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The last three years, you could say we were a football school. A few years before that, you could say we were a (men's) basketball school, and a little before that, you could say we were a hockey school. But now, with all the success our women's teams have provided, I guess we're now a women's sports school. The women's basketball team is coming off a MAC title and NCAA Tournament appearance last year and is off to a great start this year, the women's soccer team has been to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments, the softball team won the MAC title and went to the NCAA Tournament a year ago, etc.,......and on the other side the preseason MAC favorite football team went 6-5, the men's basketball team hasn't won the MAC Tournament ever and hasn't been to the NCAA Tournament since 1968, the soccer team has won about four games in the last two years, and the hockey team has fallen way off in the CCHA. I love the success our ladies are having, but we've got to pick it up on the men's side too.

But great job ladies, keep it up!

I like bringing attention to the success of the women's teams, but since this is the Women's Sports forum afterall, perhaps we should keep it focused on the positives of the women's teams and not use this as a chance to dig on the men's teams.

Plus, I thought BG was known as a "Crayfish Research Institution"?

I thought we were known as the "cornfield, treeless, party school"

Oh, I thought we were known as that STD school.

No, No were known as that school in KY.

UK Peregrine wrote:Oh, I thought we were known as that STD school.

haha my cousin told me that

UK Peregrine wrote:I like bringing attention to the success of the women's teams, but since this is the Women's Sports forum afterall, perhaps we should keep it focused on the positives of the women's teams and not use this as a chance to dig on the men's teams.

It's not a dig on the men's teams, it's a reflection of the "facts." But like I said above, great job in these women's sports BG. I just wish we had this kind of success on both sides and that we could balance things out with the men's teams as well.....too bad Title IX doesn't work that way too.

We're a teacher's college.......I'm hot for teacher.

David Lee Roth sure did get old, didn't he.

That there isn't more people and students coming to the games. Guys like Hammb keep saying watching ladies basketball is just plain boring, and I would normall agree if we were talking WNBA or something wich I can't get behind yet at all. But watching your hometown team is different , it feels like your apart of the action and fun.

Maybe if a BG ladies player ever made into the WNBA I might watch a little to see how that player does like I do with Daniels & Mcleod. Its just sad that the only fans in the AA making any noise are the Anderson Animals which includes folks like myself and Metzger and Tyler Sworden certain others.

falconboy wrote:That there isn't more people and students coming to the games. Guys like Hammb keep saying watching ladies basketball is just plain boring, and I would normall agree if we were talking WNBA or something wich I can't get behind yet at all. But watching your hometown team is different , it feels like your apart of the action and fun.

Maybe if a BG ladies player ever made into the WNBA I might watch a little to see how that player does like I do with Daniels & Mcleod. Its just sad that the only fans in the AA making any noise are the Anderson Animals which includes folks like myself and Metzger and Tyler Sworden certain others.

I agree it would be nice to see more people at the women's games, but the fact of the matter is - and this is is not a cut on women's sports - but most people would just rather watch men's games. They just do. Now there are exceptions, like at places such as Tennessee, but it's the same at almost every single school, and it's also why men's games are all over TV much, much more than women's. The interest levels are not the same.

What I will say I really liked about the women's games for a little while when I was in school was they had men's and women's doubleheaders. I saw more women's games in one year that way than I did all seasons combined. They had a women's game first, followed by a men's game. I would usually show up in the first half of the women's game and stayed the rest of the way through the men's game. For some of the bigger men's games, we used to get a huge crowd for the women's game because of people coming early to get their seats. They went away from that years ago, but I for one liked the idea. I always thought it was better for the women's team to get more people that way, than to get fewer this way. But I'm sure their reasons of why to change it work better for them now.

I'm hoping all this success will start getting more students out to the game. I really don't expect the community to come much besides friends and family of the players. It's worth noting that we do have a fantastic home and road following from the player's families. There are and have been a lot of fantastic parents over the past 4-5 years.

if we can double or triple the student attendance (wouldn't be that hard given the current number), we could create a great home-court advantage. Remember, these ladies from other school are used to playing in quiet, empty gyms. if we can get a loud environment, like we did for a couple games last year, we can blow people out of AA. After one of the more well attended games last year (EMU I believe), The coaches and players from both teams attributed much of the outcome to the crowd presence.

Wouldn't it be great if we could create that atmosphere for every home game?

Believe me, I am definitely a part of the crowd that thinks women's sports suck. I think overall they are about like watching paint dry. I fell asleep in MSG for a WNBA game years back. In general, I hate watching women's sports. But this team is different. They are exciting to watch. And above all, they are good....real good. Combine that with the fact that they are a BG team and should be supported simply for that reason, and you've got a team that is extremely watchable. We need to get more people at these games because this team deserves it.

I will say that after covering the BG volleyball team I got hooked. I attended matches even after I stopped covering the team.

Coach Van DeWalle is a real treasure for BG and I hope the university does something very special when she decides to hang it up, which I hope is a long way down the road.

1987alum wrote:I will say that after covering the BG volleyball team I got hooked. I attended matches even after I stopped covering the team.

And I'm sure the spandex shorts played no small part in your addiction.

Bleeding Orange wrote:

1987alum wrote:I will say that after covering the BG volleyball team I got hooked. I attended matches even after I stopped covering the team.

And I'm sure the spandex shorts played no small part in your addiction.

Bleeding Orange wrote:

1987alum wrote:I will say that after covering the BG volleyball team I got hooked. I attended matches even after I stopped covering the team.

And I'm sure the spandex shorts played no small part in your addiction.

And by going there you are perpetrating the idea that women's sports cannot sell themselves without sex. Great. I thought this thread was about how great our 7-0 women's basketball team was....