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It appears that the NCAA has taken the position that it no longer cares about the health and welfare of its counterparts at the high-school level. The slap in the face was the obvious "we don't care what the high-school people think" attitude that was apparent with the introduction of the deregulation of amateurism. The elimination of the ban on televised intercollegiate football games on Friday nights is a punch to our collective midsections.
Although the relationship between the interscholastic sports entities and intercollegiate sports always has been a positive endeavor, that bond surely is eroding. Will someone please wake up and do the right thing before these travesties take effect?
Robert E. Lehr
President
Connecticut Association of Athletics Directors
Proportionality out of whack
I have a request for all the proportionality proponents out there in the NCAA, who proudly point to the increases in both women's and men's participation numbers in recent years and proclaim that there is no problem with the current method of using quotas to enforce Title IX: Look at the sport of wrestling.
Participation in college is down due to hundreds of programs being dropped in recent years. Yet, over the same period of time, participation numbers among high-school and youth wrestlers continue to increase. I ask you, how can you possibly say there is no problem?
Illegal quotas are causing the loss of men's programs. Those are the facts. Want to talk about sports opportunities? There are now more women's athletics programs in the NCAA than men's. Yet women's participation numbers are nowhere near men's. Anyone see the picture here?
Figure it out, people.
Randy Simpson
Former Wrestling Coach
Capital University
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