[donkey687]

Except, as an example, our sailing team has 12 women and 6 men.

I believe Stanford competes in both women's sailing and co-ed sailing.

Correct. There is no men's sailing.  Women's sailing by definition is 100% women and co-ed sailing is often 60% women. Given the weight requirements in a two person sailboat, the crew is usually female.  Sailing is a varsity sport at many Ivy league schools but sometimes only for women (i.e. Cornell and Brown). It is a bit of a Title Nine hack that you can make women's sailing a varsity sport and have one coach who also coaches the coed club team.  If volleyball (or wrestling) wants to be saved, they should align with the women's sailing team to counterbalance it. Sailing has a strong alumni base that can support the program and keep it nationally competitive as a club team and Stanford can keep women's sailing as a very cheap way to add 12 women as varsity athletes.  I think it can be done for $250k annually (assuming sailing alums step up and cover part of coaches salary and boat purchases that will be used by coed club team). The Stanford boathouse needs to be maintained for women's crew anyway so there isn't a lot of incremental expense allowing the sailing team to continue to use it.  Women's sailing has had great recruiting classes the last two years. The National Female College Sailor of the Year this year was a Frosh at Stanford. The first time a freshman has won that award.  They are well positioned to win national championships over the next few years.  As far as bang for the buck goes, I don't think the other female sports can get as many female athlete spots counting toward Title 9 for the dollar as sailing can.

[donkey687]

Except, as an example, our sailing team has 12 women and 6 men.

I believe Stanford competes in both women's sailing and co-ed sailing.

Correct. There is no men's sailing.  Women's sailing by definition is 100% women and co-ed sailing is often 60% women. Given the weight requirements in a two person sailboat, the crew is usually female.  Sailing is a varsity sport at many Ivy league schools but sometimes only for women (i.e. Cornell and Brown). It is a bit of a Title Nine hack that you can make women's sailing a varsity sport and have one coach who also coaches the coed club team.  If volleyball (or wrestling) wants to be saved, they should align with the women's sailing team to counterbalance it. Sailing has a strong alumni base that can support the program and keep it nationally competitive as a club team and Stanford can keep women's sailing as a very cheap way to add 12 women as varsity athletes.  I think it can be done for $250k annually (assuming sailing alums step up and cover part of coaches salary and boat purchases that will be used by coed club team). The Stanford boathouse needs to be maintained for women's crew anyway so there isn't a lot of incremental expense allowing the sailing team to continue to use it.  Women's sailing has had great recruiting classes the last two years. The National Female College Sailor of the Year this year was a Frosh at Stanford. The first time a freshman has won that award.  They are well positioned to win national championships over the next few years.  As far as bang for the buck goes, I don't think the other female sports can get as many female athlete spots counting toward Title 9 for the dollar as sailing can.