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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 1671414, member: 3609"]
The Title IX enforcement folks look at the percentage of males/females at your school.  The ultimate goal is to have the number of opportunities in sports (scholarships, roster spots, etc.) come as close as possible to matching those percentages.  Ga Tech, VMI, NC State (because it is [U]the[/U] engineering school of NC) and the service academies are at a great advantage because they have a majority of male students, so adding just about any sport for women keeps them in good Title IX shape when they add a sport for men.  For example, NCSU could bring back its MLAX team and Ga Tech could start one "simply" by starting WLax teams at the same time.  UVa is now 54% women (it was over 90% men when I was there),   It would be tougher for us to add a men's sport because, even with the number of women's sports we have, the 85-scholarship football gorilla sitting in the corner pulls our M/ sports percentages down below the 54% for women.  Rowing is "football for women"; it has the largest roster and the highest number of allowed scholarships (20) of any women's sport.

Interesting note, just about all the big-name women's basketball teams practice against male players.  Those males count as female roster opportunity spots for Title IX purposes.
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