Posted on 08/03/2021 2:16:32 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A law firm hired to investigate gender equity concerns at NCAA championship events released a blistering report Tuesday that recommended holding the men's and women's Final Fours at the same site and offering financial incentives to schools to improve their women's basketball programs.
The review by Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP had been highly anticipated. The firm was hired in March after the NCAA failed to provide similar amenities to the teams in the men's and women's Division I basketball tournaments, a situation that blew up on social media amid player complaints and prompted apologies from NCAA executives including President Mark Emmert.
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Isn’t this sorta like the JV team playing before the varsity???
I’ve watched some D3 football (Wabash - DePauw Monon Bell game...126 years and running)
Smart players, good coaches, a high standard of play.
Given that this year most of the sports talkers thought the women’s tournament had better basketball, more unexpected results, and was generally more entertaining, this is kind of an obvious move.
The report noted disparities were not confined to just this year's tournaments and that the bedrock financial deal for the NCAA and its member schools is partly to blame: Kaplan said the NCAA's structure and systems "are designed to maximize the value of and support to the Division I Men's Basketball Championship as the primary source of funding for the NCAA and its membership."NCAA revenues surpassed $1 billion in the year before the pandemic, and almost $900 million of that was tied to the media rights deal with CBS and Turner for the men's basketball tournament.
The women's tournament, meanwhile, is part of a package with more than two dozen other NCAA championships that ESPN owns and pays the NCAA about $34 million per year for, according to the report. But according to an assessment done for Kaplan by a team of sports media and marketing experts, the women's basketball tournament will be worth between $81 million and $112 million annually beginning in 2025.
The report criticized the NCAA for failing to recognize or prepare for that growth in value and said revenue generated by the men's tournament's media deal leads to that event being prioritized "over everything else in ways that create, normalize and perpetuate gender inequities."
“Long-awaited NCAA gender equity review recommends combined Final Four for men’s, women’s basketball at same site”
Long awaited by who?
What does gender equity mean?
That’s kinda like the US women’s Soccer Team demand to be paid as much as men’s team but women’s soccer cannot earn the kind gate $$$ as the men’s soccer does. Same goes for NBA and WNBA. If you can’t draw the viewers and the gate $$$ should the difference in player salary be “adjusted” to obtain equity?
This is the opening salvo of the battle to get in on the new endorsement rules.
Title IX, you know.
Killing Ratings softly with her song...
Make them all play on the same court in the same game as a minimum. And only allow 12% of the players to be black, but require 19% Mexican-American, 10% be illegal aliens, and 50% white.
Why divide teams by gender, if gender is a social construct??
Let men play on the women’s teams and soon you’ll have two all male leagues.
Why not just require people with tickets to the Men’s Final Four to attend the women’s games or lose their jobs, their internet connection, and their bank accounts and credit cards?
I watch almost all the men's tournament games that I can. I don't think I've seen 60 seconds combined of all women's games ever.
ML/NJ
Tyler Zed and I agree!
Why bother? In a few years, all the girls teams will be mostly men pretending to be women anyway!
I believe we need to firing back by pushing for equality in military casualties.
And you will love Big Brother.
“A law firm hired to investigate gender equity concerns at NCAA championship events released a blistering report Tuesday...”
Blistering! Just Blistering! And the AP gets to report it!
Has anyone not affiliated with the League in some capacity ever uttered the sentence “Did you see the WNBA game last night?”
I think the only people who even care about the WNBA are degenerate gamblers who are desperate to bet on anything.
They think women bball will get better ratings tied to mens bball.
Just not going to happen.
Why are there separate teams? They should just have 1 team per school and the best players play. See how that works out.
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