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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 2698626, member: 961"] College ball is fundamentally different from the WNBA. If the powers that be think that turning women into men with breasts will boost attendance, that's what they will do. So we will see tattoo-covered, chest-beating, ego-driven basketball peppered with dunking. (I just cannot get excited about women coloring their hair. They have been doing that since God was a child, and there's nothing even remotely radical about it). It will be the female version of the men's game and because women are not men and cannot perform athletically in the same way, it will forever be a cheap version of the men's output. Note please, I did not say men's sport, because I am not convinced it is that any more, but that's another topic for another time. Bronx23 is right, and thinking about what he wrote leads me to ask whether for many WCBB fans the principal attraction is a form of nostalgia -- a return to basketball the way we remember it and the way we insist it should be played? If that is the case, the WNBA is going in the wrong direction for now, but all of women's basketball -- college and pro -- might eventually go the way of the dinosaurs as we dinosaurs shuffle off this mortal coil, to scramble a metaphor or two. At some point there just will be no one around who remembers the way the game was played, and no one who cares. [/QUOTE]