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You are a strange pup to say the least. You want to dig your peers calling WBB an unimportant sport? What mushroom have you been eating or sleeping under? Do you not realize the womans program has made more money for the school than football to this point? A football season ticket holder here that will always appreciate what the womans program has done for this school.
You do not have to like what has been done but your peers GET IT and maybe you should give them a little more ear rather than mouth. How many minor sports draw national tv contracts? To say the level of play would not hold up to a boys high school game is simply s e xest and dumb. They practice against men all the time.
Would this be an olympic sport if the only ones that cared were from Storrs and Knoxville?
It is an Olympic sport for the same reason the WNBA exists, or college women's hockey exists. As far as being sexist , as a previous post intimated. I have two grown daughters and 3 granddaughters. One of my daughters was quite good at golf growing up my son and the other daughter sucked. My son is an above average tennis player and the younger daughter is way smarter than either her sister or brother. It is quite possible to see people's talents in an objective way and make judgments about them. Doing so in no way diminishes who they are.
As far as the revenue of WBB is concerned the fact that only a handful of programs, at best, even cover their travel budget speaks for itself. WBB has been very good to my alma mater. That does not mean it is near relevant on most other campuses.