Well, at least the Lady Vols rowing team didn't get hit.
I remmeber when they started the rowing team there. It was all about trying to get a bunch of women's scholarships to balance out the football team to maintain gender equity. So rather than pick a sport other SEC teams compete and do vey well in (gymnastics), they choose a sport nobody cares about. They even recruited students to try out by saying no experience was necessary.
I think they shouldn't count the 85 football scholarships when computing gender equity. All it is doing is killing men's wrestling and volleyball. Soccer is pretty strong at the youth and high school levels, but the SEC doesn't have men's soccer.
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