Some old data, but the position still holds true. Football should/needs to be excluded from Title IX. Then we still start seeing wrestling teams come back.
The General Accounting Office, which gathers data for Congress, has determined that, as of 1999, women's teams outnumbered men's across the country by 330. In terms of players, however, men, despite casualties that included 2,648 wrestlers, still held an advantage of 69,000 participants.
The discrepancy -- in fact, the discrepancy and then some -- is attributable to football, which is what complicates all of this. What separates football from everything else is that 1) it requires a lot of athletes, 2) it makes a lot of money, and 3) women don't play it much.
Since football is such an anomaly, and since it supports the other sports at many schools, why not eliminate it from the formula and then match the numbers between men and women? The intent of Title IX was to ensure that public funding is committed on an equal-opportunity basis, but in many instances football doesn't require funding; it provides it.