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Lafayette’s Title 9 problem should be easy to resolve. Do what Lehigh and Bucknell did. Change the status of Women’s Crew from Club to Varsity. Possibly give Womens Rowing a few merit scholarships. Leave Men’s Crew as Club (or Club Varsity as we do) But other than the scholarships, treat the men’s and women’s team the same. Men’s Collegiate Crew predates the NCAA by like 70 years, so it is not an NCAA sport.
The Patriot League needs to go to max scholarships and max bodies. I also understood from an interview with Coen, that the PL somewhat limits the number of guys who can dress for a game (explaining why CC was still in in the mid 4th quarter of Laf).
Of course, we need Georgetown to take the sport more seriously.
AI needs to stay the same. Will Laf, Buck, Col, HC allow redshirting? Maybe not wholesale (say 20 guys a year) redshirting, but maybe 3-4 guys a year.
I think we may have dressed freshmen for football as early as 1973. I remember a guy we recruited for wrestling who walked on to the football team and played a few games freshman and sophomore years missing the second half of those seasons (and the entire wrestling season) with a knee. Finally 75-76 wrestled but never recovered. Glenn Willard.
AND WE NEED LIGHTS.
