re: Miss State womens basketball

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The refs that get chosen for some of the big SEC OOC games, especially against UCONN and the ACC schools ... are questionable.

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Especially 2 particular refs always seem to draw those specific games.

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Still, UCONN is as dominant as any college sports team in history ever was and likely ever will be.

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Not in disagreement, but adding a few key moments and a good team becomes impossible to beat.

Correlation between M and W basketball

Early alpha = Adolph Rupp
Early alpha = Pat Summitt

Mainstream alpha = John Wooden
Mainstream alpha = Geno Auriema

Early alphas (outside the east or west coast media comfort zone) get displaced by above average coaches who get outside assistance that allows domination of early success and records. Like Wooden via Sam Gilbert and Auriema via ESPN/refs it hurts the national dynamic and popularity as folks want to feel their school or region has a chance at the start of the season to win it all.

The attendance numbers for Cocks and State should be giving a needed boost to national exposure to WBB but Thomas Grey still seems to understand it best!

Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

In an age of dropping attendance the smart man would seed the ground most fertile to produce the next crop of newborn fans yet the media seems hell bent historically to do the opposite because of their own comfort zones.