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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 4108050, member: 3834"] Look, I’m all for never seeing another situation like last March where there was a clear disparity in how the NCAA treated the women vs the men. That was clearly unfair and should have (and did) embarrass the NCAA. That should never happen! The appearance/salaries money however, is a completely different situation. If, in the 80s, someone promoted a concert and had the Eagles and the Bangles appear, clearly the Eagles would be paid far more than the Bangles! Why? Sexism? I don’t think so. The Eagles generated far more revenue than the Bangles. That is simply a fact and the promoter is going to pay the band that generates more ticket sales commensurately! Why? Because he/she is in the business to make money. Men’s basketball generates far more money than women’s basketball! As long as it does, the respective payouts will reflect that. I happen to like the women’s game better but all you have to do is compare film of the respective parades for the NBA champion Bucks vs that of the WNBA Sky. There is not even remotely the same interest level between the two sports. The NBA generates billions, the WNBA cannot even break even! Here again we have a situation where you twice say that you are “guessing”! You (or I) clearly have no idea what the real figures are. Yet you act as though, based on your guess, something grossly unfair is happening. Now I don’t know about individual team revenue differences and I would concede that there are a few women’s teams that clearly, at the very least, appear to be competitive in terms of drawing fans etc and perhaps are being unfairly recompensed. However, there are probably only 5-10 of like that in the entire country! I would agree that in those cases, something is wrong. However, it’s not even clear to me that those 5-10 are suffering some kind of funding bias as I don’t know how the revenue stream works in college basketball. Do the women get to put all their revenue back into the women’s program? I don’t know. The problem is, some people think that there should be equal opportunity while others want equal outcome. It is not hard to guess which group would be made up of people who run businesses and whose livelihoods are based on the bottom line and which group would be made up of people who simply are looking for a desired outcome regardless of who has to pay for it. [/QUOTE]

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