Sex Discrimination In Sports

I am a soothsayer---big time. In the spring of 1968 I played baseball for a division III college in Iowa. One of our games was against Drake University and we played at the old Sec Taylor Stadium in Des Moines. For us Iowa boys it was fun. Sec Taylor was the home of a Class A farm team in the Three I League. It happened to be Drake's last game----forever. Lack of funds caused the program to fall by the wayside. Too bad, we said, but that's the way it goes. A couple of years later the same thing occurred at Iowa State University,a member at that time of the Big Eight conference. The baseball program, too, was dissolved. I saw something happening in Iowa and I knew it would spreadand it wasn't going to be good. There were going to be preferences and someone was going to have to suffer. Iowa had always been a bell weather state for women's sports, especially in basketball and track. On the federal level an act was passed calling for equalization of sports opportunities for women all across the country. It was called Title IX and it says:
Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 is the landmark legislation that bans sex discrimination in schools, whether it be in academics or athletics. Title IX states
"No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal aid."
The reason for writing about sex discrimination is that it is being practiced on a wholesale level but it is being aimed at the men.
This past week the University of Northern Iowa, a member of the Missouri Valley conference announced that it would be dropping men's baseball.
I saw this coming many years ago; just after Iowa State dropped their program. There are presently four division I universities in Iowa. Only The University of Iowa from the Big Ten provides baseball/softball for their men and women. As for Drake, Northern Iowa and Iowa State: yes, all have women's softball programs.
Point of thought since I live in Ohio and the football program literally supports all sports; if and when they begin to lose money you can guess with certainty which programs will be the first to go or we're going to have to be allowed coed teams. It would be the politically correct thing to do.