As much as Title IX has done for women's sports it is having a devastating impact on men's sports. Instead of adding women's athletic opportunities to satisfy gender quotas, colleges are destoring men's opportunities in athletics by dropping many men's sports, such as wrestling, men's gymnastics, and men's swimming, some have gone as far as cutting football programs. Since 1991, 20,800 male sports have been eliminated while only 5,800 women's sports have been added. Title IX has now turned into a gender quota, something that was never intended by Congress (5).

Another big problem with the gender quotas is football, it has an exceptionaly large all-male roster without any female counterpart. It takes up to three or four female teams to offset football. A dozen of colleges have already cut the sport. "Without the gridiron tradition, what happens to the marching band? Drill teams? Homecoming? Where do they invite alumnii for fund-raisers?" states Jan Golab(5). So instead of dropping football, most colleges and universities are deciding to cut Olympic sports, such as wrestling, swimming, and gymnastics.

Between 1981 and 1999, NCAA and NAIA colleges got rid of forty percent of their wrestling teams, that is one hundre seventy one teams. U.S. freestyle wrestlers were unsucessful in winning a single gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney Austrailia. This has not happened since 1968 (6). Everyone did not just let the ORC drop men's sports without fighting it. "Some fight, but few coaches or athletes can afford to launch a legal challenge," says California State University of Bakersfield's wrestling coachT.J. Kerr (5) Kerr sued when CSUB chose to cut the wrestling program.While thier case goes through the courts, a restraining order has kept the team alive. Stephen Neal, a wrestler that was to be cut, went on to become a two-time undeafted NCAA National Division 1 heavyweight champion, a gold medalist at the Pan American Games, and the 1999 World Championship.

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