Time for a Real Discussion About Caitlin Clark
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Second game. First game coverage will be "How will Iowa do without the great CC". Second game is, "they are still playing?"
Third game might be…. how can we entice people to come to these games again? Free beer?
Not my viewpoint. Just posting because of the national attention.
babylonbee.com
Caitlin Clark Canonized As Saint After Performing Miracle Of Making Women's Basketball Watchable
ALBANY, NY — Thousands of fans in attendance and millions of television viewers were witnesses to history, as Caitlin Clark was canonized as a saint after performing the miracle of making women's basketball watchable.
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Still is. Being Cyclones there is still booing but way less swearing
I think this is related to this thread:
They turned off the comments. Safe to say this wasn't their best business strategy. Absolutely pathetic for an Ames establishment that's only popularity is tied to the Cyclones to be posting something like this.
I can't wait for them to lose. The state needs it.
They turned off the comments. Safe to say this wasn't their best business strategy. Absolutely pathetic for an Ames establishment that's only popularity is tied to the Cyclones to be posting something like this.
I can't wait for them to lose. The state needs it.
That weird bullying thing is still very much alive and strong.
If they just would have said…. “…. come cheer on UConn!”…. then they would have been on to something.
If I’m a true Cyclone…. no way I’m going to that place tonight. It will be full of Hawk fans.
It's a part of many Hawkeyes fans personalities at any age. It's one of the things I enjoy most about living out of state. I don't run into any tavern hoks.
Or just supporting women's bball on the whole after ISU had their nice season by watching the Final Four with no teams mentioned.
Most out of state Iowa games I run into are pretty realistic and not disparaging of ISU all that much.
It's weird how that changes locally.
I’d be more likely to be interested in Clark if it wasn’t shoved down my throat at every turn.
Up until the Sweet 16 there were 2 teams in this state who were ranked in the top 10, finished 2nd in their conference, and won their conference tournament. Did 13 send Keith Murphy to any of our games? Did we get a 30 minute special on KCCI?
Clark deserves a lot of attention. But I will be happy when it’s over.
The media interest is in Clark not Iowa Women’s Basketball. As soon as her season is done the media will focus on what’s next for her which might be the Olympics, WNBA, ICE cubes dreams, etc. I’ve listened to how Soccer will be the next big thing in the US sports arena and it hasn’t happened and never will, too boring low scoring. Same way with the WNBA until they can dunk it, it’s kinda like DII & DIII men’s sports. Not as athletic so isn’t considered top tier.
If Iowa is just average and ISU is top ten it'll get almost zero coverage.
Yesterday Fales was talking about how awesome it is that Garza gets to come back and play a preseason game in Des Moines and how its's gonna be Garza-palooza insanity. He's local even though he grew up on the east coast. Four year ISU starter Monte Morris somehow isn't local and you'd never even know he's on the same team.
Even in a bench role Monte has already produced more in a quarter season for the TWolves than Garza has in his entire career. He's an all time leader in all sorts of ISU and Big 12 stats.
Local media is Hawkeye media...that's why this site has 100x more activity than any Iowa board ever has or will have.
When it comes to covering famous female athletes from this state in general Murph's work has been cringeworthy. I didn't think anything would ever be as bad as his Shawn Johnson coverage but damn if this isnt giving it a run for its money.
It seems to me there are ways to defend Clark. The step-back is a problem if you don't see it coming. But sticking with her,picking her up at half court, denying the ball at times and just hounding her would be good. Her passing is a problem but stick on her teammates. Play tough. Coach Geno knows all this and more but,good grief, put a clamp on her.
