U Conn women "equal" UCLA men?

**hitthew8room** · 12-20-10, 04:25 PM

good record. not even CLOSE to as much parity in womens game then mens game.

**Waterstpub87** · 12-20-10, 04:53 PM

When will they learn that almost no one takes women's sports seriously

**DanL32** · 12-20-10, 05:58 PM

The only time I'd watch womens basketball is if the uconn girls played a real WNBA team..i think uconn would win.....but actually i probably wouldn't watch it

**trendon** · 12-20-10, 06:27 PM

Originally posted by Jessica

So what will make it equal? If the UConn women play Div-1 Mens ball? Record is still very impressive. Always sexists that have to bring this up.

I like to think I am not a sexist and I am completely disinterested in hearing anything about this streak for the same reason I don't care if the Iowa Barnstormers won 88 straight Arena Football League games.

**Nova32212** · 12-20-10, 06:57 PM

Wncaab

I'm a Lady Vols fan myself.

UCONN has set the bar higher now for womens basketball.

The other teams have to do a far better job of recruiting women who a capable of going on to play professional basketball if they want to be able to compete for a national championship.

Right now most teams recruit women who are only capable of playing college basketball.

UCONN recruits women that can play pro basketball. That's why they win by so many points.

Look at how many former players they have in the WNBA.

UCONN's streak should have ended when they played Baylor earlier in the year.

**starfire** · 12-20-10, 08:26 PM

I laugh at this!
Ucla still has the record in my book

**gafl** · 12-20-10, 08:43 PM

Great record for U Conn but no way to compare the two streaks. Back in the UCLA days, with the exception of the ACC which had a post season tourney, only the winner of each conference went to the tourney. Not as watered down as today.

**freelee** · 12-21-10, 01:12 AM

5 random pickup players would run the WNBA all star team out of the gym

**coinpusha** · 12-21-10, 01:50 AM

wow... does it even matter? bottom line,winning 88 straight games in any D1 sport is impressive. Let's wait for a men's team to win 88 before we start comparing it to UCLA.

**aesanzsole** · 12-21-10, 02:29 AM

not even close!

**clc49** · 12-21-10, 03:26 AM

its not a sport is a recreational activity....how it gets television time is beyond me....might as well watch cross country skiing

**Vol_Bengal** · 12-21-10, 07:42 AM

Originally posted by freelee

5 random pickup players would run the WNBA all star team out of the gym

Well... now we've swung the pendulum from one extreme to the other... first they'd beat MANY men's teams, now we can pickup 5 scrubs from the rec gym on Thursday night and they'd run a WNBA all star team out of the gym.

We're getting a little crazy here. I hope people are just showing their chauvinist side now... they're two entirely different sports, but to say that some Friday night beer drinkers would even give a good ladies team a game is a joke. The Lady Vols team practices against college students... male college students that are pretty decent good players (and actually in good shape) and routinely beats them.

No, the UConn feat shouldn't be compared to UCLA... but, too, the bashing / bullshit throwing going on now is getting pretty deep. Need to hike up my boots...

**TrapperDapper** · 12-21-10, 09:14 AM

Gino shouldn't have flipped out like that. No body even antagonized him.

**BRAVES1985** · 12-21-10, 09:32 AM

great record but not even close

**jgray** · 12-21-10, 09:42 AM

Originally posted by TrapperDapper

Gino shouldn't have flipped out like that. No body even antagonized him.

It did seem unprovoked, didn't it? Clearly the guy has some inferiority issues.

**ebbearsfb1** · 12-21-10, 12:51 PM

Only a sextist idoit would not tip there cap to the woman who achieved this record... then again half these guys are 40 live in there moms basement... never spoke to a female outside of there family... and ur there allowance to gamble.... fools

**trendon** · 12-21-10, 12:55 PM

Originally posted by ebbearsfb1

Only a sextist idoit would not tip there cap to the woman who achieved this record... then again half these guys are 40 live in there moms basement... never spoke to a female outside of there family... and ur there allowance to gamble.... fools

Would you be excited if, like I said before, the Iowa Barnstormers ripped off 88 consecutive wins in the Arena Football League? Or how about Nate Kmic? He is the all-time, all-division rushing leader in college football. He played for Mount Union. Or how about Mount Union themselves?!

I don't give a flying rat's ass about anything the Lady Huskies are doing because - in my mind - they are the Iowa Barnstormers, Kmic's, Mount Union's, MLS, New Mexico State football's, etc etc of basketball.

**freelee** · 12-21-10, 01:02 PM

you have to be joking the wnba all stars would beat no men's teams they wouldn't even be close i've seen d1 college girls play pickup hoop games and in 3 on 3 tourneys and they couldn't compete at all

Originally posted by Vol_Bengal

Well... now we've swung the pendulum from one extreme to the other... first they'd beat MANY men's teams, now we can pickup 5 scrubs from the rec gym on Thursday night and they'd run a WNBA all star team out of the gym.

We're getting a little crazy here. I hope people are just showing their chauvinist side now... they're two entirely different sports, but to say that some Friday night beer drinkers would even give a good ladies team a game is a joke. The Lady Vols team practices against college students... male college students that are pretty decent good players (and actually in good shape) and routinely beats them.

No, the UConn feat shouldn't be compared to UCLA... but, too, the bashing / bullshit throwing going on now is getting pretty deep. Need to hike up my boots...

