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Originally Posted by DarkBritches
But we are also talking about long term economic momentum. You can't look at the current state of things and say that it will always be that way.
And it just makes sense that the way to make the most money is to have a lot of successful programs in both men's and women's athletics.
The way to make the most money at any given moment is not necessarily the very best way to wring the most money out of the system. Like the increase of volume in trading on the stock market. We should build up women's sports as a growing market. We should be entrepreneurs. It isn't so often that we can be entrepreneurs in an area where we can also be making a good choice for our daughters and their daughters and their daughters' daughters. But the future will be better for all because of Title IX, even if a few mens' programs suffer in the present.
And if I am wrong, so what? We will have tried for a better future and lost out. But if you never try for a better future, then you will never have a better future. Just more of the same.
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Here's the problem: if "a few men's programs suffer in the present," they don't generate revenue for the women. The majority of the casualties amongst men's programs have been non-revenue sports, but not always is it so. The lifeblood of women's sports is dollars generated from men's sports. If you hurt men's sports, women's sports will be worse off in the long run.