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UMass Lowell 2025-2026: Youth will be served

It's just not been a good season for any of the Lowell winter teams. WBB currently has the best record at 5-6, MBB is 4-8 but three of their wins are against D3 teams. Just an all around bad patch right now.
 
UMLFan said:
It's just not been a good season for any of the Lowell winter teams. WBB currently has the best record at 5-6, MBB is 4-8 but three of their wins are against D3 teams. Just an all around bad patch right now.
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The men's record is really 1-8 since those 3 games are really exhibitions and do not count towards their D1 record. They even lost to first year D1 New Haven
which is very bad. Time for a coaching change. The women's team is improved from the last few years.
 
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Will said:
Would probably have to add a men's sport for Title IX purposes, right?
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Not necessarily. The rule states:

An institution must meet all of the following requirements in order to be in compliance with Title IX:

  1. For participation requirements, institutions officials must meet one of the following three tests. An institution may:
    1. Provide participation opportunities for women and men that are substantially proportionate to their respective rates of enrollment of full-time undergraduate students;
    2. Demonstrate a history and continuing practice of program expansion for the underrepresented sex;
    3. Fully and effectively accommodate the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex; and,
  2. Female and male student-athletes must receive athletics scholarship dollars proportional to their participation; and,
  3. Equal treatment of female and male student-athletes in the eleven provisions as mentioned above.
From what I can find, Lowell's latest ratio was 57% male to 43% female for enrollment. I haven't checked the exact numbers of athletes to see the ratio, but it would seem to me that adding a women's hockey team would meet both 1b and 1c. Finding the money for scholarships for a women's team to meet #2 would likely be the bigger obstacle.
 
I know it's an exhibition game, but anyone actually excited about this game Sunday? I've got other plans anyway.
 
ScottK said:
Not necessarily. The rule states:

An institution must meet all of the following requirements in order to be in compliance with Title IX:

  1. For participation requirements, institutions officials must meet one of the following three tests. An institution may:
    1. Provide participation opportunities for women and men that are substantially proportionate to their respective rates of enrollment of full-time undergraduate students;
    2. Demonstrate a history and continuing practice of program expansion for the underrepresented sex;
    3. Fully and effectively accommodate the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex; and,
  2. Female and male student-athletes must receive athletics scholarship dollars proportional to their participation; and,
  3. Equal treatment of female and male student-athletes in the eleven provisions as mentioned above.
From what I can find, Lowell's latest ratio was 57% male to 43% female for enrollment. I haven't checked the exact numbers of athletes to see the ratio, but it would seem to me that adding a women's hockey team would meet both 1b and 1c. Finding the money for scholarships for a women's team to meet #2 would likely be the bigger obstacle.
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AFAIK, Lowell has been in compliance because of the enrollment disparity so there still isn't a Title IX need. Title IX has been construed many different ways over the years ranging from number of players, to number of scholarships, and at one point Title IX was tried to enforce an expendature under clause 3. Clause 1.3. is a hypothetical cause of action in order not to provide as many womens slots as the proportionality states but nobody has ever tried nor succeeded in court on that count. I don't know what the exact numbers are in the current but it may be that men are the un-represented sex (clause 1.1 and 1.2) but I'd have to run the numbers. There will always be a technical imbalance as the exact numbers ratios will never match and enrollments are generally dynamic. I'm not even sure what the scholarship/roster numbers are these days by sport to run this quickly.

It may be reasonable to view that adding a womens team would put Lowell out of compliance but I am not aware of any action with regards to Title IX that seeks to remedy imbalances against men. There are other schools with noted imbalances disfavoring males such as the private military academies (VMI) and the public military academies (Army, Navy, Air Force) though I have to imagine the latter is exempted from all Title IX laws.

There may also be specific NCAA membership rules that come into play with the regard of sport minimums by gender. Whatever Title IX mandates the NCAA may mandate on top of this though in the end, when they are in conflict, law trumps contract.

The other question has always been what if a Canadian institution decided to engage in US sports. I know there was one D2 school (Simon Fraser) on the west coast but presumably Canada has a Title IX analog. I would also imagine that D2 Hillsdale does not need to comply with Title IX as they do not accept federal dollars.
 
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UMLFan said:
3-2 win in OT for Lowell today. Hopefully they can build this into a good second half.
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Watched a little bit of this game, and there are 3 things i can say about it:

1) Richard cannot handle the puck AT ALL behind the net
2) I think he couldve stopped the second goal
3) This game should have been a blow out, but we just couldnt put the puck in the net until the 3rd. Lots of Grade A opportunities in the first and second, with nothing to show
 
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