That's what was originally reported. But I thought I heard in the press conference Delaware denied this. They said because they were giving football a better opportunity, they felt it was only right (but weren't obligated to under Title IX) to also give women a better opportunity somewhere. And that somewhere was creating a new hockey team.
Nicole made some interesting comments about Title IX in the latest PodKaz which also leads me to believe Delaware was not under a Title IX obligation to create more women opportunities because they promoted the football team.
But of course, it's still great that they did it, whatever the reason.
Yeah, I guess I misread the USCHO.com article. Read it very quickly and apparently didn't absorb it very well...