Study Proves Women Have the Advantage when it comes to College Sports Opportunities…So What?

I’m sure many of you would believe the above statement was a lie but it actuality it is true. A study was recently concluded by the College Sports Council on who has more opportunities in the college sport realm, men or women, and surprisingly women have the advantage.

The College Sports Council limited their analysis to nineteen sports where both men and women play. These sports include volleyball, basketball and tennis. The study was released on Wednesday and it determined that male high-school athletes in the sports that both sexes play have a harder time finding opportunities than women especially in landing college scholarships.

Eric Pearson the chairman of the College Sports Council commented: “We are trying to shine the light on a problem that exists where football frequently clouds the issue. We’re not trying to tear down the women’s numbers. We just want it to be even and fair. We support both men and women playing sports. We want more sports. We want more athletes to play, both men and women, and the NCAA’s rules make that difficult.”

Critics of the study have stated that the study ‘conveniently’ eliminates football from the analysis and focuses narrowly on certain aspects while leaving out additional factors including total money spent on scholarships.

Regardless of whether women have an advantage in college sports scholarships, men have more opportunities to succeed outside of college. Women sports players have fewer places to go after college and will make far less money than the man for doing so, so I do not understand what all the fuss is about. Women should be fussing that they have few choices to move on in the sporting industry after they leave college.