
Title IX keeps LSU men's club soccer fighting to stay alive
Article here. Excerpt:
'Despite the recent success and growth of the LSU women's soccer team, the abundance of men's talent is left to compete at the club level. On top of that, with the recent addition of the Baton Rouge Capitols, the lack of a college men's team forces the city's own pro soccer team to look at other colleges for recruiting purposes. The absence of a men's soccer team at LSU is mostly due to Title IX, which, ironically, is supposed to be equal opportunity promoting legislation.
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Jamie Krebs of Southern Illinois University's student newspaper, "The Alestle," reiterated Bentley's concerns: "While 5,800 athletic opportunities have been added for women in the past ten years, more than 350 National Collegiate Athletic Association programs involving about 21,000 male athletes have been terminated since 1991. That's roughly ten percent of the male athletes participating in that period."'
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