<p>"But data show that she is not the norm"</p>
<p>I hate to use the word "evolution" here as it may be misconstrued but, with girls, isn't the sporting norm changing? :) </p>
<p>"Many teams are having trouble filling rosters" Many? :) </p>
<p>"Sorry about your ER experience. I guess that doc forgot the part about "First do no harm." I hope he didn't purposely leave a nasty scar!"</p>
<p>If you like the spawning salmon look, I'm your guy. :)</p>
<p>On the outside not really visable anymore, inside a bump. Still beats being able to put four fingers through it when I did it. After that, I bought 3 more mouth pieces and put them everywhere. </p>
<p>"But the situation of dad's kid facing cuts for no good reason, simply because wrestling is a scapegoat for Title IX inflexibility, is grossly unfair."</p>
<p>Absolutely in agreement with you, except for the inflexibility part. Schools made a choice or choices based on what they wanted to accomplish. </p>
<p>"you were led to believe could help you gain admission to or $ for college, or to be on a college team,"</p>
<p>I have seen this far too often. I ran soccer programs serving upwards of 15,000 kids in my county. If I had a nickle for every body who bought into sports as the best way to pay for college, I could move in next door to bill gates. </p>
<p>Parents and kids bought this like snake oil, paid for special trainers, tournaments and travel to play a sport that has limited scholarships anyway.
As I said we've also experienced atheletic scholarships in my family as well, so I have a good idea of what it takes to be at that level. I</p>
<p>"and suddenly have it shut down to make room for a women's team that the women don't want!"</p>
<p>Which women? isn't this just an assumption? I know we looked at schools that didn't have a men's soccer program and crossed them off our list, so I would venture to guess the current student body wouldn't care if soccer was there or not because it wasn't there before. But what about 5 years from now? </p>
<p>At one time people thought women didn't want to vote either, did things change after the vote was established? </p>
<p>"After all, if the rep had lost out to the class brain in the 3rd grade spelling bee, he might carry a deep-seated grudge and put the kabosh on the NMFs and vals, too. But I doubt it."</p>
<p>That could be entirely possible. We are a collection of our experiences. Bad experiences in our past form a sublevel bias. So someone might look at an individual with a more critical eye in that situation.</p>