Title I X

[bearmen]

Title IX just celebrated its 30th birthday and their has been alot of print about this subject. Although great for womens sports, sure has been rough on the sport of wrestling. USA Today reports that of the 400 programs dropped because of title IX,170 were wrestling programs. I sure do hate that we lost SEC wrestling. Tennessee and Carson Newman are about all thats still around. Remember when we had Alabama, Auburn,Florida,Georgia,Georgia Tech,Tennessee,UT Martin,Florida Tech,Florida International,MTSU,LSU,Southern Tech,Kentucky and Miami Dade North and South.

What about all the great coaches that were in these programs. Gray Simmons,Swede Umbach,Lowell Lange,Tom Milkovich,Gary Snider,Fletcher Carr to name a few.

Does anyone remember when Auburn hosted the NCAA tournament? Sure wish we had these programs back for alot of obvious reasons.

Just wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts on title IX.

[Matmaid]

Please E-mail the Office of Civil Rights as they are reviewing Title IX . The USA Wrestling site gives addresses and email addresses for people to write . Their request states that those in favor of the current interpetation has alot more correspondance in to that office than our side at this time , so we need to get shaking.

info Link - http://www.themat.com/pressbox/pressdetail.asp?aid=5269

[Edited by Matmaid on 7/10/02 6:57P]