Or…. Hear me out here. He could compliment an ISU athlete that made her countries Olympic team without being prompted by an ISU fan tweeting to him.
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I’d def watch her this summer in the Olympics over Clark when Clark likely gets added to fill an injury. it’s incredible what she’s doing vs the norm of her sport and it’s traditionally a popular Olympic sport.
Probably the US Men bball Team Cyclones, Biles and wrestling is what I’ll watch.
I'm guessing this is Simone's last Olympics too. Gymnasts age out so fast. She's amazing though. She has, what, five gymnastic moves named for her. More than any other previous gymnast. I love Simone.
In the US maybe. I think you’re not giving enough credit to the international aspect in sports like women’s gymnastics and women’s tennis. There’s a WAY bigger market than women’s basketball.
This type is really pretty sick when you think about it, and actually quite unfair to any young person that gets this kind of attention and unreasonable amount of affection purely so a media entity can get clicks. In a weird way, some of these guys give off a creepy Brittany Spears late-90's vibe about this whole situation.
Copying what I shared yesterday in the CC thread:
There literally might be millions of people that are deeply, truly, and passionately duped (by the media) into believing CC is by far the best women's basketball player in the world right now, and maybe ever.
If it turns out that she's just a really good player, and spends her career between top 10 - 20 player in the game (IF she ever gets there - she is clearly not right now) - let's say the female James Harden - this would be a catastrophic fall from the pedestal that millions have be duped into believing she is on.
Narratives like this are also crazy offensive to the current women's professional game (and to the current and all-time WNBA greats), the same game that apparently these people think is 'growing' from this. It clearly shows that these people have not watched (and do not watch) other WNBA players.
well of course, I would too but that's not really the point. Women's Gymnastics is one of the most popular events in the olympics and usually gets good ratings. Did you watch any of her events in the last four years? If Biles weren't in these olympics and instead it was the next star gymnast in the US gymnast factory, would that really impact the ratings?
So again, the Serena Williams, Simone Biles, Anika Sorenstam, etc, etc comparisons don't really hold water. All of those women were much better at their respective sports than Clark will ever be. Countless other women can say the same. That isn't really relevant to the discussion we're having however. Those ladies impact on the ratings of their collective sport were small, none of that were their fault. Those sports just aren't going to be mainstream popular. Women's basketball on the other hand has a shot.
As I mentioned earlier, Mia Hamm is the most obvious comparison. She and her teammates didn't just draw ratings when ratings for women's sports were unheard of, they basically built women's soccer on their backs. Clark has accomplished the first part, drawing unheard of ratings for a women's sport. The rest is yet to be determined
I won't pretend to know what the market is in other countries. I know soccer is popular basically everywhere, outside of that *shrug*
Say what you want about Randy Pete..... he would not act the way Murph and company do. He was more professional. Murph and the rest are really nothing more than Hok fans with "journalist" credentials... you cannot take them seriously.
I don’t get how what you’re arguing has anything to do with these local media Hawkeye jerkoffs claiming CC is the greatest female athlete of all time already.
Fwiw I’ve always said this whole thing reminds me most of early years of Tiger Woods. Especially how they both say the perfect nice angelic thing to the press all the time but on the court/course they are mean and nasty dropping f bombs constantly and I feel kind of icky that I’m even cheering for them because of how good they can be. Golf and wbb had hardcore fans but overnight a majority of “golf fans” were just people watching Tiger the same way you have to explain basic principles of basketball and sports to a lot of Clark nuts.
I think there were two different local media Hawkeye jerkoffs claiming two different things. I think Condon was completely wrong, Clark isn't anywhere close to the best to ever dribble a basketball. Dochterman was mostly right. He made no claims about her being the best, but rather her drawing the most fan interest and being influential. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I think Mia Hamm is the obvious comparison on that.
As to your last point, yes that's what happens when you bring in new fans. If you're lucky, a good portion of that new fanbase will stick around after the athlete has passed their prime the way golf fans did.
If the majority of new fans insist legal screens result in felony prison time, many old fans will eventually tune out. Not even exaggerating with majority. Look up an ig or yt video of Stewart screening their princess, they’re ready to kill and/or imprison somebody for a textbook screen.
That particular ugly aspect is unprecedented vs say Mia Hamm or Tiger, the irrational psychotic overprotectiveness. It’s not CC’s fault, more do to social media culture and leadership culture vs a couple decades ago.
Yes, we live in the age of cults. You want to ruin your life for a few weeks? Post something negative about Taylor Swift on social media.
Maria Sharapova - 5 time major winner, one time SI swimsuit model, current business woman, and total babe.
So what you're saying is that it's not an easy job and it's massively underappreciated...maybe tell crybabies in here that.
The producer of the Murph and Andy show tried to eat and entire tub of ******* cheeseballs for clout on their show.
Feels like that job is being properly appreciated.
