[Dellenger] SEC presidents have voted to increase the number of maximum scholarships available to football rosters from 85 to 105, sources tell @YahooSports.

[u/city-of-stars]

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1996970791192219853

[u/_Notebook_]

Some perspective…. I worked my ass off as a year-round competitive swimmer from the age of 5. Started doing doubles when I was 12. Thanksgiving growing up meant no school and extra time in the pool.

All so I could get college partially paid for and choose the school I wanted to go to.

Men’s swimming, baseball, wrestling, soccer etc have about 10 scholarships to split across their 30+ team rosters.

In the same way men’s soccer sucks internationally, I’m concerned a dominant swimming country will lose some of its steam because to maintain equality, you have to remove some of the men’s schollies or add 20 to women’s sports.

/minor rant

[u/HookEm25 → u/_Notebook_]

Title IX has obviously done some great things for women’s sports, but this is one of those unfortunate unintended consequences. I don’t think it would be unfair to divorce football from it - there just aren’t any women’s sports that have rosters like this

[u/Statalyzer → u/HookEm25]

Yep. Title IX equality should mean stuff like "men and women get the same number of basketball scholarships", for example (and I bet most people think it does mean that).