Very good post Kiragirl. As beneficial as it has been for women and equality rights, it comes at a great cost to our schools all across the country. There are only a handful of schools across this country that have a positive bottom line and many schools cannot afford the cost of the athletics.
Don't get me wrong, it is the right thing to do, but it now works almost in reverse in the sense that there are many schools that have had to drop men's sports to accommodate Title IX rules.
And, as stated, it is the men's sports that drive the bus from a revenue point of view.