Super Touchy Subject Men vs.Women in Pool

[justnum]

Make billiard room management and tour accounting a sport.

Can NABA make a competition to revitalize black owned or minority owned bars?

Even actuaries can release new data inputs for kids to talk about yearly.

Men are so lazy. White men are the worst.

 

[Flakeandrun]

I know you’re U.K./China based, but @BasementDweller is correct for the U.S.

It gets even dicier since the revenue sports (men’s college football and men’s college basketball) consume so many male scholarships, by the time Universities equalize, a lot of less popular men’s sports get dropped.

Notably: Despite being the most popular sport in the world, the U.S. can’t operate a men’s college soccer program. Meanwhile both women’s soccer and field hockey are going full speed at U.S. colleges. Since no (or few) universities are going to dream of dropping American Football, 85 men’s scholarships are going to be tied up there.

We’re now 5 decades/2 generations into the Title 9 era, and childhood interest in sports is still not gender equal. The end result being that it’s “easier” for an athletically interested 15 year old female to get a scholarship than an 15 year old athletically interested 15 year old male: there’s far less of them, competing for about the same number of slots, with a larger variety of options.

Really do get what you’re saying. To me there is nothing equality driven, let alone equity driven about this situation. When I say funding ‘grassroots’ , what I mean is generating interest, opportunity and options for all sexes, races and classes to participate at the earliest age. Offering scholarship opportunities is too late... It’s a placating measure aimed at a select few. Yes there may appear to be more opportunities and yes, I know which time anyone would demonstrate their preference to live in. But is this truly the right direction and is it a good enough effort? Would a thread like this exist if sexual parity was afforded at the youngest sporting setting?