Their general approach has historically been that athletic opportunities equip girls and women to compete in the “real world” against dudes who have always had these opportunities. That said whenever new women’s sports surface that don’t fit their true social engineering objectives their true colors come out. It’s never been about letting girls compete in things they want to compete in like cheerleading or flag football, it’s about their agenda, which at base has little to do with sports.

There is now plenty of proof out there that these women and the organizations that support their philosophies are purely the “sports subsidiaries” of their larger social movements. The unfortunate truth is that political correctness prevents a discussion of what actually drives these people.

The only thing we know for sure is that now that the battle has moved into the courtrooms we are assured that positions will continue to become more polarized and significant difficulties lie ahead.

If people are worried about obesity, have kids move more and eat fewer carbs.

Flag football gets kids moving.

The problem with college sports is that many “average” coaching performers are being paid “exceptional” salaries due to the competitive nature of the coaching market.

Seems a lot like business hiring to me. There are exceptional performers out there, but they are rare and difficult to parse out and hire. When properly identified and placed their performance is frequently incrementally better than the average performers. The secret of course is to accurately identify the exceptional skill sets and place them at a cost that the organization can benefit from, both from a monetary and a performance standpoint. It’s hard to do.

In college sports it is a particular problem because there doesn’t seem to be an offset to the expense of hiring a supposedly qualified, expensive coach. In business you could terminate that person if he or she failed to perform as expected or promised. In college sports there are contracts involved and because there is no real “bottom line” like there is in business no one is relating revenue to expenses in a rational way. Hence our current reality.

I think we can expect this to get worse before it gets better. These average coaches making $500K +/- just look at athletes as being inventory. They don’t seem to feel any responsibility for their players physical health when they are playing or after they leave unless that health somehow impacts their ability to continue to receive their paychecks. Concussions, ACL’s, whatever, it’s just “collateral damage” to a given coach’s career.

In any case, appreciate the links. You consistently bring information to the table that no one else in women’s sports does. Thanks

I also agree that the Independent Women’s Forum is way over on the Right, but they are generally accurate in their piece. The issue as I see it is the IWF ’s “core problem” of Men and Women not being the same flies directly in the face of the bedrock gender feminist theory of the social construction of sexuality which of course most of those in charge of women’s sports administration and compliance are fully invested in.

So it looks to me the only way to approach it is full speed & head on. They would rather melt everything down than change. Given the tone and frequency of the less than positive comments on the ESPNW blog relative to Title IX it seems we are probably seeing some momentum being built on the side of reasonableness.

We’ll see how it goes. I’m thinking that more truth needs to be told. Thanks for getting the ball rolling. We’ll be working on getting more information out there in the near future.

You should think about putting your views in book form.

GOOO USC FIGHTING GAMECOCKS!!

Here is a very interesting piece on the coaching thing. His point being, real world experience matters, in coaching and everything else.

http://www.swishappeal.com/2011/4/21/2125267/ncaa-womens-basketball-coaching-why-developing-expertise-at-mid

Funny thing is he published this in 2011, long before Fagan’s recent gendered diatribe.

This isn’t e a gender-specific issue, but certain people with an agenda — the careers of women coaches — are always going to exaggerate these things. “The Glass Wall” is built on a faulty premise. Discrimination is never going to go away completely, but to suggest things are as bad as they were years ago is fundamentally wrong and dishonest.