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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 3338660, member: 591"] I don't have anything against the practice, I don't remember the numbers but a few years back the Arizona Daily Star published what Arizona was paying for some MBB games. These schools need those funds to survive. I don't think anyone gets rich on the women's side, but it gets the teams out on the road (with the positives that that provides), gives them competition that most likely isn't coming to their school to play, and other (limited) positives. On the other hand, a well respected women's coach who inherited from the previous coach a game scheduled against Rutgers for her lower level and not-so-good program pointed out, I think correctly - that she hated playing the game because her players were not going to learn anything, could not possibly compete and were just going to get beaten down. So there is more than one side to it. The nick-name (not original with me) seems suitable, and was never meant to demean the schools themselves. But I wish the Power 5 level schools would schedule better games and rely less on paid chow for guarantee wins. [/QUOTE]