- Dec 11, 2010
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This is consistent with my experience.Respectfully - you are wrong. Title IX does not ensure the baseball and softball facilities are equal. It’s all sports across both genders. My baseball team may file a complaint, but not only on the grounds that the softball field is better.
“There is no requirement under Title IX that men’s and women’s teams in the same sports or like sports have facilities of the same quality. The analysis for the Title IX program component of the “provision of locker rooms, practice and competitive facilities” is an overall approach that compares all of the facilities for women’s teams to all of the facilities for men’s teams. Schools can emphasize different teams for men and women. If the softball field is lesser quality than the baseball field, a school can still comply if, for example, the women’s soccer field is better quality than the men’s soccer field.”
When I raised some concerns about facilities, access to coaching and quality of coaching the school quickly added bowling, gaming and pretended to have girls wrestling. Problem solved, nothing to see here.
(It also created coaching positions for AD’s wife since she got canned for being a lousy volleyball coach. The joke was on me.)
This year I asked that the outfield fence on the softball field not be taken down so the football team can practice there.
They do drills, hit blocking sleds and generally tear the crap out of the outfield. They then put the fence back up. Full stop.
They are going to “look into it”, lol
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