Why can't the WNBA stop hemorrhaging money? Why can't we, as a society, pull the plug on the WNBA? I'm totally fine with professional women's basketball, but give up televising it, marketing it, and playing it in huge venues. You would have to pay me to go to a WNBA game, the amount would probably be around $100. If the NBA didn't have the NBA's financial support, this whole charade would be over. It's the equivalent of digging a hole, throwing money (millions of dollars) into it, then lighting it on fire every year for 15 years. It's a monumental failure. It's the same reason that college athletes can't get paid, because most college sports puke money out while men's college basketball and football bring home cash from huge TV contracts. You can't pay JUST men's basketball and football players money, so nobody gets anything and Title IX destroys any chance at true parity by forcing women's sports to get equal everything as men's sports, but minor detail, there is NO women's sport on the planet that is equal to football in cost, participation, or revenue. This forces men's wrestling, swimming, tennis, baseball, and track & field to get cut to lower men's participation so numbers look equal and therefore, Title IX compliant.
I'm just preaching now, but it's ridiculous to make men's and women's sports "equal". I am 100% behind women's sports, they just aren't on par with men's sports. Why would it be unfair for them to receive less money and funding since they lose a lot more money than their male counterparts?
Couldn't agree more-I actually forgot the WNBA was still around...it had been transported into the world known as "The Butt of the Joke."
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