Christyn Williams and Olivia Nelson-Ododa took lots of heat from coach Geno Auriemma, but chose to stay in the program and grow, on and off the court.
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When I saw the title of this thread, I said to myself, "USA Today is editorializing about women's basketball. This I have to see." And, in fact, it's a fine article, as may have said. However, I'd like to point out what some will call a technicality, but isn't, really: This was not an editorial.
An editorial is the opinion of the organization publishing it, in this case USA Today, or of its editor. But this is an opinion piece, or an opinion column, or maybe an op-ed, a term that describes opinion pieces that are published opposite the editorial on the editorial pages. Or, at least, that used to be, back when editorials published on pages were relevant.
This in no way detracts from the validity of the points being made. It's just that it's really unlikely that USA Today, or any national newspaper, would take on this issue in an actual editorial. Fact is, an opinion piece can be written by almost literally anyone. Having written a few, I can attest to that. Because an editorial is the opinion of the organization and/or its leaders, it carries more weight than one person's opinion does, or, at least, it's supposed to. Often the organization has an editorial board that tosses around ideas for editorials and proposes opinions. The editorial is what results from that process. Having written a couple thousand of them, I can attest to that, too.
