All right. . . Let me start again.
Rut's entire post would've been fine if he'd just said "This is why I need to leave girls basketball
in Chicago alone."
Coach, respectfully, you missed my point. Rut was NOT trying to disparage an entire gender. He was simply making the point that girls ball in his area, whatever that area is, stinks (especially when compared to boys basketball). I can make the same claim. Nobody is saying that girls shouldn't play basketball. But for some officials, it just isn't rewarding or fun to work those games. That was the whole point. Nothing more.
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So yes, I do take offense at his comments and I believe that they are completely without basis having seen the same teams he sees (or could see if he wanted to).
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Finally, coach, if you've really seen the same games that Rut has seen, how have you come to such drastically different conclusions? You've seen the same teams play, but you think the games have only a slightly lower skill level than boys; while Rut thinks they're nearly unwatchable. Since Rut's actually working the games, I'd have to think that he has a pretty good perspective on them. Maybe you should consider the possiblilty that the girls who play should be taught, encouraged, applauded and supported vigorously; but that --
at least in Rut's neck of the woods -- they actually stink. I don't think there's any problem with admitting that (if it's the truth), and I don't think there's any reason to take offense at it.
Chuck