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What?? The women aren't good enough for the BCA anymore? This seems like an incredibly sexist and insulting move if true.
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First off I can understand this move. It costs a lot of money to have a game or event at Blue Cross Arena. If you are not bringing in the fans than you will be losing a lot of money.
Women sports just are a tough draw. Look at the Soccer leagues that have come and gone. They had the perfect timing of the Women’s World Cup on US soil when nothing else was going on back in the late 90s. That ran a women’s pro soccer league, but only a few years before they ran out of money.
There are exceptions, but on average women are not as strong and athletic as men. Not that there have not been fantastic female athletics. There have been some greats, Rochester has one of them. However it’s a matter of numbers, not as many girls on average are good athletics or even interested in athletics as most men are. I helped coached one of my sister’s softball teams back in college. I remember one girl was a great softball player. She could have been all state, she was a better ball player than I was. However, she quiet (sadly to me) after her sophomore year of high school. It was just not as much fun of her playing at that high level as just playing for fun.
Now that is not every female athletes, but I good many are like that. It’s kind of like RIT spending money to find out why women just are not interested in Engineer or IT as much as men. Curiously they don’t seem to study when so many less men like to be Nurses, or Social Workers, or Speech Pathologist. They seem to get that men just are not as interested in those fields, ON AVERAGE, as women are.
You know the idea of Title IX is a good one (It implementation has been a disservice of sports since day one). Women should have the opportunity to play if they want to. And I think a university should try to do just as much to get people interested in those Sports as their male sports. However, people have limited time and money and they generally want to see the best when they spend that time and money. The overall skill level of females to their male counterparts is noticeable lower in most sports. Tennis is the one sport where I think it’s a lot closer. Again this is all on average, so it’s tough to find that one great female game. Not that there are not great females games out there and we certainly have seen a few yawner of Men Hockey games at the Ritter.
Point is that these are tough decisions balancing give women all the chance in the world vs. also having to worry about having enough money to do these things. Hey how would you feel being a female hockey player from Niagara who recently dropped their program? Think they would not like to be playing at the Ritter if they had the chance. Niagara, a stone throw away from a so called City of Hockey. Think about that, before you start throwing insults and calling people names…
