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watch a little closer sometime

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You mean their making films?

I'm not sure how you can watch someone play basketball and tell if they like beaver or not.

I don't know if this is a good comparison or not, but I refed a few men's games (at officiating camp, not real games) with a woman who was darn good. I would have worked any of my games with her, including college men's. She's worked her share of high school boys 5A and probably some small college. She's now Big 12 women's officials supervisor.

I honestly didn't work with too many other women, and those that I did work with were in girls games, so its hard to tell. I think Summitt could handle the technical aspects of the men's games, but might have more problems dealing with male players.

Time for some realism here:

no chauvinism, just realism:

Put yourself in the place of an 18 year old basketball recruit that is going to have to decide where he wants to play his college ball and hopefully make it to the NBA.

I'm throwing myself back to when I was 18 and a HS senior, and, no matter how good a coaching record the woman has, THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THAT I AM PLAYING FOR A WOMAN COACH over coaches like Bobby Knight, Rick Barnes, Kelvin Sampson, Eddie Sutton, Bill Self, etc...etc...or even the worst men's div1A coach in history. He's still a man.


it just is not happening.

you can make yourself out to be the total idealist and fill yourself with giddy, self righteous delusions that it might actually happen that way, but let's be honest.....

given the choice of playing for a bitime D1a Mean's B-Ball coach that is actually a man and proven, or the choice of playing for, to an 18 year old kid, would be a false authority figure that you could not respect,(A woman other than your mom) sorry girls, but that is the way it goes, that is life in hollywood.

A guy may listen to his mother and to his wife or girlfriend, but beyond that, when it comes to sports,a guy has enough trouble listening to a even the best male coach.

In my days as a high school basketball player, we would have laughed a female coach right out of the gym.

Sorry, but simple male pride gets in the way. It will never happen.

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In my days as a high school basketball player, we would have laughed a female coach right out of the gym.

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I guess that says it all.

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even the worst men's div1A coach in history. He's still a man.

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So let me get this right, you'd rather play for a man that lost every single conference game the year before than play for a woman with over 700 career wins at the college level, multiple national championships, great contacts all over the basketball world, and a proven leader? Right.

You can't say what an 18 year old recruit would do unless you were an 18 year old recruit. Factor in that most of these guys come from different home lives that what you or I came from and you can't say with ANY level of accuracy what they would do.

I'm sure the same arguments that you guys are making now were made against black coaches at one time. They can't recruit. They don't know the game. No recruit worth anything would ever play for them. Well, some of those guys did alright, as I'm sure Pat would if she decided to go that direction.

I'm done! Check please!

For the last time, it is not the same game, not even close. FWIW, I don't think a men's coach would have much success in women's basketball either, at least initially.

Melvin would do OK in women's BB ... they don't play defense either.

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