TIME TO LEAVE NO DOUBT!!
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Well, I think there was doubt until we obliterated Notre Dame in the first 10 minutes of the season
But after that, no.
The WBB team has put themselves in the enviable and unenviable position that anything less than a national title is disappointing.
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Anything less than a Final Four is disappointing. I can't be more than temporarily let down if the team doesn't make the championship game or win it.
Your response is reasonable and rationale. I don't follow them all that closely, but looking at ESPN, they've gone 100-3 over the last 3 seasons. They have found themselves in that rarified air that a handful teams in sports have found themselves, that it's title or bust. When you breeze through an undefeated regular season, mostly uncontested from what I gather, and are clearly the best team in the sport (from what I gather) anything short of a title has to be a bit of a disappointment.
We were lucky to escape Baton Rouge with a win. But win by 1 or win by 50, a win is a win.
Probably true. There are 3 teams I could tell you about. Lady Vols b/c I lived in Tennessee at the time they were dominating the sport. UConn b/c they won like 800 games in a row. And now us b/c I'm a USC fan and we get talked about on Gamecock forums.
Women's basketball seems to be a sport that one team absolutely dominates for a while and then another team dominates for a while. It really sort of makes for a dull overall sport.
I posted to ask about this a while back but got no responses. You don't see this in men's basketball. In the 90s, Tennessee was absolutely dominant and nearly unbeatable for a prolonged period. That overlapped with UConn being absolutely dominant and actually unbeatable for considerable stretches and then that segued into us being absolutely dominant and nearly unbeatable.
I'm sure the fact women's sports are largely ignored by the public and college fan bases contributes to that. No AD is feeling any pressure to make any women's teams better so when a program gets good they can stay good because no one else is going to put resources into a team to try and overtake them.
It's funny. Alabama won a few football titles and they blew up the entire sport to try stopping them. UConn won 6 titles in 8 years, losing almost no games in the process, and nobody even noticed.
How you're playing matters now. It will matter even more next week. Were getting past the point of comfort.
I'll bet fewer in the country know who won the Stanley Cup last year; and the NHL is a pretty healthy sport.
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That was supposed to say “around a dozen” very good women’s teams now! (This old guy still has difficulty with keyboarding when using my phone. I don’t know how young folks can do it so quickly!)
Their run was absolutely insane...unrivaled in sports. But it ended nearly 50 years ago and there hasn't been anything remotely close to what the ladies game has since then. You've had basically a seamless transition of 3 consecutive dynasties, going back to the 90s in women's basketball.
I'll take that bet for any amount you want to wager. Hockey is HUGE among yankees. Outside of the South and some Midwest states, college sports are very much an afterthought for the public in general.
The Women's Final Four had higher ratings than the Stanley Cup finals in the US.