Are Colleges Gaming Title IX Compliance?

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Today's New York Times reports that college athletic departments often use deception to comply with Title IX. "Many are padding women's team rosters with underqualified, even unwitting, athletes. They are counting male practice players as women. And they are trimming the rosters of men's teams," wrote Katie Thomas, with reporting help from three additional Times staffers.

All of these things fall under the heading of roster management, a concept AB first covered in In between, then-Wisconsin head football coach Barry Alvarez (the school's current athletic director) drew AB's attention when he defended the number of walk-ons on his roster, which at the time was decimated by suspensions relating to a student-athlete extra-benefits scandal.

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