Landmark Court Case on Women's Basketball

[Tidewater]

A court settlement is working its way through the courts.
A landmark multibillion-dollar settlement is on the brink of changing women’s college basketball forever
From the article: "The settlement would allow schools to pay athletes $20.5 million each in revenue-sharing next year, and $2.8 billion would go toward back pay for athletes who played before name, image, likeness rules were reformed,"

This might be a question of "be careful what you wish for."
Not far from my home is a small former women's college (now co-ed). They are barely able to tread water financially. Tell them that they have to pay their women's basketball team $20 million, and I suspect they will either (a) cancel the women's basketball program or (b) close the university entirely.
UCONN can probably afford this. SoCarolina probably can. Not everybody can.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

This one really kills me:

Geno Auriemma weighed in on a huge change barreling toward the sport and the entire NCAA. Colleges are expected to soon be able to pay players—and that ability "will ruin parity," Auriemma

Who is this guy trying to fool?

He's won 88.3% of his games, 12 national championships in the last 30 years, and appeared in 24 Final Fours. They had a record 111-game winning streak.

What parity does he think his sport has NOW????

SEASONS OF NCAA WOMEN'S FINAL 4: 43
Titles won by UCONN/Tennessee/SCAR/Stanford/Kim Mulkey - 27 out of 43
Add N Dame and USC and that's 31 of your 43 champions

PARITY????

There's no parity NOW in women's college b-ball. And as far as the old "Dodgers and Yankees" argument, those two teams have combined to win the World Series 3 times in the last 24 years - one less than the Red Sox have won FOUR by themselves and the same number as the Giants. The Astros have been to the World Series four times and won two since 2017 - the Yankees one and none.

But you never hear the Red Sox or Astros or Giants brought up in that conversation.

 

[CrimsonTheory]

This one really kills me:

Geno Auriemma weighed in on a huge change barreling toward the sport and the entire NCAA. Colleges are expected to soon be able to pay players—and that ability "will ruin parity," Auriemma

Who is this guy trying to fool?

He's won 88.3% of his games, 12 national championships in the last 30 years, and appeared in 24 Final Fours. They had a record 111-game winning streak.

What parity does he think his sport has NOW????

SEASONS OF NCAA WOMEN'S FINAL 4: 43
Titles won by UCONN/Tennessee/SCAR/Stanford/Kim Mulkey - 27 out of 43
Add N Dame and USC and that's 31 of your 43 champions

PARITY????

There's no parity NOW in women's college b-ball. And as far as the old "Dodgers and Yankees" argument, those two teams have combined to win the World Series 3 times in the last 24 years - one less than the Red Sox have won FOUR by themselves and the same number as the Giants. The Astros have been to the World Series four times and won two since 2017 - the Yankees one and none.

But you never hear the Red Sox or Astros or Giants brought up in that conversation.

And because of this, I don't follow WCBB even though I want to. Outside of pro wrestling, WCBB is pretty predictable.