Lady Huskies?

[DaddyChoc]

Can we explain why there's no such thing? I'm seeing this all over Twitter and Facebook

 

[Icebear]

That is even worse than misspelling players names.

 

[PacoSwede]

Talk about getting no respect

 

[DavidK]

Saw it on the mens board yesterday, Just let people be ignorant. If they think we are the lady huskies then they don't pay attention to us and don't see how great this program is.

 

[JS]

I'm glad the Gentlemen Huskies won the national championship though.

Now the Huskies need to follow suit.

 

[UcMiami]

Women, ladies, female - people need to differentiate the two teams by gender. So it is really not that surprising. Much easier when you support a school that doesn't have such successful teams playing in April! Say Stanford Cardinal last week and every one knew you were talking women, say Kentucky Wildcats and they knew it was the men. Say Huskies and you confuse people!
(Of course say Blue Devils and you confused people as well, but for a slightly different reason - why would anyone be talking about that school in April?!!! - sorry Triad, couldn't resist!)

 

[Icebear]

That would the Duke Blue Succubus.

 

[semper]

The Heart of the Husky...is just that a powerful, beating singularity, shared by all teams and fans!

 

[Samanthabrown3]

Can we explain why there's no such thing? I'm seeing this all over Twitter and Facebook

Seeing Lady Huskies is the thing that tells me it's a Johnny-come-lately fan. I usually don't pay much attention to what that person says. More to what you guys say.

 

[GoUconn7961]

That is even worse than misspelling players names.

I corrected the misspelling yesterday...AND..I went on the men's board and corrected THEM about the term "Lady Huskies."

 

[Jackalope]

RE Lady Huskies...This might be deserving of a separate thread, but Jimmy Fallon's take on the men and women Huskies ( second segment in this video) is painful:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/3-takes-ucons-ncaa-success-100910976.html

 

[VAUConnFan]

Sometimes, this year being one of them, it becomes necessary to distinguish the team one is discussing while appealing to the casual fan. We know better, but the rest of the country does not. Let us not hold it against them.

 

[Icebear]

I corrected the misspelling yesterday...AND..I went on the men's board and corrected THEM about the term "Lady Huskies."

That is a mojo positive act.

 

[DaddyChoc]

Sometimes, this year being one of them, it becomes necessary to distinguish the team one is discussing while appealing to the casual fan. We know better, but the rest of the country does not. Let us not hold it against them.

sounds good

 

[Blueballer]

Women, ladies, female - people need to differentiate the two teams by gender. So it is really not that surprising. Much easier when you support a school that doesn't have such successful teams playing in April! Say Stanford Cardinal last week and every one knew you were talking women, say Kentucky Wildcats and they knew it was the men. Say Huskies and you confuse people!
(Of course say Blue Devils and you confused people as well, but for a slightly different reason - why would anyone be talking about that school in April?!!! - sorry Triad, couldn't resist!)

The word "Women" works fine. "UCONN Huskies" Women's basketball team. Go to the UCONN site and that's how they split their athletic page. Men's and Women's. No "Lady" anywhere.
I think that's a pretty simple thing for people (Esp. the MEDIA) to check. If you go to a site that uses the term "Lady Vols" then call them that. If you look at other programs, some use it and a lot don't. It's not that hard to get it right.

 

[Henry]

Just hope they don't play like ladies tonight.

 

[PacoSwede]

Sometimes, this year being one of them, it becomes necessary to distinguish the team one is discussing while appealing to the casual fan. We know better, but the rest of the country does not. Let us not hold it against them.

If it's a casual fan, OK.

It is definitely NOT OK when it's a TV broadcaster in freakin' Harford -- or anywhere in the state. Or any alleged sports/news reporter anywhere. And that definitely includes anyone who utters a word (or produces a graphic) at ESPN.

Or anyone who ever played/coached women's college basketball.

I absolutely hold it against them, with no mercy.

 

[Shenandoah]

A lot of the southern schools distinguish the difference by adding "Lady" to the nickname. I still, however, can't figure out South Carolina...

 

[Dove]

Kavetching about "Lady Huskies" is become a dead horse beating. We know its Women Huskies but oh well.

 

[boontonbomber]

how about pony-tailed huskies and tattooed huskies?

 

[Tenspro2002]

A lot of the southern schools distinguish the difference by adding "Lady" to the nickname. I still, however, can't figure out South Carolina...

What's so confusing about the Lady C0cks?

 

[FairView]

What's so confusing about the Lady C0cks?

They've got entire sites devoted to that on that dang Internet.

 

[Sonny44]

I'm just surprised our opponents haven't picked up on calling us the five letter word for a female dog.

 

[Icebear]

I'm just surprised our opponents haven't picked up on calling us the five letter word for a female dog.

It is because they are afraid the term would be an excessively accurate description of what it would be like to play them.