Yes. Too expensive to build different facilities even if you wanted to. Also, the vast majority of sports are performed by both sexes and use the same equipment/fields/room, etc. (With a very few exceptions like gymnastics.)
Ok, didn’t realize it was different cities. It still absurd to think they don’t have the same kind of facilities available in San Antonio as Indianapolis. This is no minor difference in facilities, this is absolutely absurd. And it is the kind of thing that can be fixed within hours. Has it? Is there no weight equipment in San Antonio?
They’re also using a lesser COVID test for the women than they are the men. So the inequity rolls on.
Yes, you could indeed care less. For instance, you could have cared so little that you didn’t bother to open a thread about it. Don’t threadshit.
While I have some understanding for this point of view the athletes are technically amateurs and so should be treated accordingly (i.e. equally).
I was wondering why this hadn’t been bigger news but I saw CNN do a piece on it. This looks like some major piece of nonfeasance by somebody who I’m sure is making too much money for doing almost nothing. Really doing way almost nothing at all in this case. But whatever happened it illustrates a problem. NCAA is not federally funded and doesn’t have to conform to Title IX but the schools participating in this tournament do and shouldn’t stand for it.
When I was in junior high, I read Zanbanger, a novel by R. R. Knudson about a girl who is disgusted by how her high school basketball team is treated, vs. the way the boys’ team is treated. For example, when the locker rooms are renovated, the boys get the latest amenities. The girls get a mirror and a scale. The main character joins the boys’ team.
The book was written in 1977, and yet here we are, in 2021 and in reality.
Well, there’s the problem. Texas just isn’t that interested in sports, so you can’t expect the facilities there to be national-level quality.
/sarcasm
I still wonder how much equipment is actually needed. Sure, that amount and difference was insulting. But half the teams are done in a day. Three quarters are gone in three days. And then there’s a week off, and the remaining teams play one or two games in three days. And repeat. I can’t imagine there’s a lot of heavy lifting going on the day before the game or on the day. I’d expect light lifting and more cardio, so fewer weights of any kind and more treadmills/ellipticals/stationary bikes. How wrong am I? And how early do the teams show up, anyway?
Well, here’s a video of the Stanford team working out. The Mic’ed up conditioning coach Ali Kershner is the one who first reported the disparity.
The NCAA needs to go away.
Bumping this because the NCAA hired a law firm to tell them what was pretty obvious; that the NCAA treats women’s basketball much more poorly than it does men’s basketball. (Paywalled Washington Post article here.) The article says, “The report, released Tuesday by the law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, recommends serious reforms to the NCAA’s basketball programs, including a combined Final Four tournament for men and women and changes in the organization’s leadership structure, media contracts and revenue payments.”