How Title IX saved OU basketball
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A sobering report on the attempt in 1990 to cut Oklahoma's women's basketball program. Odd that the reporter mentioned the threat of a lawsuit, but not that cutting a women's program without corresponding cuts on the men's side is a violation of Title IX, that laws actually exist that would probably have made that suit successful. Not so odd that the president of the university at the time changed his stance because he was worried about the bad publicity and not about the morality of the action. Title IX has forced many programs to look at their own lack of committment to having successful and well-attended women's sports rather than simply blaming low attendance on the sports themselves, and the result is almost always a net gain for everyone, including, at OU, one of the decade's winningest basketball teams that is now a credit to the school.
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- Basketball, SportsPLUS, College, Discrimination/Title IX, Student-Athlete, W College Hoops
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- college hoops
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