Someone remind me...

[The Maroon Pug]

why we don't have a gymnastics team.. is it because of title 9 crap? Been watching LUS vs. Mizzou waiting on the Lady Dawgs bball game to start.

 

[KentuckyDawg13]

Same reason we don't have a swim team...lack of money ($$$).

 

[seshomoru]

Ummm...

You think Title IX, and act designed to combat sexual discrimination in collegiate offerings (educationally and athletically), is why we don't have a gymnastics team? Are you serious? We don't have gymnastics because of budget issues. It requires a large investment to build a facility and hire the right people to accommodate an SEC level program. Maybe not as significant as the stadium expansion or the football complex, but even the most die hard, man hating, gay agenda pushing, socialist liberal like myself knows those were funded primarily with private donations for a specific purpose and that's perfectly fine. We could add a gymnastics program (or any other for that matter) tomorrow if we had the money. Perhaps with the new money being infused into the athletic programs by the SEC Network and ESPN, there will be options down the road. Maybe, maybe not.

 

[The Maroon Pug]

I shall ask you to chill..forgot to add the *** after that statement.

 

[patdog]

Same reason we don't have a swim team...lack of money ($$$).

And lack of caring. I'm all in favor of maintaining the minimum number of non-revenue sports (men and women) we need for SEC and I-A membership.

 

[thekimmer]

That's easy. We cannot afford it.....

We have the smallest athletic budget in the SEC. The closest non-MS school is probably $10-20M higher and the 'big boys' have double and maybe triple our budget. It takes pretty much all we have to keep us competitive in the 3 revenue sports. We are required by the NCAA to sponsor 7 mens and 7 women's sports to be in D1. We do 7 mens and 8 women's. No doubt the one extra women's sport is needed to balance schollys for title IX. Bottom line, we cannot support any other sports without negatively affecting the revenue sports financially and competitively. Case closed.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

I thought we didn't have a swim team because Delta State has one. If either State or Ole Miss starts one it would pretty much kill theirs, so for political reasons it will never happen.

The other rumor I heard is that the Sanderson Center pool was built slightly too short to host official swim tournaments.

Title 9 is why a lot of schools have gymnastics. It allows more men's sports (e.g. soccer).

 

[Hammer Down]

And lack of caring. I'm all in favor of maintaining the minimum number of non-revenue sports (men and women) we need for SEC and I-A membership.

But you want to increase scholarship costs. That makes sense.