Could Caitlyn Clark compete with D1 men?

packs · #1 03-28-2024, 01:42 PM

You keep saying placed on a roster and eluding to publicity stunts which has to mean you aren't considering a woman playing her way onto a team. It makes it very difficult to have a conversation about competitiveness when you don't allow any space for a person to be skilled.

G1911 · #2 03-28-2024, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by packs

You keep saying placed on a roster and eluding to publicity stunts which has to mean you aren't considering a woman playing her way onto a team. It makes it very difficult to have a conversation about competitiveness when you don't allow any space for a person to be skilled.

For the 50th time, if a woman could play at that level, it would have happened. The league and the media would absolutely love the ability to have a diversity push and talk about how great this is and forward thinking and inclusive they are. The ONLY reason for it not to happen is that it will be an embarrassment, and almost everyone knows it. Women cannot play competitively with men in most sports and physical activities for the obvious physiological reasons. It is a simple and blatantly obvious fact everyone was aware of until the PC crowd decided they didn't like reality. I'm sorry reality does not mesh with your agenda and what you want to find. It is very difficult to have a conversation when you deny objective reality.

Peter_Spaeth · #3 03-28-2024, 05:15 PM

There is a gender gap. There just is. And it's wider the more a sport involves physical contact with the opponent. It's not comparable to the gap between a stronger or weaker NBA player. It's a difference of kind, not degree. As mentioned, even in an individual sport not involving contact or really strength, and even though she is probably by a wide margin the greatest female athlete ever, Katie Ledecky is still 6 percent or in the case of some distances 7 percent slower than the best male. That's a lot. Appreciate the great women athletes for what they are. Full stop.

jayshum · #4 03-28-2024, 06:47 PM

Kelsie Whitmore has played on the Staten Island FerryHawks in the Atlantic League during the past 2 seasons. Her stats have not been impressive so she doesn't look likely to be playing at a higher level.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsie_Whitmore

Casey2296 · #5 03-28-2024, 10:20 PM

As an addition to this thought experiment: what if the first woman in Major League Baseball is a man masquerading as a woman, who has invaded the collegiate women's spaces, but has a devastating curve ball and a monster slider?
Would the DEI folks head explode?

Peter_Spaeth · #6 03-28-2024, 10:30 PM

Polly came from Miami, FLA
Hitchiked her way across the USA
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she

Exhibitman · #7 03-29-2024, 12:36 PM

Comparing the games is laughable stuff. Women play a totally different game, smaller ball and closer 3-point line, nowhere near as physical. Average height of a female player is 5'6", male player is 6'6". Only 8 women have ever dunked the ball in NCAA women's basketball. I don't think it is an accident that the greatest women players have not made it to the NBA; they'd be destroyed on both ends of the floor every night. That's not a slam on them, just a physical reality. Strength and power count. Same reason there are gender and weight divisions in combat sports. It isn't fair to pit a lightweight against a heavyweight, or even match a woman against a man in the same division. Ann Wolfe was as imposing and terrifying a woman as ever set foot in the ring but put her in with a male boxer the same size and he kills her to death inside three rounds, as Mickey might say.

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