
Has Title IX Killed DePaul Men’s Basketball?
Article here. Excerpt:
'Before you accuse me of being a sexist pig, might I remind you that I have a wife and a daughter. And on the surface, Title IX is a good law. It allows women access to sports (as well as other areas). But when it is clearly slanted due to an agenda, it defeats the purpose of the legislation. Look no further than current DePaul Blue Demons‘ athletic director Jean Lenti-Ponsetto. She clearly abuses DePaul’s mens basketball team while giving the girls’ teams at the school everything they want and need.
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While the DePaul men’s basketball team plays in an outdated Allstate Arena, the girls basketball team was built a new on-campus arena. The softball team was built a new stadium and the soccer teams (and this does apply to the men’s team as well) has a new field. But I promise you that the field was built primarily for the girls. Practice times and access to facilities are actually slanted towards women’s athletics.
So in essence, DePaul is actually committing reverse-discrimination. The men’s basketball program is being discriminated against due to gender. While anyone with half-a-brain would realize that a strong and relevant men’s basketball team will fund everything else DePaul wants to do athletically, DePaul’s administration thinks Lenti-Ponsetto is the greatest thing since sliced bread. So much so that they recently extended her contract. When I’ve reached out to the school’s president, he’s pointed to the improvements of some of the lesser-revenue sports. Mrs. Lenti-Ponsetto has not responded to my correspondence (despite me being a men’s season-ticket holder and booster). Throughout the athletic department, she’s surrounded herself with her old cronies and yes people that reinforce how great of a job she’s doing. And apparently it’s working. No one will tell her that her agenda has ruined men’s basketball.'
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