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Originally posted by Nevadaref
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Originally posted by JRutledge
Juulie,
That is because it is Women's Basketball. Women do not support their own sports.
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Jeff,
Be careful! You just made a very wide-sweeping statement. I'm sure there are many women who do support women's sports. What you wrote was not right and I believe you owe Julie an apology.
Consider how you would feel if someone said that Blacks don't support education. Not right or true either, is it?
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It is true. Women are more than half of the population in this country. If women valued sports across the board, their sports would flurrish. But because of either socialization or flat out interest, they do not attend the sports on the same scale or level that men sport their own sports. Men are fans of certain sports and have never played a single game. I do not know too many females that support the sport on the same scale as men that
never played the sport in their entire lives. When I do boy's games or Men's college games, you see all kinds of males and females in attendence. When I see many of the Women's games or girl's varsity games, usaually the only attendence of females are the ones that have direct contact with the players. Just go to a pro game and see who is attending. If women just supported their own sports the same way men that never played organized sports, then we would not be talking about this. I have no problem making this statement, because show me where it is not true. Why is the WNBA struggling to get attendance? Why are the JailBlazers still getting damn near sold out arenas with all the controversy? Does the Portland WNBA team come close to rivaling the attendence of the NBA team and they are probably better citizens? There is some reason that you have to get in the waiting line for Season Tickets in many pro and college Men's teams.
Just the Big 10 Tournament alone, when both were held in Indianapolis last year, it was very difficult to get a ticket to the Men's Tournament. I looked at TV for the Women's Tournament held the few days before, there were plenty of seats open. You tell me why that is. I sure saw a lot of women at the Men's Tournament. Better yet, those tickets were going for several hundreds of dollars to just get in the building. I say plenty of lower bowl seating open in the Censeco Field house during the Women's tournament. You could hardly find two seats together during the same time of year. It is not because Men are not attending. That is a given. But then again, women are a larger population, why are they not dominating the sporting world? I will let you decide on that one.
Peace