The News-Gazette · Feb 3, 2019
Tate | Sensible fixes to save sports
Illinois head coach Brad Underwood the second half of their NCAA college basketball game in Champaign, IL on Saturday. February 2, 2019. Illinois won 71-64. (AP Photo/Robin Scholz)Imagine all the things you'd like to change about sports.
Me too.
Like removing college football from the gender equity equation, and equalizing men and women scholarship numbers without Division I football's monstrous numbers (85).
It is imbalanced when, as one glaring example, 61 women's gymnastics Division I teams receive 12 scholarships per team while the dwindling lineup of 15 men's teams receive 6.3 scholarships. Illinois men's coach Justin Spring has done wonders with that limitation.