Duke Women's Lax 2025

Currently, NCAA allows schools to provide 12 full scholarships. While that is likely to change under the House settlement, it hasn’t happened yet.

Given Duke decided to give max scholarships in swimming, fencing, track as of 2012 to comply with Title 9, I am highly confident that Duke Wlax has received 12 full scholarships for many many years (or Duke would have first increased WLax to max). Furthermore, Duke spends just about the same on Wlax as it does on Mlax.

So I view Duke as fully funded - easily at same level as competitors and in excess of the Ivies.

Not sure why you think Duke is so poor. Duke basketball is unbelievably profitable. 43mm in rev with a huge endowment dedicated solely to hoop.

While things might change going forward, over the last decade Duke has had more than sufficient resources to excel in Wlax.

I think many great coaches will jump at the chance to coach Wlax at Duke. It is not wrestling or Men’s track by a long shot.
 
Deke1990 said:
Currently, NCAA allows schools to provide 12 full scholarships. While that is likely to change under the House settlement, it hasn’t happened yet.

Given Duke decided to give max scholarships in swimming, fencing, track as of 2012 to comply with Title 9, I am highly confident that Duke Wlax has received 12 full scholarships for many many years (or Duke would have first increased WLax to max). Furthermore, Duke spends just about the same on Wlax as it does on Mlax.

So I view Duke as fully funded - easily at same level as competitors and in excess of the Ivies.

Not sure why you think Duke is so poor. Duke basketball is unbelievably profitable. 43mm in rev with a huge endowment dedicated solely to hoop.

While things might change going forward, over the last decade Duke has had more than sufficient resources to excel in Wlax.

I think many great coaches will jump at the chance to coach Wlax at Duke. It is not wrestling or Men’s track by a long shot.
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I realize academics and athletics generally don't share the same pot of money (except for all the schools that charge their students exorbitant activities fees to fund the sports teams ... cough, James Madison -- $2,362 a year). But the idea of paying a bunch of lacrosse players -- the majority of whom come from families who can certainly afford Duke tuition -- while hiring is frozen across campus just doesn't sit well with me.

The ugly truth of the way universities have tried to comply with Title IX is that they've added a bunch of sports -- rowing to some extent and equestrian to a big extent -- that don't exactly have a lot of socioeconomic diversity.

Personally, I think colleges should bring back JV teams. They can add them in whatever sports are most popular -- soccer, basketball, lacrosse, etc. -- and try to meet Title IX that way.

Not that *anyone* is going to be in compliance with Title IX once they start paying football and men's basketball players 10 times more than they're paying women. But who's going to enforce it?
 
King of Defense said:
I realize academics and athletics generally don't share the same pot of money (except for all the schools that charge their students exorbitant activities fees to fund the sports teams ... cough, James Madison -- $2,362 a year). But the idea of paying a bunch of lacrosse players -- the majority of whom come from families who can certainly afford Duke tuition -- while hiring is frozen across campus just doesn't sit well with me.

The ugly truth of the way universities have tried to comply with Title IX is that they've added a bunch of sports -- rowing to some extent and equestrian to a big extent -- that don't exactly have a lot of socioeconomic diversity.

Personally, I think colleges should bring back JV teams. They can add them in whatever sports are most popular -- soccer, basketball, lacrosse, etc. -- and try to meet Title IX that way.

Not that *anyone* is going to be in compliance with Title IX once they start paying football and men's basketball players 10 times more than they're paying women. But who's going to enforce it?
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The real "ugly truth" is that while iniversities are under financial pressure from our own national government, expanded resources for mediocre team sports is not going to happen. I expect that would be the unanimous view of athletics and university leadership, as well as Da Commish and other Trustees.
 
King of Defense said:
Personally, I think colleges should bring back JV teams. They can add them in whatever sports are most popular -- soccer, basketball, lacrosse, etc. -- and try to meet Title IX that way.

Not that *anyone* is going to be in compliance with Title IX once they start paying football and men's basketball players 10 times more than they're paying women. But who's going to enforce it?
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That would meet the "opportunity to participate" idea behind Title IX, but "equal availability of scholarships" has also been part of the equation, thus the addition of women's scholarship sports (which are needed to balance the big scholarship load of football).

You are absolutely right, though, that the whole direct payments from schools to players thing will throw a complete monkey wrench into Title IX compliance and enforcement.
 
So, rematch with UVA on Sunday. They won pretty handily in the regular season, but maybe Duke learned some things in that game they can use to do better this time.
 
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