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I can only speak for basketball. I have/had a number of contacts in and around one of the better women's programs. (I know a former trainer for the team, I know the brother of a hall of famer, and my daughter went to camp.) The first I was aware of these male practice players was probably around ten years ago, and they were counselors at the camp. They were officially managers, but practiced with the women on the team. "They are bigger and stronger and make us better" according to one of the faces of the team. I would imagine that really good women who weren't in the WNBA would be able to be a practice player, but good luck finding one who is better than a good man. The trainer told me that during a championship year, the head coach set up a scrimmage between the University men's intramural champions and the eventual women's national champions. If I remember correctly, the intramural team won by 30+. Testosterone and other hormones are really effective! Did this help at all?

They are not complying with Title IX.

I didn't cherry pick anything. The article is from "statecollege.com" and I even included the point that you brought up.

This is possible, but I don't think it matters when it comes to legality.

True, but they look very very bad otherwise. https://www.statecollege.com/articles/psu-sports/how-penn-state-and-its-number-of-womens-athletes-adds-up/ This is shameful. You think they win a lawsuit? Rebuttal? WHERE PENN STATE STANDS So, how does Penn State — led by VP for intercollegiate athletics Sandy Barbour — fare in total participation by sex, when benchmarked with the other 13 universities in the Big Ten? Not great. Here is an overview of where PSU stands in the Big Ten Conference regarding athlete participation by sex, based on each school’s 2019-20 EADA report: Number of women’s teams: Penn State has 15, second in the Big Ten (Ohio State has 19). Men’s vs. women’s teams: In the Big Ten, only Penn State has more men’s teams (16) than women’s teams. Number of female participants, counting male practice players as women: Penn State is ninth in the Big Ten, with 426. The leader board: Michigan (573), Ohio State (555), Wisconsin (465), Minnesota (452), Rutgers (443), Michigan State (438), Iowa (432) and Nebraska (430). Number of female participants, NOT counting male practice players: Penn State is tied for ninth in the Big Ten, with 398. The leader board: Michigan (530), Ohio State (522), Wisconsin (465), Michigan State (438), Minnesota (435), Iowa (417), Rutgers (414), Nebraska (405) and then both Penn State and Indiana, at 398. Discrepancy between male athletes and women athletes, counting male practice players: Penn State ranks 14th in the Big Ten, with the widest gap between male participants and female participants, at 114 — 540 male and 426 female (28 of whom are male practice players). Discrepancy between male athletes and female athletes, NOT counting male practice players: Penn State ranks 14th in the Big Ten, with the widest gap between male participants and female participants, at 142 — 540 male and 398 female. Discrepancy between the proportion of women undergraduate students and the proportion of women athletes (per #1 of the three-pronged Title IX compliance test), NOT counting male practice players — which I think is the fairest metric, because I do not believe the math that 1 male practice player = 1 female undergraduate student: Penn State ranks 14th in the Big Ten, with a 5.9% difference between female athletes (41.2%) and female students on the Penn State University Park campus (47.1%). Michigan ranks a close 13th, at a 4.8% difference. Even when Penn State counted male practice players as females, it still has the biggest gap in the Big Ten (3.1%) between female students and female athletes (28 of whom were really men).

Ha! Brooks laughs at you! Shows how little you know! It was Vyvanse, not adderall!

Yes, just like I said, and PSU has some of the worst discrepancies between male and female athletes in the B10. Seems a good lawsuit would be able to force their hand without much difficulty.

The "forever 49" club.

He's 28 like I am 39.

Almost no school is looking to spend more money than they have to. Iowa was pretty much forced into it by a lawsuit, and it likely could take the same thing to do so at other P4 schools. Further complicating things are all of the crazy factors in college sports today: realignments, NIL, etc. I would imagine few P4 schools are going to be adding more athletic programs until stuff gets a bit more settled.

Bellator fighter Valerie Loureda is now "Lola Vice." On the men's side, don't forget world Greco medalist G'Angelo Hancock is now "tavion Heights." Bobby Steveson had another name as well.

Maybe, but it could also be argued that he was at his best while also wrestling at Ohio State.

My lip reading isn't what it should be for being old and somewhat deaf. However, well placed sources say it may have been something about reopening his recruitment. Can anyone else comment on this?

Gable started as an assistant at Iowa.

Too late to edit my previous post, but what does Correa say to the camera after his match?

I'm not sure if this is going to be the issue that I thought it would be for Michigan..

I though he maybe altered the shirt?

Even if wrestled in 2020, I feel he has a tough time winning. If I remember correctly, he tore an ACL in B10 final and was struggling in practice. I could easily be thinking about a different year though.

Which redshirt? Didn't he have 2 or 3?

Look at the last 24 hours of posting...less than one page.

Pretty good chance that most guys who are 4x B10 seeds and 3x #1 seeds are favored to win the tourney. He appears to be the only 4x B10 champ to not win NCAAs. Is he the only 3x #1 to not win? @Jason Bryant ?

Well, you did say "the years he could have been an NCAA champ." I would assume one of the years he won B10, but prob his best shot was 2019. He had a bad draw (or it looked that way at the time) in 2019: 1st round: the funky returning AA Joe Smith, who happened to not really be at his peak (but on paper, not a great first round for the #1) 2nd round: Bullard from NC State. Ok, not exactly prime David Taylor level of greatness... Quarters: prob the best version of Mekhi, fresh off his U20 world title. Marinelli loses 3-1 in a match where he definitely had his chances. Semis: He would have had the Wick/Marstellar winner, who ended up being Wick. Prime Mekhi beats Cenzo Joseph 7-1 in final. I'm not saying Marinelli should have won that. Mekhi is the reason he didn't, not the draw. But that was not a great spot in the bracket. Starocci had a tougher one (on paper) last spring, but also may have ended up wrestling a couple guys (Mekhi, Griffith) who were past their prime and also played to Carter's strengths. The difference is that Carter won. He's just better all the way around.

I don't think Jax will be at Lehigh; and if Bo goes to PSU, I don't think he will be turning the program around!

He was a 4x Big 10 champ, right. That is pretty impressive. Most of those guys prob win at least one title. Kind of surprising he didn't get at least one, tbh. I just looked it up, and honestly not sure if it is 100% accurate, but I believe there are 16 4x B10 champs and he is the only one not to win NCAA.