NCAA Conference Realignment

[CubbieBum]

And how is Nancy Pelosi "active in the title IX issue?"

 

You couldn't find out now by google searching it because she is Speaker of the House but prior to being named Speaker she was mainly known as a Congresswoman who was extremely outspoken and the leader in Congress to make no changes to Title IX. She is uniquely able to speak out because she comes from one of the most democratic districts in the country and thus can be very liberal on controversial topics without worry of losing re-election.

 

http://www.house.gov/pelosi/TitleIX.html

 

That was mainly what she spent her time on before getting national exposure in her bid for the Speaker. In using Lexis Nexis to search for politicians involved in Title IX her name was in almost every single entry found.

 

As a Senator. Who you interviewed. For an undergrad paper while at a smallish University in Indiana.

 

Just admit you used some Lexis/Nexis quotes from Pelosi, and that you didn't actually interview her, and that you don't know what her job is, and we can go back to your bad argument.

 

Or I did interview her before she was a big name in the national media. I'm not Skyballer and my prof checks every source used.

 

She was the House Minority Leader from 03-07. Everyone knew who she was because she was on TV shrieking about Iraq every 24 hours (which is what got her attention for Speaker, not Title IX, which no one cares about), so unless you were in in your Telecom class in 2002, I doubt she found time for some college student not in her district to shoot the ish about women's sports. You didn't even know she wasn't a Senator. Your arguments might have some more heft if they weren't riddled with factual error after factual error.

 

I did interview her and as she said Title IX is an issue she cares a lot about and welcomes anyone who is writing on the issue to contact her. It took 4 phone calls to her office and three e-mails to get her to do it. I'm a journalist who would never break any ethical code and to be honest am very pissed off you would accuse me of lying and taking quotes for a story I didn't write and pass them off as my own. That is the worst thing a journalist could due save making up the quotes entirely.

 

I did know she was a Congresswoman hence why she is Speaker of the House. It's called a typo when you are making a quick post right after getting home from work and trying to figure out all the football scores and fantasy scores at the same time.

[cubsfan]

I'm trying to imagine Penn State's womens basketball coach going up to Joe Paterno and bitching about what the divisions will be.

[SouthSideRyan]

Oh, Bum misspelled congresswoman as senator. My apologies

[CubbieBum]

Post the paper and let us all read it.

 

Would if I could but almost every source allowed the interview under a promise that only myself and the prof would get to read the paper.

 

As for the money. I did a Title IX story on Ball State and found on the US Department of Education a page with all of Ball Stat's athletic spending and revenue broken down by sport (can't find it now their site changed). Men sports did make 93% of all the revenue. However, only men's basketball and two minor sports (men's tennis and one I can't remember) turned a profit that year. Of the women 200k revenue basketball accounted for 170k or so of it (going off memory). The team spent about 200k that year which isn't good but that ratio was actually better than the athletic department's overall ratio. That was the W-bball's first great year. Judging by more attendance and a NCAA Tournament birth they likely made a profit last year. Football was by far the worst losing close to three million (year before the first bowl game).

[CubbieBum]

Oh, Bum misspelled congresswoman as senator. My apologies

 

Because typo only means a misspelling?

[XZero771679666304]

Oh, Bum misspelled congresswoman as senator. My apologies

 

 

Quit nitpicking typos, you're making him seem ignorant.

[SouthSideRyan]

Oh, Bum misspelled congresswoman as senator. My apologies

 

Because typo only means a misspelling?

 

: an error (as of spelling) in typed or typeset material

 

Merriam Webster seems to think so.

[Magnetic Curses]

i want to hear more about the story!

[UMFan83]

Oh, Bum misspelled congresswoman as senator. My apologies

 

Because typo only means a misspelling?

 

: an error (as of spelling) in typed or typeset material

 

Merriam Webster seems to think so.

 

He must have typo'd the word typo.

[imb]

this is fantastic, a 90 page paper, hahahahaha. jason alexander's book wasn't even that big.

[bukie]

this is fantastic, a 90 page paper, hahahahaha. jason alexander's book wasn't even that big.

I guess 90 page paper is a typo for "quick check on wikipedia".

[CubbieBum]

this is fantastic, a 90 page paper, hahahahaha. jason alexander's book wasn't even that big.

 

Now that is a good joke.

 

And it was one of those incredibly idiotic and pointless 90 pagers where 12 was the paper and 72 was the bibliography and explanation of your sources.

[Derwood]

who counts their biblography and end notes in their page count?

[Butterscup1679666578]

I did know she was a Congresswoman hence why she is Speaker of the House. It's called a typo when you are making a quick post right after getting home from work and trying to figure out all the football scores and fantasy scores at the same time.

 

Yeesh, imagine what you'd be like in 10 years when you get home from work to your wife and kids and have to do real [expletive]. You'll probably be a blabbering, drooling buffoon.

[imb]

lol wife and kids

[CubbieBum]

who counts their biblography and end notes in their page count?

 

When it's required everyone does. The prof said right from the start no A will be given unless its 90+ pages and at max the actual paper will only be counted as 12.

[Magnetic Curses]

shut up, he's going to be married and have a hundred kids so he can have a hundred friends and no one can ever say no to being his friend.

[TruffleShuffle]

Just to repeat, I'd be interested in any evidence that Women's sports swayed divisional or conference realignment when it ran counter to the best interests of revenue sports.

 

And as an aside, it's insanely easy to justify for the AD's, because football and (to a lesser extent) basketball pay for the other sports. It's not stiffing the non-revenue programs if it gives them more money, or keeps them alive.

 

Might want to do research on what sports actually turn a profit. Football would be at the bottom of the list. They cost millions for 90% of the schools and only the top 35-50 actually make money each year. Women's basketball, after men's basketball, averages the most profit for a large majority of schools. I wrote a big story on this topic for our student paper and FOI'ed a lot of documents detailing what was spent and what was earned.

 

the top 35-50 make massive amounts of money, though. penn state supports its entire athletic department with the profits from football.

 

the other side of the coin is i-aa football and a some of the lousy teams from minor conferences in I-A. i know that holy cross loses something like $1.5M on football each year. it's not exactly a surprise when i-aa schools cut football; if it's not generating much alumni support or interest then it's kind of pointless.

[CubbieBum]

Yeah I'm going to vote for a mod to lock this thread. It has become a let's bash on the bum thread because we all love to talk about him. I understand. It's cool. I would be jealous too and want to put me down so I could feel better about myself.

[TruffleShuffle]

i would like to vote for "leave thread open so that the bum keeps embarrassing himself" to cancel out the bum's vote.

[Magnetic Curses]

da bum

[CubbieBum]

Found the site with all the info again. It's a wonderful tool.

 

http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/GetOneInstitutionData.aspx

[CubbieBum]

i would like to vote for "leave thread open so that the bum keeps embarrassing himself" to cancel out the bum's vote.

 

My vote counts for more because I'm so awesome.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

For the third time, is there any evidence that an actual or proposed conference/division realignment was influenced by the interests of women's sports, at the expense of the best option for revenue sports?

[Magnetic Curses]

oic