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17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - The Cost of Equity: Ho... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think that the game athletic directors would like to play is the game of "let's you and him fight". The problem that wrestling coaches have isn't with women's sports, the problem is that the AD and the alumni would rather spend the money dedicated to men's wrestling to outfitting and training the fourth-string 3-down and long wide receiver on the football team.

The problem is not just inequity, it's the fact that college football threatens to swallow up the athletic department budget for...everything, really. Wrestling coaches and women's basketball coaches should be natural allies, instead it's easier for everyone involved to blame women's BB for the problems, when the problem is a bizarre misallocation of resources.

17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - Return from the &ldquo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Oh man, I know how school can definitely interfere with blogging. As a matter of fact, if you're in grad school, it's probably best not to blog at all.____On the other hand, I can certainly live with once-a-week blogging on a reduced schedule. The important thing is that you're back and you haven't dropped off the edge of the universe!____Welcome back!

17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - CafeMerc: The WNBA's F... · 0 replies · +1 points

I like this. I like this * a lot*. I wish that the Atlanta Dream had a site like this.

17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - Darnellia Russell Retu... · 0 replies · +1 points

That was very much unexpected. I hope she finds happiness in whatever she does.

17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - Liberty's Big Win Stil... · 0 replies · +1 points

That was certainly a better analysis than mine, namely, "Never give anyone a month off in New York City".

17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - Fowles Making Big Cont... · 0 replies · +1 points

Is Fowles the true "baby Shaq" of the WNBA? How many other players 6'6" or taller in the W have really been that good? We might see Big Syl dominate for years to come.

17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - Olympic Break All-Defe... · 0 replies · +1 points

Part III of comment.

As for the 3.0 comment rating, that's a 5 and a 1 averaged. I hit the "1" by accident and had to correct it with a "5".

17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - A Review of Media Atte... · 0 replies · +1 points

Another great article, and two comments:____First, in the mainstream media I've read a lot about how the WNBA players should not be fighting like the NBA players, because they should be ladies and it is their responsibility to uphold a higher standard of behavior. As usual, an "up group" encumbers a "down group" and calls the burden an honor. Why should it be the woman's job to have to carry the standard of good behavior above and beyond the call of duty? Let's have either both genders carry that standard, or neither gender.____Secondly, I'm more and more of the opinion that the WNBA needs to market itself as an outsider sport. The guys at AverageLunkheadMale.blogspot.com don't need a slick Madison Avenue campaign to bring them around to the W. They need a whole new upbringing, or a kick in the head by reality. It will take decades to reach some of these people, if they are ever reached - to these people, putting down the W establishes their male "bonafides". The WNBA should embrace its differences instead of running after some chimeric standard of male professional sports. ____

17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - The Cost of Shock-Spar... · 0 replies · +1 points

Excellent analysis, and I'll be looking at Los Angeles and Detroit closely through the end of the season.

One problem with Boxscores might be, "what if a team wins an abnormally low number of games?" like the 2008 Dream or the 1998 Mystics. Right now, Betty Lennox's Boxscore value is 0.66, which is brought down by the Dream's number of wins. I wonder what her Boxscore value with the Storm in 2007 was, but I'll bet it was nothing similar to 0.66.

17 years ago @ Rethinking Basketball - Singular Team Nickname... · 0 replies · +1 points

The funny part is that Oklahoma City's new name has a greater connection to the WNBA team in Seattle ("thunder" and "storm" strongly linked) than it does to the old NBA team. Maybe Bennett'll call the noisemakers "Sonics Sticks"....

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