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re: Can someone explain the Caitlin Clark disdain on the board?

Posted on 3/4/24 at 9:04 pm to
Posted by Dallaswho
Member since Dec 2023
843 posts
Posted on 3/4/24 at 9:04 pm to
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If Iowa faced a men's basketball team


Which ball would they use?
Posted by GoGators1995
Member since Jan 2023
1852 posts
Posted on 3/4/24 at 10:03 pm to
She passed an LSU player to be the all-time leading scorer in college basketball. And LSU fans have been telling the rest of us for a year now that both sports are exactly the same and on equal footing.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
90620 posts
Posted on 3/4/24 at 10:21 pm to
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Iowa faced a men's basketball team, even a mediocre one, it would be a massive slaughter.


They aren’t even undefeated in WBB. They didn’t even finish 1st in the Big10

If they make it far enough they’ll get embarrassed by South Carolina just like against LSU last year. She is an incredible player but it’s a team sport
Posted by BFIV
Virginia
Member since Apr 2012
7725 posts
Posted on 3/4/24 at 10:50 pm to
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Simple….comparing her with Pistol is Absoutely Stupid




This. What would Pistol Pete's score have been if he had the 3 point shot rule when he played?
Posted by Sleepy_Tiger
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Aug 2021
6753 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 6:56 am to
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Are other sports message board destroying the poor girl, or is this place just "special" with one too many nutjob jealous LSU fans, the ones who think that "the only reason why women's college basketball gets three times the rating of college baseball and the only reason why their popularity isn't comparable is because ESPN has an agenda and ESPN is evil... Pete Maravich better. Angel Reese better. Corndog corndog"

Or is it even deeper than that?
Zero disdain, she is the all-time women's scorer; comparing her to Pete is like apples and oranges unless you have a woke agenda, which it sounds like you do.
Posted by That LSU Guy
The beach
Member since Jul 2008
11418 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 8:07 am to
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She passed an LSU player to be the all-time leading scorer in college basketball. And LSU fans have been telling the rest of us for a year now that both sports are exactly the same and on equal footing.
None of this happened.
Posted by coachcrisp
pensacola, fl
Member since Jun 2012
30600 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 10:15 am to
Watch the ESPN special on Christian Laettner, and you'll see similarities. It' boils down to envy.
Posted by FootballFrenzy
Member since Oct 2023
1393 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 10:17 am to
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I have zero disdain for Catlin Clark. I have disdain for the media pushing the story

This is it EXACTLY.
Posted by HogPharmer
Member since Jun 2022
1287 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 10:20 am to
Insecure LSU fans
Posted by GamecockUltimate
Columbia,SC
Member since Feb 2019
6830 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 10:26 am to
Media has fueled it. Instead of talking about her scoring and how fantastic it is, they have gone heavy into her breaking Pistol Pete's record. She didnt play mens basketball so there was no record there for her to break.

I think her flopping is also another point of contention.
Posted by gamecockhub
Lexington, SC
Member since Sep 2017
366 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 10:51 am to
I echo Lonnie Utah on this and those that said it is comparing apples and oranges. What would Pete have scored if there was a 3pt shot back then? Each record stands on it's own.
This post was edited on 3/5/24 at 10:55 am
Posted by MetryTyger
Metro NOLA, LA
Member since Jan 2004
15599 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 11:31 am to
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Violent Hip Swivel


By all accounts she has everything that this board is looking for – she's pleasant and humble.

Are other sports message board destroying the poor girl, or is this place just "special" with one too many nutjob jealous LSU fans, the ones who think that "the only reason why women's college basketball gets three times the rating of college baseball and the only reason why their popularity isn't comparable is because ESPN has an agenda and ESPN is evil... Pete Maravich better. Angel Reese better. Corndog corndog"

Or is it even deeper than that?




(1.) Actually, she has displayed past actions that did not portray her as 'pleasant and humble.' Flopping, bumping other players and fans to instigate crap, and holding up fingers to the crowd, etc.
Doesn't sound humble to me. Now, she may be playing it different now, I don't know.


(2.) Presenting one's own right to an opinion and actual real-life facts that actually occurred -
(e.g. - recognizing that Clark:
(a.) has the Women's NCAA scoring record, but not the Men's.
(b.) played four years as opposed to three.
(c.) had the benefit of the three-point line.

is not congruent in any way whatsover with with being 'jealous' or a 'nut-job.' (whether that be Louisiana State, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, or any other SEC school's posters on this board who have made similar comments). Nor does it indicate 'disdain' of any kind. One would have to know the inner thinkings of the 'disdainor' I presume.

YOUUUUUUUU sir, seem to be that.

Ohhhh, and BTW, the COLLEGE BASKETBALL career scoring records do not belong to either Pistol Pete or Caitlin, but to Pearl Moore of a small college in Florence South Carolina - over 4,000.
This post was edited on 3/5/24 at 11:35 am
Posted by gamecockhub
Lexington, SC
Member since Sep 2017
366 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 12:25 pm to
Yes, Pearl Moore scored 4061 points while playing for Francis Marion University before there was a 3pt shot and before the NCAA ran women's basketball ( I believe it was run by something called the AIAW back in the 1970s)
Posted by SOSFAN
Blythewood
Member since Jun 2018
12209 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 12:29 pm to
Comparing Clark to Pistol Pete is like comparing the church league MVP with Jordan.
Posted by A12 Oxcart
On the float out in the Belt
Member since Dec 2022
302 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 1:07 pm to
She is one of the best women's college basketball players ever.

She is also an insufferable whiny flopper.
Posted by gamecockhub
Lexington, SC
Member since Sep 2017
366 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 1:12 pm to
According to an article, former LSU coach Dale Brown says he charted all the shots Maravich took during his 3 years at LSU. Saying that if there was a 3pt line then Maravich would have averaged 57pts a game and his final tally for 3 years would have been 4731pts. No discredit to Clark, but Maravich was something else all together.
Posted by ucbearcats
Member since Oct 2021
847 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 1:18 pm to
I can tell you why the disdain exists- sexism! They cannot stand that a strong female has broken one of their sacred records.
Posted by SOSFAN
Blythewood
Member since Jun 2018
12209 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 1:23 pm to
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They cannot stand that a strong female has broken one of their sacred records.


She hasn't broken Pearl Moore's record.
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
42645 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 1:39 pm to
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If Iowa faced a men's basketball team, even a mediocre one, it would be a massive slaughter.


Mike Tyson would slaughter Sugar Ray. Same sport. Different weight classes.
Posted by GoGators1995
Member since Jan 2023
1852 posts
Posted on 3/5/24 at 2:58 pm to
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None of this happened.

Take it up with Metry Mauler, he keeps telling me that LSU won the 2023 basketball title.
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