I always loved the "put words in other people's mouths" approach to make it look like they said something they didn't so you can argue against something which doesn't exist. I never said there was a conspiracy. I said there was bias. There is bias in favor of ND just like there is bias in favor of the Duke men's team. There is bias against Geno for reasons I won't go into as it will get people's undies in a bunch. And, yes, in college the coach is the program. Geno is UConn women's basketball.
And the whole jump shot versus drive argument is a chicken and egg one, even if you can't see it. Which comes first, a team shooting jumpers resulting in no foul calls or a team getting fouled with no call resulting in them settling for jumpers? If you don't think the latter ever happens, you haven't played or watched enough basketball. I saw it yesterday in a CYO game. I have nice kids on my team. Too nice. They finally fought back yesterday when playing against a team that was fouling them with no calls. I found myself talking to them a lot more than the refs because, in this case, the refs were calling the game evenly. I still don't like it but it was fair and my kids needed to respond appropriately. In the UConn/ND saga I have rarely ever seen it called fairly.
And don't fool yourselves about the impact of these games on the game itself. I saw a lot of people ripping women's basketball the last couple of days after they watched this game. It makes them look unathletic and makes for an ugly game. It makes women's basketball look like a joke.
