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Coastal Carolina University announced today the discontinuation of the men's cross country/outdoor track and field programs, effective at the conclusion of the 2013-14 season.

Coastal Carolina University will compete in a full schedule of events in both men's cross country and outdoor track and field during the 2013-14 season, including the Big South Championships and any NCAA postseason opportunities. Coastal will additionally honor the scholarships of those student-athletes who wish to continue their education at CCU beyond the 2013-14 season.

The Coastal Carolina Administration and the Board of Trustees authorized this step in order to reach the optimal combination of sport offerings that would provide quality opportunities to CCU student-athletes while remaining in compliance with Title IX and exercising fiscal responsibility.

Coastal Carolina has a legal obligation to comply with the federal Title IX law in relation to gender equity. Also, in response to these challenging financial times, the University Board of Trustees made a commitment to reduce its operating budget by $1 million for the 2013-14 academic year rather than raise in-state tuition. As part of the budget reduction, the Department of Athletics was directed to cut $250,000 from its operating budget. Meeting these new budgetary guidelines would not be possible without a significant change. The elimination of men's cross country/track and field programs best addresses both of these issues.

Title IX requires that the gender ratio of an institution's athletic programs reflect that of its student body. The total female/male student population at CCU is 54 percent female to 46 percent male. CCU introduced Women's Lacrosse as an NCAA sport in 2013, which added 25 female student-athletes and demonstrated a continual expansion of athletic opportunity for the underrepresented sex.

For total Title IX compliance, further steps were necessary. Approximately 50 student-athletes participate in the men's cross country/track and field programs annually. Discontinuation of the program will ultimately help Coastal reach full Title IX compliance.

"This decision is a very painful one for me, as a former student-athlete, and for the whole Coastal Carolina community," said CCU Director of Athletics Hunter Yurachek. "We understand the impact it will have on the student-athletes and their families, which is why we will continue to honor their scholarships.

"I am extremely proud of the way our current and past men's cross country/track and field student-athletes have represented Coastal Carolina University. I am also grateful for the numerous contributions and accomplishments of our men's cross country/track and field athletes both on and off the competition field. This decision is in no way meant to diminish the legacy of our men's cross country/track and field student-athletes, and we will forever consider you Chanticleers."

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SuperHornet wrote:That's the chicken-[bleep] way most schools use to "comply" with Title IX, but it's decidedly NOT in keeping with the SPIRIT of Title IX.

Add some women's sports, Mr. AD! Liberty's been adding women's sports left and right for the last five years or so. Why can't you do the same? Surely SC isn't in the same straits Cali is!

SuperHornet wrote:That's the chicken-[bleep] way most schools use to "comply" with Title IX, but it's decidedly NOT in keeping with the SPIRIT of Title IX.

Add some women's sports, Mr. AD! Liberty's been adding women's sports left and right for the last five years or so. Why can't you do the same? Surely SC isn't in the same straits Cali is!

clenz wrote:This happens because Title IX is a chicken shit policy that doesn't work...in fact it is detrimental to pretty much every single school in the nation outside of the B1G and SEC.

Title IX does nothing to promote womens sports...it adds costs to the athletic department. Womens sports lose money in 99.999999999999% of schools across the nation....the only ones where womens sports might break even total are UCONN, Baylor, Tennessee.....and...Standford? That's only because of their womens BB programs.


Title IX forces schools to add womens sports to a level of such extreme to make up for the difference that football causes (football should be excluded from Title IX and it might work) that the only way to make up for it is to cut mens sports.

JayJ79 wrote:

clenz wrote:This happens because Title IX is a chicken shit policy that doesn't work...in fact it is detrimental to pretty much every single school in the nation outside of the B1G and SEC.

Title IX does nothing to promote womens sports...it adds costs to the athletic department. Womens sports lose money in 99.999999999999% of schools across the nation....the only ones where womens sports might break even total are UCONN, Baylor, Tennessee.....and...Standford? That's only because of their womens BB programs.


Title IX forces schools to add womens sports to a level of such extreme to make up for the difference that football causes (football should be excluded from Title IX and it might work) that the only way to make up for it is to cut mens sports.

and how many mens CC/T&F programs break even?

BlueHen86 wrote:

JayJ79 wrote: and how many mens CC/T&F programs break even?

Why does that matter?

JayJ79 wrote:

BlueHen86 wrote:
Why does that matter?

clenz's argument against womens sports is that most of them don't break even financially. but neither do many mens sports (outside of some football and basketball)

SuperHornet wrote:That's the chicken-[bleep] way most schools use to "comply" with Title IX, but it's decidedly NOT in keeping with the SPIRIT of Title IX.

Add some women's sports, Mr. AD! Liberty's been adding women's sports left and right for the last five years or so. Why can't you do the same? Surely SC isn't in the same straits Cali is!

SuperHornet wrote:That's the chicken-[bleep] way most schools use to "comply" with Title IX, but it's decidedly NOT in keeping with the SPIRIT of Title IX.

Add some women's sports, Mr. AD! Liberty's been adding women's sports left and right for the last five years or so. Why can't you do the same? Surely SC isn't in the same straits Cali is!

SuperHornet wrote:That's the chicken-[bleep] way most schools use to "comply" with Title IX, but it's decidedly NOT in keeping with the SPIRIT of Title IX.

Add some women's sports, Mr. AD! Liberty's been adding women's sports left and right for the last five years or so. Why can't you do the same? Surely SC isn't in the same straits Cali is!

SuperHornet wrote:That's the chicken-[bleep] way most schools use to "comply" with Title IX, but it's decidedly NOT in keeping with the SPIRIT of Title IX.

Add some women's sports, Mr. AD! Liberty's been adding women's sports left and right for the last five years or so. Why can't you do the same? Surely SC isn't in the same straits Cali is!

Ibanez wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:That's the chicken-[bleep] way most schools use to "comply" with Title IX, but it's decidedly NOT in keeping with the SPIRIT of Title IX.

Add some women's sports, Mr. AD! Liberty's been adding women's sports left and right for the last five years or so. Why can't you do the same? Surely SC isn't in the same straits Cali is!

We just added women's lacrosse.

dbackjon wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:That's the chicken-[bleep] way most schools use to "comply" with Title IX, but it's decidedly NOT in keeping with the SPIRIT of Title IX.

Add some women's sports, Mr. AD! Liberty's been adding women's sports left and right for the last five years or so. Why can't you do the same? Surely SC isn't in the same straits Cali is!

CCU doesn't have 40,000 on-line students paying 10x what they should pay for mostly worthless degrees.

Liberty On-line is one of the biggest money-making scams in college education - and has allowed Liberty to be profitable and do things like you are saying.