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Posted Wed, May 08 6:06 am
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In response to The cost of an athlete at UCLA (cnet)
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Almost. UCLA has used the "Rowing Loophole" to end up with 56% of the athletes as female. The university has 58% female undergraduates so UCLA is a tad short of requirements.
What is the Rowing Loophole? Here's how it works. Head count for all sports with regard to Title IX is done in the fall. Rowing is a spring sport that needs about 20 to compete. Universities all over the country know that they're going to be way under for Title IX. It's especially true for schools with football. So, they recruit heavily in rowing. No experience is necessary. That's because there is nobody with experience. There are about 1,000 female rowers in high school. But in Division 1 rowing there are tens of thousands of female rowers reported to the government. UCLA reports that the women's rowing team has 91 members.
Pizza parties and the like are used to get women to show up for a rowing recruitment party. When my daughter was at LMU the rowing team went room to room in the dorms and grabbed women to go to the meeting. Once they show up to hear about this sport that requires no experience and to get free food they are counted. That's the number of people reported to the government. 90% of them never return. It's a scam, a well known scam, to satisfy the government. There really is no gender equality in D1 sports.
Michigan, always a good example, has 132 on the women's rowing team. Alabama has 120. They use this number to offset football.
The rowing scam is so well oiled it was the premise used for Lori Laughlin to get her daughers into USC. Nobody would figure that they were cheating by getting in with no experience because NO rowers come into college with experience. Especially on the west coast.
Here's a banner USC posts for the purpose of perpetuating the Title IX scam...
Go Bruins!
Arrive early. Wear Blue. Be loud.
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Posted Wed, May 08 10:32 am
(Edited Wed, May 08 10:35 am)
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In response to The cost of an athlete at UCLA (cnet)
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When you go to the site you'll see that UCLA spends an average of $149,122 per player on men's basketball per year on operating costs. Football is $74,265 and men's water polo is $7,512. So, it would appear, a lot of money doesn't need to be spent to win NCAA championships.
Other interesting items.
UCLA spends almost twice as much on women's soccer than men's soccer.
Softball has a higher spend than gymnastics. Probably because they travel more.
More than 50% of the expense budget is football.
Go Bruins!
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