Given this decision by BGSU, I thought I would do the same for the baseball program as I did for the ODU wrestling program.
Note: I am not including tuition revenue of the student-athletes as revenue to the baseball program as I contend that tuition revenue is revenue generated by the academic units, not the athletic unit. As you may guess, economists are not unified on this. Go figure!!
Then again, I am not adjusting for student fees that account for nearly 50% of BGSU's athletic department total operating revenues, nor am I adjusting for the 5% to 13% Direct Institutional Support (both can be thought of as subsidies for the athletic department) that contributed to the athletic department's total operating revenues.
My takeaway: dropping baseball 1.) reduces the athletic department's fiscal year deficit, but 2.) does not meet the Title IX "prong 1" test, though it helps a little.
Here are the athletic department financial numbers for the baseball program for the 2016/17 to 2018/19 fiscal years. (Athletic Department financial numbers were acquired via public records requests).
| Bowling Green | FY | Total Op. | Total Op. | Surplus/ | Scholarship | Surplus/Deficit |
| State University | Revenue | Expenses | Deficit | Expenses | w/o Student Aid | |
| Baseball | 2017 | $55,000 | $746,007 | -$691,007 | $239,865 | -$451,142 |
| Baseball | 2018 | $74,433 | $766,272 | -$691,839 | $266,800 | -$425,039 |
| Baseball | 2019 | $80,259 | $775,016 | -$694,757 | $272,150 | -$422,607 |
As you can see, baseball generates lower total operating revenues than total operating expenses, resulting in a fairly consistent deficit around $700K. Even ignoring the scholarship expenses, which are not an economic cost, results in BGSU having a deficit of over $400K per fiscal year.
Using the EADA data, I looked up for each fiscal year the following:
Full-time Equivalent Male Counts and Female Counts; and Male student aid and Female Student Aid.
I calculate the following (in terms of percentages):
| Name | FY | Male% | Female% | Male-Aid% | Female-Aid% | Difference |
| Bowling Green | 2017 | 43.18% | 56.82% | 61.55% | 38.45% | 18.37% |
| Bowling Green | 2018 | 43.21% | 56.79% | 64.17% | 35.83% | 20.96% |
| Bowling Green | 2019 | 43.93% | 56.07% | 60.44% | 39.56% | 16.50% |
Since the Title IX "prong 1" test states that universities are in compliance if they are +/- 1% of the ratio of full time equivalent males to male athletic aid, and BGSU is +18.37%, this means that BGSU is not meeting this test, BUT it does not mean that BGSU is not in compliance.
BGSU can make an argument that eliminating baseball is meeting Title IX "prong 2" now.