NCAA apologizes for disparities
between women's and men's facilities
CBS News,
by
Zoe Christen Jones
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
3/20/2021 6:02:24 PM
The NCAA is promising to bring better resources to the Women's Division I Basketball Tournament after videos and images of the women's facilities sparked outrage among fans and athletes online. Ahead of March Madness, student-athletes and coaches shared comparisons between the men's training facilities and a single rack of dumbbells and one stationary bike for the women. The NCAA initially blamed the lack of space and vowed to improve the conditions. Lynn Holzman, the NCAA's women's basketball VP, said the plan was to provide more space and equipment to teams that further advanced in the tournament. "We want to be
Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 3/20/2021 6:10:16 PM (No. 730048)
ncaa.. huh??
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
smokincol 3/20/2021 6:23:50 PM (No. 730059)
if you look at it from a strictly monetary level, the men do bring in much more $$$$ than the women.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vesicant 3/20/2021 6:35:42 PM (No. 730073)
Why don't the women just walk in and use the men''s facilities? The woke NCAA doesn't believe in biological sex any more, right?
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Such an apology and three dollars will get you a cup at Starbucks.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 3/20/2021 7:28:51 PM (No. 730126)
Just wait a bit and it will be moot since women’s sports will cease to exist when all the guys pretending to be girls replace the actual, biological females. But then it will be men competing against men. Wait, now I’m really confused.
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Reminds me of when I was a senior at UC. A brand new housing facility was built for the male students, while we women were in a dorm that was probably built in 1900 with one communal shower/toilet for each floor housing probably 50 women.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MFM 3/20/2021 7:42:13 PM (No. 730133)
The NCAA and the tournament has turned totally into a woke fest, every game makes mention of some racial or player inequity, always a comment either a pregame or half time comment on a particular player or coach that has overcome something, I have turned it off, silly me for hoping it could be like it used to be, college basketball an escape without Social comments.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sully 3/20/2021 7:42:14 PM (No. 730134)
Will the women apologize for not being able to dunk? Haha! JK! I like women's bball.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/20/2021 7:51:37 PM (No. 730137)
Here's a egregious disparity that must be addressed at once. NFL cheerleaders get about $150 a game, while the men get millions. That is wrong, and it has to stop!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 3/20/2021 8:03:17 PM (No. 730143)
It's like a mental illness that everyone denies having... The illness is "wokeness" and the symptoms are whimpering, simpering kowtowing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PostAway 3/20/2021 8:31:09 PM (No. 730155)
NCAA sports are a travesty. College is an academic endeavor by its nature and bringing in corporations and to rake in billions on the backs of so-called students, most of whom could not solve a quadratic equation or identify India or Indiana on a map when they entered the school and after they graduate, is wrong. It would be interesting to find out, school by school, how the money brought in by sports is used, state institutions especially. The Nike swoosh shouldn’t be all over the athletic gear of schools supported by tax payers. Ohio is not a Nike subsidiary, nor are its schools.
And professional sports are even worse. Why should taxpayers pay for stadiums used by teams owned by multibillionaires, even if the said taxpayer doesn’t care about sports? Do movie theater owners get a tax break because some people love movies and might go to dinner, a movie and to a bar afterward for a night out? Why did Al Davis get stadiums built for his team at no charge to him but the Oakland Ballet Company, for instance, has to find private funds to help pay to use the Paramount Theatre? Why do sports fans get their interests underwritten by taxpayers any more than art or music or any other type of enthusiasts?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mifla 3/21/2021 5:17:29 AM (No. 730296)
After teh bLM nonsense, I walked away from all pro sports. If need be, college sports will also be on the list.
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1) As usual, the women did not make a calm, detailed, rational objection to the situation. They posted a video and broke out in the usual shrill whining.
2) NCAA teams have student managers and paid staff who handle travel, lodging and logistics ie advance work. Why didn't they do their jobs here? Forewarned is forearmed.
3) The farce within the farce is: tournament teams almost never use workout facilities. There are games every other day. It's a grind. If you win: you rest as much as possible. You take fluids. You are literally told to stay off your feet unless you're practicing or going to meals. If you lose: you go home where your own facilities are waiting even though your season is over.
Apart from the substandard athletic product, NCAA women and their sympathizers can't understand why they can't attract TV and/or casual audiences. Apparently there are no marketing majors among the athletes, only women's studies types who think that their screaming harpy routine is a draw.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 3/21/2021 9:45:36 AM (No. 730448)
Ah yes..new slogan... 'a bidet in every men's restroom'...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/21/2021 9:49:48 AM (No. 730451)
It seems to me that complaints about college activities should focus on the poor quality, liberal indoctrination that they sell as "education." If you want to play basketball, there's the park in your hometown and it's free. It has always floored me how "scholarships" are awarded generously for sports but gifted children pay full freight.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 3/21/2021 10:23:05 AM (No. 730482)
Yet no mention of the number of men's sports teams eliminated or under funded because of title nine.
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Why are there no women on NCAA football teams?
Could the answer be that the physical abilities of males and females are NOT equal? Is that the inconvenient truth?
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Disparities everywhere. Not mentioned is strict COVID protocols have made it difficult to jam everyone and everything into the same venue.