Men’s ASUFC Takes on Title IX

Arizona State University (ASU) should add a Division 1 men’s soccer team. As of right now ASU’s most competitive soccer team is a club team. There is only one reason ASU has no men’s soccer association and this is because they have to comply with Title IX ruling.

Before Title IX had become a rule, gender used to matter more than your performance in the sport. This means that even if you were an all-star athlete but you were a female then you would most likely be sitting in the bleachers watching. Why would ASU have more women’s athletics competing in Division 1 than men’s if Title IX is supposed to make equality for all? This is because the men’s football team and basketball team have so many participant’s that they have to take away other men’s athletics or add more women’s athletics to have the same number of total athletic participant’s. Both of these options work, but ASU decides to not have a men’s Division 1 soccer team because they don’t want to spend the extra money in adding another women’s sport as well. Wulf included a quote from Bunny Sandler when she says Title IX was "the most important step for gender equality since the 19th Amendment." In1972 Title IX became a law with President Richard Nixon signing (Bryjak). George J. Bryjak explains how the NCAA fought for the Tower Amendment which would have excluded men’s football and basketball from the Title IX coverage. Bryjak said they would do this because basketball and football both have a lot of participants; especially football because there is no women’s football team and the men’s team has over 125 players on average which causes Title IX to eliminate other men’s sports. This happens because none of the women’s sports incorporate that many participants in one par...

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...st sport worldwide. In order for soccer to be added to ASU’s athletic roster so would women’s rugby. This is due to the fact that ASU has to comply with Title IX ruling which states that men’s and women’s athletics need to have the same amount of participants.

Works Cited

Bryjak, George J. “The Ongoing Controversy Over Title IX.” USA Today Magazine 129.2662 (2000): 62. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Oct. 2013.

Infante, John “Which Pac12 School Should Start A Men's Soccer Team?” College Sports Scholarships. 10 Jan. 2013. Web. 30 Oct. 2013.

McAndrews, Patrick J. "Keeping Score: How Universities Can Comply With Title IX Without Eliminating Men's Collegiate Athletic Programs." Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal 1 (2012): 111-140. Academic Search Premier. Web. 29 Oct. 2013.

Wulf, Steve “Title IX: 37 Words That Changed Everything”. ESPN. 30 Oct. 2013