View in Browser Top of the Queue Volume VII Newsletter #16 July 9th, 2022 Click on “View in Browser highlighted above in white lettering if the newsletter is not to scale, font is too small, or no images appear. THE GUM CHEWERS SONG As a build-up to the 1969 National Championship game, the media asked…
Title IX changed the rules for women Was the merger of the AIAW into the male-dominated NCAA worth it? 1970’s The History of Title IX 1980s In 1966, The University of Texas women’s budget was $700; by 1983, the budget was $1,000,000 with receipts of 1,850,000 dollars. 1990’s A Brief History of the National Collegiate…
Title 9 is concerned with athletic opportunities, while big-time football is concerned with marketing and university relations. Title nine is about benefits to student-athletes. Football is about benefits to the institution. In June 1968, Homer Babbage, the president of the University of Connecticut, gave a talk about the National Association of collegiate athletic directors in…