1. High school coaches who (must) ride the bus with the team, take kids home, buy them food, handle jersey and shoe sizes for ordering, organize fundraisers, yell and scream, give love, provide band-aids and pre-wrap, and a bunch of other things.
2. Junior college coaches who have to drive the van to tournaments. And a bunch of other things.
3. D I coaches who twitter. It shows they love their team.
4. WNBA owners who throw MVP parties for season ticket holders, who don't let their general managers make idiot moves, and who don't close up shop out of the blue.
5. D II and D III coaches. They are underappreciated.
6. The sound of squeaking shoes and referee whistles when you walk into a tournament. Best sound in the world.
7. The fact that female basketball players, for the most part, get along just fine - if they don't outright love each other - regardless of sexual orientation. You can't say the same for male basketball players.
8. Title IX.
9. Seeing more women's college games on TV.
10. The increasing respect for the women's game. We've come a long way since Kim Mulkey, with the braid, was playing with Louisiana Tech in the first NCAA championship game in 1982 (I remember that well).
Happy Thanksgiving!
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good list, sass. gotta give kim her props, she's grown up to be quite a D1 coach.
i have a bullet point to add: we should all be thankful for the dedication to the womens' game that sass exhibits. you're the best!
HAPPY TURKEY DAY TO ALL!!!
see you soon. wouldn't you know it, not one bb game at uw, su, or spu while you're up here. sheesh.
scullyfu
Thank you, scully. You've got to be the best fan ever.
And I noticed that about the basketball games. I'm irritated. Will be fiercely jonesin. Thank goodness there's a great JC tourney in town christmas weekend featuring my favorite JC and PG.
there's a jc tourney in sea-town? do tell. :)
scullyfu
All I know is it's at Highline Community College. Maybe our get-together could be there? Hmmmmm......
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