tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14100987.post612917824563733046..comments2024-01-12T15:30:29.411-05:00Comments on After Atalanta: Varsity versus club sportskenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09975351996302093224noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14100987.post-39640417211931620742008-12-11T15:41:00.000-05:002008-12-11T15:41:00.000-05:00Aaron,You speak as if no women's teams have ever b...Aaron,<BR/>You speak as if no women's teams have ever been cut. Head to NH and ask the women's crew team how they like being a club sport. Or to JMU where the archery team is a (quite successful if we're talking win-loss) club sport. There's been very little research on club sports and their role and structure.<BR/>And remember that it is very difficult to counter the dominant view that varsity sports are the be-all, end-all of sport participation. Students who have grown up playing competitive sports certainly are taught to seek out varsity sports at the college level. Club sports are seen as second-class, at best. If you're a young woman playing competitive sports you've probably been told, by the Liberal American society in which we live, that you are equal and you deserve an equal slice of the pie--even the varsity sports pie. And so they seek it out. They want the same recognition, the same treatment as their male peers. <BR/>And they probably think they have something to prove to all those people out there who believe girls are not good at and not interested in sports.krishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00253304688174621216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14100987.post-10241604359846179542008-12-11T13:22:00.000-05:002008-12-11T13:22:00.000-05:00Sooo.. if playing club sports is all you portray i...Sooo.. if playing club sports is all you portray it, then why did so many girls fight to be varsity sports? Why was Title IX applied to sports the girls already had the best solution - club teams? and if club teams are so great, why don't we hear about more girls going back to club teams and renounce Title IX quotas? <BR/><BR/>Instead, as you point out there are a great deal more men's club teams and you blame that on the 20 guys playing football. What on Earth does that have to do with the number of guys wanting to play soccer? It's Title IX quotas that link the two. It's just as appropriate to blame the 20 girls who decided to be dancers as it is to blame the football players. Some how you missed that though.<BR/><BR/>Oh.. and a final thought.. why does the girls' soccer team get to complain if the boys' parents build them a concession stand, but then the boys don't get to complain when they don't get the same number of soccer scholarships that the girls do or when the whole soccer team gets cut? Seems to me, if the girls teams are going to compare themselves to the boys teams, they should in good and in bad.<BR/><BR/>But that would mean they were treated equally, and heaven forbid we have that.<BR/><BR/><BR/>I'm sure those girls would have a wonderful time on their club team when they get cut just like the boys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com