Simply Common Sense, the Minnesota-based organization that is dedicated to bringing sanity to Title IX, has a new leader. John Means, a career golf coach, has taken on the challenge, and is hoping to muster the troops in the battle against proportionality.    Hired fulltime on February 1, Means is currently reaching out, asking a lot of questions, listening and taking notes. His goal? "I want to bring everybody together, working from the same sheet of music," he said.    Means' task will not be easy, but could be effective. One of the criticisms of the wrestling community, as well as the men's Olympic sports fraternity, is that it has been way too splintered and unable to form an effective coalition in opposition to college sports gender quotas.    The organization, inspired by the Univ. of Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson, is seeking to become a leader within college sports. According to Means, this can only happen if those who have been injured by the interpretation of the law decide to work together as a team.    "I told J I would carry on what he started, but do it differently" said Means. "I want to get all the different sides to have input. I am hoping to that I will draw the right conclusions and get people to work together to get the pendulum back in the other direction."    The fact that Means comes from golf, a sport that he has coached on the college level since 1978, gives him a perspective that may help bring the men's sports community together. Means wants to take the work already done and move it forward. He applauds wrestling for taking a leadership role in battling the unintended consequences of Title IX. "Almost all of the information I received has been from wrestling, or from people who have been involved in wrestling," he said.    The first challenge is educating the victims that they have a problem. You can't heal a wound if you don't know that you are bleeding. Means recently addressed the college coaches from his own sport, golf, and had to confront them with the fact that men's golf has lost more programs than the other sports.    "I was the president of the golf coaches association, and a member of their board for 11 years," said Means. "I was not aware that golf programs had been being cut. It was not until later that I researched it and I realized that golf was the No. 1 sport for the number of programs dropped. When I told them this fact, you would be surprised at all the shocked people."    There are a few reasons that Means has taken on this assignment after retiring as a coach, his passion for the last 25 years. The first has to do with golf's response, or lack thereof, to the plans of Miami of Ohio to drop a number of men's sports, including golf.    "We were at a golf convention, and the coach at Miami of Ohio explained the problem," said Means. "Nobody said anything, and the association didn't do anything. We didn't react at all."    Ironically, of all the men's sports targeted for elimination at Miami of Ohio, only golf was spared the ax. Among the sports eliminated during that process was Miami's wrestling team.    Another reason he has chosen to fight proportionality is that he became more educated about the problem. "J has been a close friend for many years," said Means. "He gave me about five huge boxes of information, things from all kinds of groups and people. I started reading it. It infuriated me."    Sharing information and getting people to communicate more effectively is the first major goal for Means. The facts exist, but for some reason, according to Means, the word is not getting out.    "The biggest challenge for me is to get information and to disseminate that information," said Means. "I would like to get all the men involved in these splinter groups and get them together. There are people trying to do things. I have to find out who they are, what they are doing, then get them together. That is what the women's groups have done effectively. We need to have access to information to make informed decisions for our kids and the future of our sports."    Means is reaching out to "anybody and everybody who has an interest in solving this." He can be contacted at scs@thewrestlingmall.com    As a sports parent, Means understands first hand the truth about today's college sports opportunity. "I have an 11 year old son, and he has less and less opportunity each year. I also have a daughter who has great opportunities. She has this opportunity, not because Title IX gave it to her, but because she earned it."