Oh, just for the record, that “football is to blame, not Title IX” thing is four-fifths red-herring. It’s mostly an attempt to shift the blame for wrestling and baseball teams being shut down back onto those terrible patriarchal football players. The argument is that because football uses up so many men it uses up all the mens’ slots and other resources which would otherwise go to small mens’ sports. In other words, you have to agree that proportionality quotas are the norm before you can even blame football. Moreover, football often brings in more money than all other programs combined — funding small sports — and Title IX has destroyed men’s sports on many campuses where the school doesn’t even have a football team. “Blame football” is a feminist talking point that will never die, but that doesn’t mean we should buy it.