messi wrote:
Good thing there are no cheerleaders at football games.
Isn't this more telling about the football players than anything else?
Exactamundo.
messi wrote:
Good thing there are no cheerleaders at football games.
Isn't this more telling about the football players than anything else?
Exactamundo.
Privilege and entitlement? Are you that sick? Stop thinking people give a damn about cross country. Worse yet, women’s cross country. No one cares but a clique of skinny distance runners. That’s it. And once women graduate from college, they so rarely give a damn about the skinny distance runners they were. There is a larger portion of scrawny males that care about their old team. So that makes .0000001 of alum that care about women’s Xc. That number may raise a little to .000001 that care about men’s Xc.
Runner@2018 wrote:
Are you not getting the point of this post? Do you really not see the issue here? Do you not care that the young women of these teams are being treated this way because of running in a sports bra since some "men" can't control their staring to pay attention to their own practice? Do you think these women are "asking for it" for doing so?
And just to be clear, the track team has won conference titles and has gone on MUCH farther (to regional and national levels) than the football has in a LONG time. So you comment is irrelevant and is missing the entire point. The football team has not been individual conference champions since 2006.
No, I don't think they are asking for it. And I am not claiming to be super informed about this university, I had never heard of it until now. Thanks for looking up more recent stats.
But,
Men are distracted by scantily clad attractive women. Fact of life.
Wouldn't it be better to have separate practice times?
They should send them over to the rival school to distract their team instead.
epicTCK wrote:
No, I don't think they are asking for it. And I am not claiming to be super informed about this university, I had never heard of it until now. Thanks for looking up more recent stats.
But,
Men are distracted by scantily clad attractive women. Fact of life.
Wouldn't it be better to have separate practice times?
My boys high school team was once banned from running shirtless on the track because we were "distracting" the girls field hockey team.
It's a cheap excuse from a petty coach who doesn't want to share their space. Good lord, part of any sport is learning how to shut out distractions. If your players can't concentrate when 15-25 people are running on the track around them, then that's a pretty big indictment of you as a coach.
Boz scaggs wrote:
Too distracting wrote:
I started reading but got distracted by the picture of women in sports bras.
Yeah, typical. There's a new medical term for that. It's called neanderthal attention deficit disorder (NADD). This is why women outnumber men with doctoral degrees and other accomplishments that require complicated neural networks.
Should be renamed to Neanderthal Attention Deficit Syndrome (NADS).
The should have the lady's team run around the track during games to ruin the opposing teams attention, a la The Replacements.
I can't understand this as I went to a real college where the track team and football team had separate venues. The only people being distracted by the girl's running team was the guys running team and every other person in the college town, but fortunately not the football players, as they were busy practicing at their own venue. All the guys looked forward to when the weather would get warm.
Bonkers wrote:
[quote]epicTCK wrote:
No, I don't think they are asking for it. And I am not claiming to be super informed about this university, I had never heard of it until now. Thanks for looking up more recent stats.
But,
Men are distracted by scantily clad attractive women. Fact of life.
Wouldn't it be better to have separate practice times?
My boys high school team was once banned from running shirtless on the track because we were "distracting" the girls field hockey team.
It's a cheap excuse from a petty coach who doesn't want to share their space. Good lord, part of any sport is learning how to shut out distractions. If your players can't concentrate when 15-25 people are running on the track around them, then that's a pretty big indictment of you as a coach.[/quote
This.
I guarantee it wasn't the players that complained, it was the coaches. They don't like sharing the facility. They think their practices should be closed just like the Giants and the Eagles get to close their practices.
Even at a sh!thole D3 school like Glassboro State (you can call it Rowan University all you want, it's Glassboro State College) football rules the roost, they get what they want.
Cute, but not hot.
Wouldn't this be a Title IX issue? Lack of equal access to facilities? Especially if there are already facilities that it sounds like the football team isn't using.
Going to have to say it.... wrote:
Wouldn't this be a Title IX issue? Lack of equal access to facilities? Especially if there are already facilities that it sounds like the football team isn't using.
lol, Football doesn't lose anything because of Title IX. If they feel the women are being treated unfairly because of their gender, they'll take something away from the men's XC team to balance the scales.
Runner@2018 wrote:
Do you not care that the young women of these teams are being treated this way because of running in a sports bra since some "men" can't control their staring to pay attention to their own practice?
An honest question: if the headline were "Men's football team can't practice while women XC/Track practicing," would your opinion be different? In other words, if they were changing the men instead of the women.
I suspect the men were really not paying attention (the men's own fault and shortcoming), but that can cause 2 major problems for the men: 1) getting hit unexpectedly during a football practice and 2) losing their spot on the football team after they get a harassment allegation (again, also their own fault). I recall several times in middle school football and high school baseball where we had to move (or run laps or whatever) for similar reasons (girls' softball team). I don't think the coach ever blamed the girls - it was just an issue he could either fight or avoid, and avoiding it when there is an alternative is usually preferable for many reasons. You can't really move a football field or a track, but I'm sure the two coaches worked it out (if not, they definitely both should have had equal representation in the meeting with the AD and reached consensus).
It's already been repealed. Stupid AD got shut down by NCAA and university President lol. Big waste of peoples' time.
Rowan President just reversed this decision allowing all athletes to wear sports bras as they see fit. Kudos to the educated minds that grasped how discriminatory this policy was. And to Rev. Fred, you can save your ignorant opinions on what a respectable woman is.....my sports bra wearing daughter and her 30 teammates would be happy to debate you on that subject.
Rev Fred Nile wrote:After all no self respecting lady wants to be seen outside of the bedroom in a bra.
A swim suit top is more revealing than a sports bra. The only question is appropriate attire for situation. A sports bra is appropriate attire for running in the heat.
lol what is this Saudi Arabia? or maybe the christian taliban?
maybe the men need to workout with horse blinders on like they do in nyc when they pull carts on the street so they don't freak out
or just eliminate sports at universities that don't have both men's and women's teams
You don't know what a individual conference champion is. That means that you have won the conference. Where did you thing that a single player became a champion?
When I was in high school, our female XC coach made a deal with the male football coach to have our team do repeats around the football field while the guys were practicing. It was to show them how hard we were working, especially when the football players complained about having to do laps. I remember overhearing the comments from the players as we were running, and they were all pretty impressed. We earned a lot of cred that day.
S_Dargula wrote:
You don't know what a individual conference champion is. That means that you have won the conference. Where did you thing that a single player became a champion?
Nobody calls the Eagles the individual Super Bowl champs or the Red Sox the individual World Series champs, etc.