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[QUOTE="PeteCalvin, post: 5741194, member: 439"]
And that first sentence is the problem with the women’s game.  Not much parity to be had.  All chalk.  The talking heads like to hype it up that there is depth of competition, but there is still a huge gap between the name programs and even the next tier.  There might be two or three real serious contenders each year, and two more who are very close.  But the parity is a fantasy.  Parity in the men’s game is bought these days.

I think the women’s game will start morphing to something more like the men’s game (not good) if and when more $$ is invested by donors.  On the one side, you may see some new power teams move up and others start to drop, with a new shuffle at the top each year.  On the other, it’ll be a world of losing favorite players every year, and programs that were already struggling to develop identities and draw fans will be that much farther in the hole.  I’m sure there were fans here that were looking forward to watching Burrows and Potts and Shy next season.  Now what?  How do you market your team when everyone leaves?

One final point, I really hate what the terrible officiating has turned the women’s game into.  The level of physicality they allow only sours the purity of the game.  It’s like when the NHL and NBA of the early 90’s allowed the goons to take out the stars.  The games became slugfests.  I used to tell my middle school and JV boys teams in the late 90’s if they really wanted to see the basics done right (screens, passing, etc.) watch D1 women’s college games.  I fear that game will be gone with the WNBA’s fascination with roller derby.
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