Originally Posted by Doge

In our life Nike gave a prize compensation of $20K and trip to Sweden to the males winning team - nothing to the males. In that case the field sizes were the same - same fields, and game lengths the same.

The soccer parents are not going to let that happen. Take it to college (adults) and you have different prizes, award, compensation that varies tremendously by sport.


My point was promoters should do fields by skill ranking and this will push things that way. It is not working out so well right now for bike racing. It is working out just fine for Fondos and Running where groups are defined by ability, even if self determined.


I agree with you folks will not be getting off their couch to race because of money. Increasing gender participation in one sport generally means moving them from another. For the younger, the prize money does matter.


There are many single gender sports competitions. In SoCal the female soccer, volleyball (maybe basketball) outnumber the males by large margins.


Could adult compensation mean sports scholarships? Those are different by sport and gender for any school under NCAA and Title IX. So will CA schools need to adjust Title IX requirements?