A school athletic dept has to balance the revenue loss with the Title IX requirements. My uneducated flyby guess is that they will take the simple solution of cutting programs to make it work out financially.

If a school currently has 20 sports teams, with (random number of 20 athletes per team) 400 athletes in total, and an annual revenue of $20 million, here is how that would play out.

- 15% of revenue is $3 million ($7,500 per athlete)
- which leaves $17 million to cover costs that used to be covered by $20 million.
- if you cut six non-revenue sports (while maintaining Title IX balance), you cut out 120 athletes.
- Now the school would have $17 million to cover much less cost. The remaining athletes benefit (now getting $10,700 each), but hurts a bunch of other kids in the process by eliminating their partial or full scholarships or just their opportunity to play.
- it will be a bloodbath for olympic sports, especially at smaller schools (and probably more so for men's sports if the school has a football team that takes up a lot of the numbers).

I think there is a solution out there, but this is not it.