Williebfree,
I have your answer for you.
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Honestly, I have seen you be overly critical of women's basketball throughout your postings on this forum.
Last time I checked I can do that. I hear many being critical of the NBA and the officials that officiate it, I think they have that right too. Do you see me getting on here and saying, "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE NBA? WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST THE NBA? DO YOU HAVE PROBLEMS AGAINST THE NBA?"
Hell no, I do not care what you or others think about the NBA. That is what choices are all about.
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Honestly, I do not understand your agenda. Have you been spurned by someone (of female persuasion) that you feel the need to lash out?
Hellooooo. Are the rules the same in NCAA Men's and Women's? Are the officials the same on both sides? Did you see the same officials working both Final Four Games? Are the mechanics the same? Why does the lead signal a 3 point shot in Women's and they do not in Men's? Why does the Women do not have any kind of 10 second count? Why is the 5 second count totally different in the Women's game as compared to the Men's game?
You must have never done a college game in your life. Or at least not on both sides. I have so I like to evaluate or debate the mechanics and calls of both. I have been to the Big 10 Men's Tournament the last 3 years and always like to talk about what I see. Sorry I have not had the money to go to both Men's and Women's Tournaments, the Women's Tournament is held during the week while the Men's Tournament mostly during the weekend. I would love to go to both, but I could not get my friends or myself to even go if I wanted to. But then again, you have a degree in Psychology so I guess you can figure out why I cannot afford to get off from all my other responsibilities to travel to two cities or stay a week in Indianapolis to watch both tournaments. But then again, you know don't you?
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Honestly, you have previously, passionately posted about the right of someone to maintain their beliefs and scolded those who have challenged that right. Yet, you are lambasting those who may not agree with your postition on this issue. I find it appalling that you even pose your original question.
Did I tell you not to post or to have an opinion? I think all I did was ask a question. I just saw no posts about what happen and wanted to know why. If that offends you, find bigger things to be offended by. I was not even offended that no one cared or appeared to not care about Women's basketball (but you all are true fans right?)
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Honestly, I find Women's basketball as exciting and rewarding as the Men's game.
OK, where was your posts praising the jobs of the officials. I did not even see anyone post who the officials are or have discussions about where they were from or how good they were. There was about 4 pages dedicated to who was doing the NCAA Men's Final Four. For some reason, I did not see your post about the Women's Final Four officials.
Also remember you said "I." That pertains to you, not me or anyone else. You have that right and more power to you. If I told you that I only date dark haired women or women with long hair, are you going to tell me you are are you going to then be mad because I do not like blondes with short hair?
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Honestly, I am tired of your tirade, but acknowledge you have the right to continue. Many of our fellow Americans, men AND WOMEN have shed their blood fighting to defend freedom of speech.
Do not read the posts then.
This is a free country, I did not tell you what to read or what think about any level. I did not go to you personally to see what you thought. This is why it is called a discussion board. We are suppose to discuss things.
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Honestly, I hope you re-evaluate your attitdue on this issue and move on in life.
This is not life, this is an extremely small part of anything that goes on in this world. If you did not realize, people in the Middle East are killing each other on a daily basis. That is life my friend.
Considering that most of us are mainly talking about one side of the ball and the commentators from side of the ball, I just wanted to know why? I did not hear any of you talking about how stupid Mike Patrick was in his critisism of the officials, or Ann Woodward's comments about inconsistency of the officials and how they should be calling the game. I did not even see you discussing the issues of an article that suggested that the Men's coaches were all thrown into the same bracket, to almost insure that the Final Four would only have one team that was coached by a Man, if one at all. I did not see you talking about how much of a travesty that was?
If you are this easily offended, then please do not read any of my post. I guarantee you will be offended further. Because in my area and my associations, we have several discussions of what levels we do and why? As it relates to training and evaluation or even who we decide to vote in as board members or who we work for, you better be concerned with what level you want to do. Only 2 assignors that I work for, assign both Girls and Boys basketball. And they admittedly will not assign you to both in most cases, because everyone down to the coaches and Athletic Directors do not want to see you in both. And if the reason that people are only watching the Men's game is because they are trying to get better at watching the Men's game because that is all they care about, I wanted to know. I will admit that it is selfish on many levels and that I wanted to know. I sure as hell was not offended or even cared when this board went on and on about how stupid commentators are and they comments they make. What do you expect from people that are fans, former coaches and former players. But I would not call those obsessed that kept bringing up those points. If that is what they wanted to talk about, so be it. It was funny to me and I moved on.
Peace
[Edited by JRutledge on Apr 5th, 2002 at 12:55 AM]