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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 4958286, member: 10435"] We just disagree. The whole point was the effect of Caitlin Clark and secondarily Paige on young girls and women's sports. If you are comparing the Syracuse women's effect on women's sports to CC's, then even Dawn Staley disagrees with you. I don't know why it is so difficult to accept the fact that her impact has been, as Dawn said, the greatest ever. I would defer to her opinion in that regard. The more the women's game gets attention and has heroes, the more young girls will be drawn to it, the more they will play it, the better the game becomes, the greater the advancement of women. And just to be clear, I would bet you dollars to donuts that when the Syracuse women go and play away at say North Carolina, there are not 50 young girls lining up for autographs and photos of a Syracuse player. That's what I saw first hand with Paige and we know from videos and press accounts and social media that is what happened with CC. Sometimes a sea change is hard to accept but 12.5 million watching Iowa- LSU, a new record, and 14 million watching Iowa-UCONN, another new record says it all. CC has had an important impact on women's basketball and women's sports in general. [/QUOTE]