I Don’t Want to Hear About It

I don’t want to hear it. Learn your place. The article itself said that crew is not one of the money sports like football and basketball. They don’t have the fans, and they don’t bring in revenue. You know what that makes them? A liability. It costs SMU money to have them exist.

It doesn’t bring SMU prestige, and it doesn’t look good for incoming freshmen. Since crew is a women’s sport in this era of Title IX, it does make them partially responsible for the dismissal of our world-class, beloved track and field team, may it rest in peace. How would Crew like to end up like them?

Most people would stop me here and accost me about my terrible view on Title IX. Right after their rant, I would calmly inform them about Title IX. Although its wording has nothing to do with collegiate sports, the courts have ruled that it has bearing on colleges.

There are three ways for a college to comply with Title IX, and only one of them is to have as many male sports as female sports. However, the wording of the other two ways is too nebulous for most programs to try to comply with, so in order to not be sued and lose on a technicality, most schools comply by equaling male vs. female sports.

So, instead of complaining about what they don’t get, they should be going to every football and basketball game around because they are the reason that carew exists, not the other way around.

They should be hoping and praying that football and basketball does well so that SMU has the money to spend on their little boats. Suck it up. Take it like a woman. I don’t want to hear about it.

Christopher T. Hill