Quote Originally Posted by Bison 4 Life View Post
Then how's this for a solution. Take the 63 scholarships for football, only keep 63 scholarships for womens sports (or activities) and call it even? You see, football makes its own money (obviously), women's golf doesn't. Yet you want 21% of the seats in the stadium to go to students because they "pay the athletic fee". You better believe that if football took no money (nobody has still given a single figure as to how much of the football budget is payed by the athletic fee) and the students paid their own tickets (it happens), that a very good number of those seats would be full as is evidenced by the extensive waiting list for season tickets.


What number is that 4000 seats pegged to?
Title IX is about WAY MORE than just scholarships. The balance includes all resources devoted to the sports and that includes coaches salaries, recruiting budgets, etc. The dollars contributed to the Athletic Department by the students is a lump sum rather than sport specific. Essentially the same as the Team Makers donation which is targeted for scholarships (Team Makers members are not sport specific even though football is a primary driver). Where the 4,000 student tickets comes from must have to do with the capacity of the 6 sections allotted to students (although that seems high).