To cut a men’s team to help make way for a women’s team doesn’t sit well with many non-revenue producing men’s teams.

“We’re a small revenue sport and because we don’t bring in the money, we’re easily expendable,” wrestler Scott Owen said. “When it comes down to meeting quotas, it is often times easier to cut a men’s sport than fund a new women’s sport.”

To cut a men’s team to help make way for a women’s team doesn’t sit well with many non-revenue producing men’s teams.

First-year baseball coach Ed Mathey said that he is all for equality in sports. But he also said he hopes Title IX doesn’t shut down teams that his colleagues coach.

Jay O’Malley, a freshman wrestler, thinks that it is great that equality has happened, but he doesn’t agree with the actions that are being taken to make all of this possible.

“I think it is reverse discrimination with taking away sports,” O’Malley said. “It would be different if [schools] were adding women’s sports, but taking away men’s sports, that’s just wrong.”

He thinks that there is a lot of money being spent that doesn’t need to be spent. He said the NIU Athletic Administration should put that money instead to helping fund a women’s sport and help make it proportional.

NIU currently offers athletic opportunites on nine women’s teams and seven men’s teams.

“With Title IX going on, it is cutting a lot of sports programs,” O’Malley said. “Being a wrestler, there might be fewer and fewer opportunities for future wrestlers to wrestle because it could get cut at some Illinois schools.”

Even though athletes don’t like the possibility of losing teams, they agree that Title IX was made for the best.

“I think the law is a good law, it was made with good intentions to make things equal,” Owen said.