Another obvious answer: Girls do not play football at the high school level. There is no pool of skilled and eager women football players. Colleges would be starting from scratch.
Kurt Bray >A couple obvious answers: > >1) Football is expensive. Lots of equipment, large rosters, high insurance >costs, etc. Not many schools will foot that bill without the possibility >of >offsetting revenue. Add in the cost of needing duplicate football >facilities >for men and women. Doesn't seem likely. > >2) It's difficult enough to get large numbers of college women to play >conventional sports; I doubt there would be sufficient numbers to field >full >squads at more than a small handfull of schools. > >David Dallman wrote: > > > > Probably a stupid comment from a European, but why aren't women > > encouraged to play football? Then you could equalise the numbers this >way. > > They wouldn't need to draw in big crowds, just participate, because as >we > > are told, it's just the numbers of male and female which are counted. > > After all, women didn't use to play soccer at all, now it's accepted. > > > > David Dallman _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
