Women’s rowing provided Athletic directors an opportunity to help to try and save male programs.   In order to reach their quotas, colleges across the nation have given full scholarships to female walk-on’s who never rowed in their life. Many athletic directors and coaches have resorted to walk up to any tall and athletic looking girl and offer her a scholarship if she joins the varsity crew team.  This is what Title IX has come to; offering women full athletic scholarships to participate in a sport they have never participated in just to save the scholarship of deserving male athlete (Suggs 2003).

To state that women are less, or not as interested in competitive sports as men is heresy.  So federal policy causes Universities to eliminate men’s team and athletes or face expensive litigation (Thelin 2000). 

The other option instead of cutting teams is to offer new sports such as the example above in order to keep the men’s athletic program.  According to Congress' General Accounting Office, colleges eliminated 171 men's wrestling teams, 84 men's tennis teams and 56 men's gymnastics teams between 1981 and 1999.  Men's teams are being decimated because Universities must comply with Title IX laws, this is clearly unfair and not what Title IX laws set out to do.  (GAO 2001).

As discussed earlier, each individual school has three rules set up for each institution to become NCAA Compliant and follow the Title IX rules. By saying that, it is up to each individual school to decide which one of these three points they wish to follow in order to be compliant. They do not need to follow all three rules, however, it has become apparent that many of the schools follow all three of these points, which brings forth the problem that more women need to compete in sports and is now forcing male sports to dwindle:

• Point Number One: Schools use to be filled with more men then women.  The percentages used to favor men about 70/30.  However, that has slowly started to change.  It went from 70/30 to 50/50 and now today there are more women than men at University.  Due to this increase of women in college, colleges must cut men’s teams and create women’s teams to make the percentages proportionate to the enrollment (NCAA 2005).   
• Point Number Two: the underrepresented sex is easy to determine.  Title IX came into effect because the women’s right to attend University with the same opportunity as men were being violated, therefore, women must be the underrepresented sex. The underrepresented sex is now men and men are now being unfairly treated as a result of Title IX laws.  Schools must show that they are expanding athletic opportunities and are providing equal opportunities for both sexes.  If a school continues to provide more opportunities for women they have satisfied this requirement (NCAA 2005). 
• Point Number Three schools are being forced to include sports that are not as popular for women as they are for men such as ice hockey and lacrosse.  There is a large amount of men who participate in these male dominated sports, but in order to be in compliance there must be opportunities for women to compete in these sports also.  Since Title IX, many schools still offer these sports for women, but no longer do they offer them for men.  More men are interested in sports like ice hockey and lacrosse yet it is very easy for a men’s team to be cut, while a women’s team is kept because of point number three and Title IX compliance laws.  (NCAA 2005)