“...will lose their opportunities whether they play or not, so it is better not to play.”
Probably not. School sports are only one outlet of sports activities. One of the most consistent is the YWCA for your ladies. City recreation departments are also active in creating leagues for youth in girls’ and womens’ leagues, some recreational and some competitive. Churches also get into the act sometimes sponsored by city recreation.
Keeping this in perspective is that playing sports at that million dollar level is not within the reach of as much as 99% of the ladies that practice after school and play maybe twice a week. So it is recreational as a whole. And coaching and equipment in k-12 schools is far from a stepping stone to the big bucks.
So they have outlets to replace the misdirected actions of allowing this to happen and can replace their wish to play. And in time if they get big enough, fast enough, smart enough, and in some cases bruised enough, they can step into AAU or industrial leagues that are all over the world. They won’t make those millions, but they will be playing at that higher level they wanted to achieve. But how many actually want to? Not that many.
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In the neighboring state, they should create the independent Basketball League of Women of Maine...
BLOW ME.