Perspixx and Bgdz,

You are preaching to the choir! Football should be exempted from Title IX, and we are starting an election year. ;) hint ;) hint. One of the political parties is trying to figure out a way to target the so called "NASCAR dads." How about letting them know that "football families" is an even larger group, and that we vote! "Soccar moms" have sons as well as daughters, so the issue is between gay women and men plus those who like us. (Wives, mothers, kids etc). If we unite, we win! ;D

What is needed is a petition to be gathered at the 1st home game of the season next year. It would call for modifing Title IX enforcement to read that each school should spend the same on mens and womens sports from OUTSIDE SOURCES ONLY. Money generated by a sport WOULD NOT COUNT toward Title IX. Therefore, a sport that generated more money than it spent would be exempt from Title IX. Since that only applies to football and men's basketball, you would effectively exempt them from Title IX.

The rules on how many non-revenue sports would be required for division 1A would then be rewritten, and everyone would be happy. :) Everyone meaning football fans ;) ;) , and men's wrestling fans.

FBfan

Great point, FBFan, and here's a sad little truth in American education today:

it far more addresses , is far more geared, and is far more successful with GIRLS than it is with BOYS.

It is boys, not girls, that need more rescue in today's schools. Too bad we couldn't have achieved equity and balance between genders in our schools rather than swinging from one extreme to the other.

Tarkio Kid and perspixx,

There's a newer post I started for the "GREAT SATAN" list called "TEAMS WE HATE" in the College Football General Forum. That is, if you want to put your lists there.

bgdz,

Cal dropped San Jose St. about 5 years ago when Tom Holmoe became coach. He felt that there was little to be gained by beating SJS, and much to be lost with a loss. He wanted a more "national" schedule. I can see the point in this, but this does HURT SJS. Cal and Stanford could help SJS by one of them scheduling a game yearly or every other year at SJS (2 for 1). Unfortunately not the way it works. Stanford still plays SJS every year, but they play at Stanford almost every year.

This would help struggling programs though as you've stated. This would help smaller "state" programs in all the larger states.
8-)

In the last 25-30 years Fresno State and San Diego State only retained the same conference affiliation, WAC, from 1992-1998. Have they even played non-conference games against each other? Methinks that someone is overhyping the historical significance of said rivalry. Fresno State's California rival is actually San Jose State..

YUP!

Granted, there is something to be said about Fresno State-San Diego State games in the early 1990s featuring Trent Dilfer and Marshall Faulk, respectively. SDSU and FSU were both charter members of the PCAA/Big West, but SDSU's football program competed as an independent for a few seasons prior to joining the WAC in 1978. If anything, FSU-SDSU was a fleeting rivalry created with the 1992 addition of Fresno State to the WAC.