The purpose of Title IX is to bridge the gap between the number of males and females participating in sports at our educational institutions. Nearly everyone agrees women should be given just as much opportunity as men and not be discriminated against. That is what Title IX is trying to do. However, what it is doing in actuality is destroying male sports, particularly wrestling, at the college level. Title IX requires that the number of male athletes must be proportional to the number of female athletes. Often schools and colleges must drop men's sports to meet this quota since they can't afford to start another women's sport team. Title IX severely impacts the sport of wrestling in the United States.
             Nearly 400 colleges and universities had varsity wrestling programs in the 1970s. The year 2000 has shown the number of programs to have dropped to 23- 43 of them since 1993. Only 94 Division I programs are active in the United States compared to the 400 programs active in the 1970s. What happened was the well meaning amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Act called Title IX has forced colleges to cut men's programs, particularly wrestling and gymnastics, in order to keep the number of female and male athletes proportional. The NCAA defines proportionality as the male to female student body ratio to the male to female student athlete ratio.
             As for the argument of wrestling being unpopular and expensive to maintain and that is why it is being cut. Typically wrestling is not an expensive sport. BYU's program (now cut) was listed as the one of the least expensive of both the men and women sports at the college. The NCAA wrestling championships revenue is the 4th highest of all the NCAA sports. For the past five years, the Division I wrestling championships have been sold out. The idea that wrestling is too expensive to maintain or unpopular are both myths.
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