Re: Iowa girls basketball
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Caitlin Clark has really energized women's basketball not just in Iowa, but everywhere. She's probably the best women's college basketball player ever, and will probably come back for her senior season at Iowa. She has created a huge swell in viewership of the women's college final four.
Women's basketball is in a very strange situation right now. You may know that the WNBA is a failed business model and cannot support itself, so the NBA subsidizes it. The WNBA would not survive if not for the money that the NBA pours into it to keep it afloat. But even with that, the top women's players are only making about $250k a year, a fraction of what the men are making.
So along comes Caitlin Clark, who has generated a groundswell of interest in women's basketball, and of course the WNBA wants to take advantage of that situation and have her energize pro women's basketball, but there's a problem. Caitlin is ALREADY making as much money as the top WNBA players! Her NIL contracts are greater than what the WNBA players are making. She likes college, and she'll probably come back for her senior season, and why not?
We've never seen a situation like this in sports before.
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Re: Iowa girls basketball
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03/27/23 09:57 AM
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Rooting for OSU first then Iowa second. Nice to see three Big10 teams still alive out of six but I think South Carolina is gonna have to play a horrible game to be overcome?
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Re: Iowa girls basketball
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Are there any trans women, i.e. men, in professional women's sports? There are a couple who are questionable. And of course it's been widely publicized that Brittney Griner is not all female. Nobody seems to know for sure what all has been changed, other than maybe those who shower with her after the games.
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Re: Iowa girls basketball
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Are there any trans women, i.e. men, in professional women's sports? There are a couple who are questionable. And of course it's been widely publicized that Brittney Griner is not all female. Nobody seems to know for sure what all has been changed, other than maybe those who shower with her after the games. Russian prison guards said she is a he, so maybe not a complete conversion.
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Re: Iowa girls basketball
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03/28/23 09:51 AM
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it takes all 5 girls on the floor willing to work together to make a winning team they are fun to watch I can't wait till they install my fiber optics, then I can watch sports
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Re: Iowa girls basketball
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That Clark girl is unbelievable!! Ok sit down. I hope they win it all!!! She and most of the team never take a play off . Hustle on offense and defense. I mentioned last week if you want to see good basketball watch the women’s team. No individual play like the men’s side . But I’m afraid the giants on the Sec teams will be too much for Iowa to overcome. Lolololololol
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