That's a toughie.
Just like to bitch?
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Great point curly!
But that is overshadowed by one of the most stupid comments I have ever read. I pray you have no daughters. Those of us who do are offended -- which was, of course, your purpose. You should change your moniker to "Neanderthal, and Proud of it."
Typically, that's a defense against gender identity insecurity.
No two ways about it: sports fans are neanderthals and misogynists for avoiding women's sports like the plague.
I'll give your triple points for invoking "The Patriarchy," too.
moving at a snail's pace. It is as bad as watching paint dry. It is a perfect sport for anyone who cannot do anything athletic. Oh you do have to wear mouthpieces, but that may be the most exciting thing about it. Watching someone take a shot to the mouth once in a blue moon. Absolutely the worst sport ever. Thank God guys don't play it.
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ball, basketball are great without your own kids competing. Volleyball and women's basketball are ok and take athletic ability but they are no football or men's basketball but way better than soccer or field hockey.
It's not enough for you to come crawling out of the woodwork to declare that Brey just ain't so good after a loss, but you have to compound the idiocy with the McGraw > Brey nonsense.
There's a reason no one watches women's sports: they're slow, they're weak and they can't jump. A few weeks ago, you blokes almost had me questioning if things had radically changed. Then I saw some UConn "highlights." It's roughly comparable to watching a Class C boy's basketball team in a moderately populated state. You can turn on the best women's teams and you'll see the sort of things you see from mediocre boy's high school teams: blown, unguarded layups, airballs that miss by three feet, minor collisions that result in massive, awkward sprawls and injuries, drives to the basket that take longer than a geriatric bowel movement.
And you're "offended?" I'm glad you registered that. The truth almost always offends more than falsehoods.
to be so aggressively proud of your ignorance. You confuse athleticism with sport. And for your singular view of a women's game -- hardly probative of anything even if you were capable of objectivity, which you clearly are not -- ignores years of watching Brey's mediocrity.
Here's the fact: Muffett took a program from nowhere and built it into a powerhouse. National championship; multiple National finals and Final Fours.
Brey??? None, and he took a program which had a rich history, and a year of good recruiting and coaching.
What has the relatively higher athleticism of boy's to do with that? Only a simpleton Neanderthal would compare the two and, excuse Brey's demonstrated inferiority in every objective criterion to conclude he's a better coach. You have a significant problem with women. I would feel sorry for you if you were not so disgustingly proud of your misogyny.
They don't run an offense as well. They commit more fundamental errors on both sides of the court. They lack court sense. They don't move their feet. Now many, perhaps most, simply lack the ability to move their feet, but some just lapse out of proper foot coordination all the time. Thus, you get all those slow-speed pile-ups or inexplicable cases of players just falling down.
By the way, missed, uncontested layups and airballs that aren't even close aren't indicative of a lack of athleticism, they're indicative of poor fundamentals, which is what you witness every time up and down the court in women's basketball if you take off the blinders. It's poor basketball and no amount of your virtue signaling will negate that, Monsieur White Knight.
Not a soul with a speck of basketball sense buys the argument that winning in the women's game is comparable to the highest level of men's college basketball. It's stupid and it's ignorant, but I give you a bit more credit and think you already know this, it's just part of your shtick here with regards to Brey. Like you, I used to complain about Brey's lackluster post-season performances. Then came the last two years. He's a good coach, he's demonstrated that and there's a reason women's basketball coaches don't get tabbed to start coaching high level men's basketball.
I dont usually agree with you but this is spot on. It's literally like comparing apples and oranges. Brey does FAR more with his 11-12 recruits than she does when you consider what he is up against in Div 1 college basketball. He never get's the one and dones and yet look what he has done the last three years.
Ironically in football this board relies heavily on the distant past yet in basketball Brey has delivered in the recent past and is looked down upon for it by so many on this board. Who cares what he did 10 years ago; what has he done for us lately? Kelly has done shit for us lately so the folks around here like to talk about how it was 30 years ago.
And this shit about mysogyny....I am so fucking tired of hearing about that bullshit. Because you think the caliber of men's basketball is so much higher than women's you are a mysogynist? This country is out of control with all these new labels.
team ball because they cannot simply rely on the dunk to bail them out. They rely on the three point shot so much, and that is not always fun basketball. They pass the ball as well as their physical ability allows them, and basketball is beautiful when passing both outside and inside is involved. On the other hand the lesser fast twitch muscle amount does not allow them to play with great speed. Sometimes because of their need to play team ball their movement of the ball becomes something to behold but the lesser physical strength makes the passes less pinpoint and powerful. They seem to hit more wide open threes than guys do and so many of them make foul shots more effectively than guys(not true this year on our men's team as we were awesome). They get away with shooting set or push shots on threes rather than jump shots and that seems to make it easier for them. In fact Mabrey seems to be the only one who gets a three off quickly that I have seen, and she is not exactly jumping much when she shoots it. It is all relative really, based on strength and speed.
On the other hand you see way more ugly shots in the women's game when they drive to the hoop and the quality of teams is only about 8 deep. I remember I watched the first UCONN/ND game this year and it was downright ugly and as far as I'm concerned they had the two best teams in women's ball. The physical differences make the guys game way more exciting and of course with the number of good teams every year, usually about 32 to 40, it is a battle almost every night. The refereeing in the women's game is much worse though it is still bad in the men's game.(Witness the final this year, those guys were supposed to be the best three? Really?)
As far as Muffett goes, she did build the program, although the argument can be made she had no place to go but up with our ability to sell our education. The education is way more important to the women, who are generally staying four years and definitely at least three. Comparing Muffett to Brey is really comparing apples to oranges as far as the ability to get real talent because no one is leaving after year one in women's ball. Muffett is determined, driven, gets her team to respond, makes adjustments and yet called a piss poor play at the end of the Stanford game this year.