Title IX: Past its Prime?

Two recent articles highlight the problems of title IX:

From ESPN:
Can male athletes sue now?

And from the NYT:

In the middle of the meet, back here on the James Madison campus, the university had announced it was eliminating men's cross country and track, along with eight other, mostly men'’s, sports to comply with Title IX, the federal gender-equity law.

"“Title IX was created in 1972 to prevent sex discrimination, and it was needed,"” Jennifer Chapman, a senior on the womenÂ’s cross-country team, which is not being eliminated, said four days later as she led a protest rally of 400 students on campus. "“But look what'’s happening now. We rode the bus home from Pennsylvania for four hours, 14 guys and 19 girls all crying together. How is that supposed to have been Title IX'’s intent?"”...

...Jacob Torok, a sophomore swimmer, sat in the convocation center last month as officials announced the sports that would be terminated. Eight months earlier, as a freshman at the University of New Hampshire, Torok had received similar news when officials there did away with the men'’s swimming team in a wave of Title IX-related cuts.

"“This time, I thought I was having a nightmare and I'’d wake up,"” said Torok, who spurned scholarship offers from two other universities when he transferred to James Madison. "“But now I wonder how this can keep happening."”

-------------------------
It should be noted that James Madison and New Hampshire don't have Division I football teams (they field Division I-AA teams). They don't have 90,000 fannies in the seats on Saturdays, not do they have 120 players on their full rosters. It also means no weekly games on TV, unless they get a local channel or CN8 once in a while.

Apparently Title IX means women's sports are staying because they have rights, but men's sports get the shaft "just to comply."