**BigDick** · 12-21-10, 02:42 PM

No way in hell are they equal. Uconn always recruit the best of the best for female thats why they are winning. UConn female basketball team can't even beat a division 3 men basketball team so to say they are equal to a division 1 men basketball team is crazy.

**Vol_Bengal** · 12-21-10, 03:00 PM

Originally posted by freelee

you have to be joking the wnba all stars would beat no men's teams they wouldn't even be close i've seen d1 college girls play pickup hoop games and in 3 on 3 tourneys and they couldn't compete at all

If you actually read all the responses you'd see that isn't what I said at all... I said previously that women's teams couldn't beat men's teams (as in an actual organized team)... but you're inclination was that 5 male pickup basketball players would be able to beat the WNBA all star team and I'm saying bullshit.

And, as for Lady Vols practicing against male students in practice it happens every day... and they beat them routinely. If that is what you're previous comment was in regards to.

A male basketball team and a 5 beer guzzlers that play Thursday night pickup games are ENTIRELY different things...

**k13** · 12-21-10, 03:20 PM

I bet that they could beat who ever is talking the most in this thread in a 5 on 5 game.

**ebbearsfb1** · 12-21-10, 06:08 PM

Would you be excited if, like I said before, the Iowa Barnstormers ripped off 88 consecutive wins in the Arena Football League? Or how about Nate Kmic? He is the all-time, all-division rushing leader in college football. He played for Mount Union. Or how about Mount Union themselves?!

I don't give a flying rat's ass about anything the Lady Huskies are doing because - in my mind - they are the Iowa Barnstormers, Kmic's, Mount Union's, MLS, New Mexico State football's, etc etc of basketball.

your also probably the same guy who never played a minute of college/ sports....you'll never understand the hard work that goes into winning 1 game, let alone 88 in a row..

btw yes i would love to see a team in any sport rip off 80 plus wins in arow

**trendon** · 12-21-10, 07:13 PM

Originally posted by ebbearsfb1

your also probably the same guy who never played a minute of college/ sports....you'll never understand the hard work that goes into winning 1 game, let alone 88 in a row..

btw yes i would love to see a team in any sport rip off 80 plus wins in arow

Well, I didn't play anything in college so I will have to defer to you for the experience. How was winning the Heisman Trophy? I always figured it to be a bit much and I think I would break down on stage. How'd that go for you?

**ebbearsfb1** · 12-21-10, 07:25 PM

Well, I didn't play anything in college so I will have to defer to you for the experience. How was winning the Heisman Trophy? I always figured it to be a bit much and I think I would break down on stage. How'd that go for you?

well i actually did play college football for four years...

so your saying don't play unless your going to win a Heisman Trophy... haha i'll ask one better how it is being some one who could never put on a uniform at a college level, then trying to comment on something you know nothing about?

im done with clowns like you... have fun eating mac and cheese in your parents basement

**trendon** · 12-21-10, 07:33 PM

I find it amusing that you are saying I can't comment on collegiate sports because I never played in college but seem free to make wild assumptions about where I am. I would question you further but I wouldn't want to aggravate you or the other 672 Parade All-Americans and Harlon Hill finalists that are on this forum.

**ebbearsfb1** · 12-21-10, 07:50 PM

I'm done with this.... you won't be impressed with anything woman or anything non main sports do, which is the whole topic of this threa

**Capybara** · 12-21-10, 07:50 PM

There's way too much shit-slinging in this thread. Guys, women's college basketball is still an organized fukking sport. Thousands of people are employed nationwide in recruiting, coaching, scouting, training, etc. To win 88 fukkin games in a row is seriously goddamned impressive! Stop being such sexist fukks!

**ebbearsfb1** · 12-21-10, 07:54 PM

agreed 100% capy

**trendon** · 12-21-10, 08:00 PM

Originally posted by ebbearsfb1

I'm done with this.... you won't be impressed with anything woman or anything non main sports do, which is the whole topic of this threa

Again, my initial point was that this has nothing to do with the fact that they are women. If the Barnstormers or any other Arena Football League team were to rattle off 88 in a row and people started comparing it to an NFL achievement, I'd be saying the same thing.

**ebbearsfb1** · 12-21-10, 08:08 PM

And what I'm saying is trying win 88 of anything in a row... doesn't matter the competition...

**trendon** · 12-21-10, 08:19 PM

Originally posted by ebbearsfb1

And what I'm saying is trying win 88 of anything in a row... doesn't matter the competition...

We are arguing two somewhat different points. I agree with that statement. I am just going to raise a stink when I see it compared to UCLA's run.

**SBR_John** · 12-21-10, 08:21 PM

Originally posted by freelee

5 random pickup players would run the WNBA all star team out of the gym

LOL, probably not but I get the point.

I find it odd the media would compare this record to Wooden's. Are there any Pop Warner teams out there with 88 straight wins? Not to be sexist but this is not even close to the same as UCLA's record.

**ebbearsfb1** · 12-21-10, 08:21 PM

at the same time though mens college bball today isn't what it was 40 years ago... competition wasn't spread out at all

**yisman** · 12-21-10, 09:47 PM

It's not comparable to what UCLA did and Geno has said as much on multiple occasions, including tonight.

Guys, stop bashing the UConn women. They didn't do anything wrong.

The problem here is, once again, the media, and more specifically ESPN.

ESPN is a ratings whore and will make all kinds of dumb comparisons and statements if it means more people will tune in.

**coinpusha** · 12-22-10, 07:26 AM

this thread has officially become pointless to continue