WCBB Message Boards

At one point in time, I'd intended to keep track of all the Women's College Basketball message boards...but I simply don't have the time.

Not that I think a lot of WCBB teams have message boards...and those that have them aren't that busy...except for UConn and Tennessee.

And of course Tennessee is up to their usual hijinks. They no longer play UConn, for reasons Summitt won't come out and say (according to Auriemma, she should just say she ended the series because he's a jerk and she doesn't like him. And that's true! But by saying nothing, she's implying that his recruiting tactics are somehow unethical.)

Anyway, the drones at the Summitt have nothing but praise for her, and nothing but contempt for Geno. She ended the series, so he must have done something bad, and she doesnt' owe WCBB fans any explanation at all...

Meanwhile...most WCBB teams play to audiences of less than a 1,000...

Not that that's Summit's fault. It's just a sad fact that women's sports aren't really supported in a general way. Unless you have a championship winning team like Tennessee or UConn, there's problems putting people in the seats.

But the reason for this post is of course my monthly rant against the Summitt.

Goodness those people annoy me.

As I say everytime I make one of these rants, I'm aware that in the grand scheme of sports message boards, what the Summitteers do is typical. They hype their team incessantly, and diss every other team out there. What sets the Summitteers apart, to my mind, is their sheer hypocrisy. They criticize a team or a player for doing one thing - but when it's their player or team doing it, oh, no, that's fine...

They criticize other teams, other coaches...but when someone comes over to their board to defend the attacked...it's oh, look at these jerks, why don't they stay on their own boards.

And now, what's being planned is for access to the Summitt to go "premium" - which means you have to pay to be able to access it. So they can stay in their own little world and hype their own program and trash the others as much as they want, and no one will know.

And the families of the athletes who go there won't be able to check on what they're saying, either.

Meanwhile, the two "moderators" are just jokes who fan the flames, banning anyone who dares to disagree with the idiots there, and praising the idiots for there pathetic statements.

One bright bulb posted, a few weeks ago, that since Summitt had ended the series with UConn, UConn shouldn't be mentioned anymore. They should be called Name Redacted or NR whenever talking about them....but they shouldn't be talked about because Summitt had made her wishes clear.

Of course no one called the guy an idiot, but they haven't stopped posting about UConn, either. Despite the fact that the series no longer takes place, they won't stop dissing the coach, or certain players (i.e. Diana Taurasi) who beat them way back when, or the announcers who have an imaginary "homerism" for UConn - for example Doris Burke.

Of course the UConn board is not wholly free from such dim bulbs...a recent poster complained during a game recently that the announcers were talking too much about their opponent and not enough about UConn...didn't seem to occur to them that no one needs to talk about powerhouses like UConn and Tennessee because anyone who knows anything about WCBB knows about them - what they don't know about is the opponents, so why not give them some props?

I wish I had the time to read the Summitt more, but it just annoys me so much, and then when I see something outrageous that I feel the need to respond and simply bring some facts and clarity to the "discussion," I can't because every time I do that, I'm banned by the moderators, who don't want facts and common sense to interfere with the fun of the people there.

You just gotta laugh.

Rebecca Gray's Transition from Highshool BBall to College

Rebecca Gray's blog at Hoopgurlz.

This is a pretty interesting blog that I urge all high school bball players to read. She writes about her experiences transitioning from the high school game to the college game at North Carolina, under Coach Sylvia Haskell.

She writes well, her experienecs are interesting - highly recommended!

Tennessee vis Oklahoma

The Tennessee Lady Vols are currently playing Oklahoma. It's on ESPNU, which I don't get. I gotta tell you, I really hope the Lady Vols lose.

I really, really dislike the poor sportsmanship and egotism of the fans that post at The Summitt, but I wouldn't let that deter me from being a Lady Vol fan...but I'm afraid Pat Summitt's ditching of the UConn game - and more egregiously, refusing to say why - has cost her my respect.

So, come on Oklahoma!

Lady Vols lose to Team USA

The women's college basketball season is about to get under way. The exhibition season has started, 2 games where college teams go up against professional opponents. This year, it's been Team USA - the WNBA pros who will play in the Olympics.

They beat Maryland and UConn, and now they've neaten the Lady Vols - but only by 11 points.

Lady Vols article

To the right of the article is a link to see about three minutes of video of the game. Too bad it wasn't on TV...but ESPN was showing women's billiards instead...