Yesterday, CWA member Patrick Nero explained the Committee's rationale:

It's one thing to not be playing in a game because they haven't reached that level yet, but for them to sit through an entire practice while men run up and down with their teammates? We just think it's really against the spirit of Title IX.

Well, yes, if backups were spending entire practices on the sidelines twiddling their thumbs, that would be a bad thing. If Pat and Geno and the rest were really that stupid and short-sighted, they would deserve some regulation from the at the NCAA.

Luckily, that just isn't how it works.

As Jack Daly reports: "During recent Duke and UNC women's basketball practices, male players spent equal time scrimmaging against both schools' first and second teams."