In the current issue of the West Virginia Law Review, law student Ryan Smith argues that public universities in West Virginia can comply with Title IX without eliminating men's sports like track and field. I think the fact that this approach strikes students as novel shows just how pervasive the assumption that Title IX is a mandate to do otherwise.
Citation: Ryan T. Smith, Bulls Eye: How Public Universities in West Virginia Can Creatively Comply With Title IX Without the Targeted Elimination of Men's Sports Teams, 110 W.Va. L. Rev. 1373 (2008).