Why do we not field.............

Wrestling, mens soccer and gymnastics (both) teams............it seems to be pretty big across the high school landscape in Texas?

 

My opinion - They don't want women wrestling - Title IX, # of men vs women - $$$$

 

I really didnt mean women wrestling.........

 

Since none of those sports is revenue generating and since Title IX requirements are met no reason to.

 

I read somewhere that Texas made a commitment that all sports, men and women alike, would be treated the same in terms of training, travel, etc. There is a limit to how much money all the sports generate so there is a limited number of varsity sports.

 

What I meant was they don't want women to wrestle (prudes), so they won't have a men's team either.

 

Sports that are offered for both sexes don't need to be offsetting in numbers within that sport alone. It just has to be a total # of equal participants for the institution.

The real reason is that we can't compete with the elites in those activities. I don't doubt we could pay the bills, but I think those would be seen as big net losses in both revenues and wins.

 

Lacrosse - that is all