Ilona Maher calls out her alma mater Quinnipiac University for cutting women’s varsity rugby to club status while adding a men’s distance track program. Quinnipiac established varsity women’s rugby in 2011 as part of a settlement in a landmark Title IX lawsuit.
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Additional information from a [petition](https://c.org/QwdfRVCfSt) to reinstate women’s varsity rugby
“Essential to ensuring Quinnipiac Athletics remains equitable, competitive and sustainable for the long term”
Really wild to use “equitable” when you’re adding another men’s team and demoting a historically dominant women’s team.
Seems like they’ve forgotten about the last lawsuit and might be time to remind them.
They say in their decision that this is in part Title IX compliance right? It’s unfortunate if that’s the case but on the whole Title IX helps more than it hurts women athletes.
Another perfect example for „Ok. We‘re doing what you want us to. Until you stop looking. Then we‘ll do what we want again!“
I played club rugby in college and we played Quinnipiac in tournaments. There’s a huge difference between club and varsity sports, namely that club sports have to raise almost every dollar of their funding and basically govern themselves completely. It’s exhausting. This is a bad decision.
Normal people are completely unaware of how insane the changes going on in college athletics are.
NIL has completely undone what was understood before. Where Title IX sits is uncertain, and it’s possibly even irrelevant now.
Just know, some college football players are *getting paid* far more than some NFL players are. It’s all about the money now. It the sport doesn’t generate revenue, then it isn’t safe.
I had to deal with so much Title IX bullshit when I was a NCAA D1 Athlete that’s it’s hard for me to fault a school for propping up a men’s team (yes, I accept your downvotes with grace), but I wonder why they had to do it at the expense of Rugby. Men’s XC is a cheap-ass sport to sponsor. Shoes for each athlete, maybe 2x a season if they’re lucky. A uniform. That’s about it, aside from obviously traveling to meets. Everything is is baked in like for the rest of the teams (locker room, trainers).
Manifesting a rich donor to save the women’s program. Maybe get rid of the least competitive men’s team to make room for the distance track team.
There’s a balance. It’s usually the reverse, cutting a men’s program to reduce what they are spending on men.
RIP ISU baseball