Title IX killed Cal MAG

Update: Check the comments for reaction to this post. … Seems it’s far too simplistic to say “Title IX killed Cal MAG”

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Though the administration won’t admit it, the main reason Men’s Gymnastics is gone and Women’s Gymnastics survived is the the 1972 gender equity law known as Title IX.

International Gymnast – Dwight Normile:

… Cal’s 2010 numbers were way out of whack. Of its 24,796 full-time undergraduates, 53 percent were women. But it had 577 male athletes and 388 female.

Donors saved the rugby program, but only under the condition that some of the money would be used to help fund women’s gymnastics and women’s lacrosse. …

Cal: ‘We Have One Last Shot at Winning It’

Whether you love or loathe Title IX, it’s the reason the guys are gone, whether or not they raised their own funds.