succesful. We no longer have to worry about Title IX as long as our school chooses to use the volunteer survey system. Schools can use the old model or the new system - it is up to the discretion of the athletic department.

Edited February 17, 2006 by stebo