I don't get it. This feels like such an easy win for a multi million dollar university: fund your team! This feels like someone has a personal vendetta against the sport and team. It's truly more ridiculous than an 80s kids movie, but here we are. Absolute trash, booooo.
> According to the lawsuit, Peterson told the players that “if they had more fans, they would have more money for resources.”
um hello? There's basically one of those drive-through bank chutes from UO directly to Nike and back. (Also, in theory, in the next few years, the destruction of the Pac-12 is supposed to be putting Oregon in a position to receive gigantic stacks of TV money - I don't recall how quickly that kicks in for the new schools but it's definitely on their horizon.) This feels like a situation where Oregon was told they had to field X number of women's sports and now they are "fielding" exactly that number. Hopefully this lawsuit will force them to actually fund that number of sports.
I wish there were a way to force schools to reduce their football budget to cover these deliberate shortfalls when they occur, but I suspect that would just get them to short the other sports in different ways. But even if we can't fix this in ways other than lawsuits, these scenarios certainly put the lie to the position that these other sports "wouldn't exist" without football. Aside from the fact that you can absolutely fund them if you have the desire to (hello, Nebraska!), if a school has a robust football program and chooses not to put any money (AT ALL) into a women's sport, well, football isn't supporting it, is it?
W. T. F. It's almost 2024 and women are still treated like shit??? Arrrrgggghhhhh, feel like my head's going to explode.
I don't get it. This feels like such an easy win for a multi million dollar university: fund your team! This feels like someone has a personal vendetta against the sport and team. It's truly more ridiculous than an 80s kids movie, but here we are. Absolute trash, booooo.
> According to the lawsuit, Peterson told the players that “if they had more fans, they would have more money for resources.”
um hello? There's basically one of those drive-through bank chutes from UO directly to Nike and back. (Also, in theory, in the next few years, the destruction of the Pac-12 is supposed to be putting Oregon in a position to receive gigantic stacks of TV money - I don't recall how quickly that kicks in for the new schools but it's definitely on their horizon.) This feels like a situation where Oregon was told they had to field X number of women's sports and now they are "fielding" exactly that number. Hopefully this lawsuit will force them to actually fund that number of sports.
I wish there were a way to force schools to reduce their football budget to cover these deliberate shortfalls when they occur, but I suspect that would just get them to short the other sports in different ways. But even if we can't fix this in ways other than lawsuits, these scenarios certainly put the lie to the position that these other sports "wouldn't exist" without football. Aside from the fact that you can absolutely fund them if you have the desire to (hello, Nebraska!), if a school has a robust football program and chooses not to put any money (AT ALL) into a women's sport, well, football isn't supporting it, is it?