Each year around this time, I get emails wondering how likely we are to see baseball, dropped as a varsity sport in 1991, return to the UW-Madison campus. Athletic director Barry Alvarez has said this is something he’d like to see happen.
I wouldn’t count on it.
Title IX dictates that the university offer equal opportunities for men and women to compete in athletics. Adding a baseball team would require also adding another team sport for women â?? not likely in a challenging economic climate. College baseball is charming, but it doesn’t make money, and neither would any women’s team added to satisfy gender equity.