This is the argument for me. And this is where people bristle when they are called out for not wanting the women to get paid fairly. It's not an anti-woman stance... it's looking at it terms of the Revenue delivered by each competition. Now as i learn more i understand there may be some nuance, but I believe the revenue disparity is what most people look at.
Perhaps a more apt comparison would be that Wake gets less money for making the Final Four of the College World Series than for the NCAA Basketball tournament. Is that fair to baseball?
You really want to compare the US women and men's teams, Biff? Are you really that insecure in your manhood that you are triggered by stating the obvious about the men's team?
C'mon Biff, do you really want to compare our men's and women's histories? I think our women have won 4 and been runners-up once, whereas our men have never made it past the round of 16. And with GGG as our coash moving forward, we probably won't do any better even though we now have our most talented teams. Our women are out in that same round of 16 now because we sucked ass for 3 games and were rewarded with Sweden instead of RSA. Sweden is an elite team, and we finally changed tactics, played a quality game and frankly outplayed Sweden for 120:00. I think most of our frustrations are with coaching and why it took them till their 4th game to finally show up.
I think that's fair. I also think the point of contention is the dissemination of USSF created dollars. Here there's less of a gap in revenue generation, and an argument can be made that the USWNT out earns the USMNT (they have been comparable and USWNT has brought a little more in from match attendance recently, as mentioned before there's no data to show which team is driving the licensing $$). Is this money being divided equitably?
All of it is very reasonable discussion.
I'm old, but not that old. But I'd accept a friendly amendment to my last post saying in the last 90 years. Wasn't 1930 the 1st WC?
Yes it was - I think it was only 10 teams as well.
That's because other countries presidents weren't as progressive as Richard Nixon when he signed Title 9 into existence, and yes, we've had a competitive advantage over other countries in women's athletics over the last 30-40 years. But that advantage has been disappearing. It started in northern Europe, China and Japan, and now it's getting to southern Europe, Australia, Africa and South America. This is the best Spain squad I've ever seen, Nigeria outplayed England today, and RSA, Jamaica and Morocco made the knockouts. We can no longer continue making it to the knockouts by just having superior athletes, playing folks who are over the hill and not being able to string more than 2-3 passes together at a time and were a post away from not making it this year. So with the rest of the world catching up or having already caught up, I think we're at least comparing red apples to green apples these days. Hell, I thought Germany was the best team heading into this thing, and they didn't make the knockouts. And I in no way am trying to disparage the USMNT, other than Berhalter. We were in a bad place in 2018, but this young generation is some of the best talent we've put out there.
We beat Mexico in the R16 and then faced Germany in the quarters. I think we outplayed them. Torsten Frings handled the ball on the goal line to keep a goal out that would have equalized.
If they hadn't fucking murdered Tab Ramos, we may have had a slightly better chance.
