Well that escalated quickly.Steve Rodgers wrote:https://sports.yahoo.com/exclusive-fede ... 38484.html
No limit on stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXE_n2q08Ywnalotze wrote:Well that escalated quickly.Steve Rodgers wrote:https://sports.yahoo.com/exclusive-fede ... 38484.html
I do like me a little saturday night schadenfreude.i77cat wrote:http://ninernation.net/index.php?topic=35391.0
Botched tackle much, much worse than Buckner play. Light years worse. No comparison.seamac77 wrote:Michael Wilbon just put Marcus Williams in the Freddy Brown/Bill Buckner club. Marcus wasn't even born when they made their famous plays.
Tackler failed doing something he should not have been trying to do at all. Buckner misplayed a ground ball.
"Then they started making 3s. A lot of 3s. We're talking more 3s than a bad dating site."
Jay Williams. I just heard him say, "UConn's women would make the men's tournament." There should be a limit. There isn't.
"Here’s what is the elephant in the room. Travis had a bag before. Now everyone has a bag. The Travis Ford recruiting prowess was greatly exaggerated."---SLU fan explaining how NIL took away Ford's recruiting edge
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Jay's a smart guy. If he said something stupid, there's probably a reason.
Kinda old, but this article from SI talks about the scout team for an elite NCAA women's team: http://on.si.com/2H9r8Xf
Kinda old, but this article from SI talks about the scout team for an elite NCAA women's team: http://on.si.com/2H9r8Xf
"... coming out of the murky, dreary jungle of untutored mediocrity."
Misogyny isn't just the playground of lesser minds. Brilliant people--men and women--are routinely guilty of trying to judge the success of women based on how close it comes to a masculine ideal. In sports, politics, and academia especially.ChantillyCat wrote:Jay's a smart guy. If he said something stupid, there's probably a reason.
JWill isn't stupid, but he said a stupid, offensive thing. There's never a good reason to be offensive.
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There are many reasons he may have said that. He's paid to. UConn is spectacular. Amazing team, amazing players, one of the best coaches in the history of basketball (any gender, any level). But UConn's women making the men's tournament? An analyst should know how to analyze. Or least know when to practice his shuttin' up skills.
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I'm offended by your offensive discussion concerning offense.Steve Rodgers wrote:Interesting discussion. I can remember when it was modestly offensive to state that women couldn't compete with men in basketball. Now I understand that stating the opposite is offensive. Perhaps Jay didn't get the new memo.
He clearly didn't.Steve Rodgers wrote:Interesting discussion. I can remember when it was modestly offensive to state that women couldn't compete with men in basketball. Now I understand that stating the opposite is offensive. Perhaps Jay didn't get the new memo.
I think most observers are starting to realize that when you say, "hey girl, you're almost as good at a man," you're necessarily implying women are normally inferior.
There are many ways to measure success, and some ways men will generally appear better and other ways women will. Jay's comment ignored that nuance...and that was stupid. Just a dumb comment, because gender is so much more complicated than that women being good enough to be compared to men.
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