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Post by swash on Mar 20, 2021 8:32:37 GMT -5
It is mind blowing that the whole thing isn't identical for both tournaments. It is 2021, correct? In the age of social media they didn't think anyone would notice? It's not that nobody would notice... it's that they thought no one would speak up. ... again - stupidity reigns at the NCAA.
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 20, 2021 8:39:18 GMT -5
It is mind blowing that the whole thing isn't identical for both tournaments. It is 2021, correct? In the age of social media they didn't think anyone would notice? It's not that nobody would notice... it's that they thought no one would speak up. ... again - stupidity reigns at the NCAA. Then the NCAA has not been paying attention. People throughout society are speaking out loudly about inequality issues. Did they really think players, coaches and fans would just accept this? Shameful.
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Mar 20, 2021 9:24:01 GMT -5
Some here don't get it. The good old boys who control the NCAA are accountable to no one and they will do outrageous things without batting an eye. Remember several years ago a star quarterback and his dad were caught with fist fulls of money and what did the NCAA do? It delayed a decision on the case until after the national championship and soft balled it too. Everyone in the USA knew what was going on, but Emmert and company make decisions that fatten the coffers and favor certain universities that have strong NCAA ties.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 9:43:02 GMT -5
Lots of apologies but no one is taking responsibility for this. They won't because the entitlement of NCAA Bureaucrats comes from the idiot on top down to Gavin and a few other clowns??
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 9:45:26 GMT -5
Swag bags is a joke, but meals are unforgivable. These are world class athletes playing with extreme competition. Balanced diets with stress dietician loads are a necessity. The pictured meals in Hilton article would be an insult to a jet blue passenger. Swag Bags are minor, but the NCAA likely gets all of the elements of the 'bags' gratis and they should have made them reasonably comparable?? It's just the tip of a much larger iceberg!
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Post by samanthabrown3 on Mar 20, 2021 10:49:20 GMT -5
Sally Jenkins has a great article in the Washington Post. Unequal
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 11:05:01 GMT -5
Jay Bilas weighs in on the NCAA & Mark Emmert:
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Post by bulkey on Mar 20, 2021 11:27:36 GMT -5
This is a wonderful thing that's happening. It's really very small potatoes in the scheme of gender inequality, but, because it's on a national stage at a moment when people have felt dissed and angry generally, it can be leveraged into something really, really great.
After all, it's not that the women's stuff sucks. It's that the men's stuff is so much better. If both the men and women had not had access to any weights, gotten no swag, and got crappy food, no one would complain. It's a college game played by athletes on full scholarship, not a world crisis, environmental disaster, or lack of vaccines for most of the world. But it is deeply, deeply unfair and obviously because of gender bias.
Most lessons are learned, if they're learned at all, by a lot of suffering. This one might be learned by merely relative unequal treatment because bright lights just happen to be shined on them.
So, this is a really, really good thing.
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Mar 20, 2021 11:36:32 GMT -5
Sally Jenkins has a great article in the Washington Post. UnequalFor 20 years I have felt that the NCAA should be broken up and subject to oversight. There is so much money churning around that the NCAA considers itself invulnerable and they well could be untouchable. Sad.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 12:03:26 GMT -5
Sally Jenkins has a great article in the Washington Post. UnequalFor 20 years I have felt that the NCAA should be broken up and subject to oversight. There is so much money churning around that the NCAA considers itself invulnerable and they well could be untouchable. Sad. The sad thing is that it was easier to break up the bureaucratic Soviet Union than it will be to smash the NCAA??? The over-paid clowns working there; from the top on down, will do anything to keep their gravy train?? We'll need more than Lawyers, Guns & Money ....... Even Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner can't take them down..........................
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Mar 20, 2021 12:08:28 GMT -5
Good article with quotes by CD, Geno and CW: www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-women-tournament-20210320-20210320-ufqaqzdwgre3zpq74p5o4o5b4i-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UConn%20Alerts%20-%20Don%27t%20Miss&utm_content=6011616200812#nws=true“What’s happening at the NCAA level, I think, that’s a small sample of what occurs every single day on every college campus pretty much throughout this country,” Auriemma said. “We’re very fortunate at UConn, but it used to be that way. I spent 20-some years here battling the same things, whether or not we could get treated equally. “Throughout the country, women’s coaches have battled to try to get what coaches feel are things that I need to be successful. There’s a big picture there that for a lot of coaches in women’s sports, not just women’s basketball, that work just as hard as any other coach in America, and are successful and are doing an incredible job, and they’re doing it with the resources that you would say are less than adequate relative to what the men might have. And that’s at every school. “I don’t think [the NCAA Tournament bubble in San Antonio is] doing anything that you would say, ‘wow, that’s just completely out of the ordinary.’ It just follows with kind of the way things are, the way they’ve always been.”
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 12:09:56 GMT -5
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 20, 2021 12:12:21 GMT -5
Emmert is a clown.
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Post by nyhuskyfan on Mar 20, 2021 12:27:27 GMT -5
Wow, things haven't been this unfair in San Antonio since the Alamo... I did not want to laugh at this, but I could not help myself. This was funny.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 13:40:48 GMT -5
Hold on!!!! You've just insulted all clowns!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 13:44:04 GMT -5
Good article with quotes by CD, Geno and CW: www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-women-tournament-20210320-20210320-ufqaqzdwgre3zpq74p5o4o5b4i-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UConn%20Alerts%20-%20Don%27t%20Miss&utm_content=6011616200812#nws=true“What’s happening at the NCAA level, I think, that’s a small sample of what occurs every single day on every college campus pretty much throughout this country,” Auriemma said. “We’re very fortunate at UConn, but it used to be that way. I spent 20-some years here battling the same things, whether or not we could get treated equally. “Throughout the country, women’s coaches have battled to try to get what coaches feel are things that I need to be successful. There’s a big picture there that for a lot of coaches in women’s sports, not just women’s basketball, that work just as hard as any other coach in America, and are successful and are doing an incredible job, and they’re doing it with the resources that you would say are less than adequate relative to what the men might have. And that’s at every school. “I don’t think [the NCAA Tournament bubble in San Antonio is] doing anything that you would say, ‘wow, that’s just completely out of the ordinary.’ It just follows with kind of the way things are, the way they’ve always been.” While Title IX regulates universities, it's not enforced as tightly as it could be: www.womenssportsfoundation.org/advocacy/what-is-title-ix/
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 13:46:24 GMT -5
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 20, 2021 13:49:17 GMT -5
Hold on!!!! You've just insulted all clowns!!!!! I hate clowns. They are creepy.
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Mar 20, 2021 14:11:29 GMT -5
An evil clown. You give him the benefit of a doubt he doesn't deserve to call him simply a clown.
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 20, 2021 14:27:09 GMT -5
An evil clown. You give him the benefit of a doubt he doesn't deserve to call him simply a clown. Fair enough.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2021 15:08:35 GMT -5
Hold on!!!! You've just insulted all clowns!!!!! I hate clowns. They are creepy. In that case:
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Post by chicagogg on Mar 20, 2021 15:32:02 GMT -5
An evil clown. You give him the benefit of a doubt he doesn't deserve to call him simply a clown. A clown with one trick...cashing VERY LARGE paychecks for very little effort or results.
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 20, 2021 16:01:54 GMT -5
Looks like some improvements have been made in the exercise equipment. Trying to link the ESPN story but sitting here with my iPad trying to figure out how to do it. Might have to go to the laptop unless someone would be so kind as to add the link.
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