this is seriously one of the DUMBEST takes this message board has ever had. Probably going to get banned for saying this, but come on... this is such a whiney little baby take about it. Clark is a good player - you can chose not to like her because she's a hawkeye, but saying she's not doing anything for the sport is just being dismissive of the last year of women's basketball. Grow up.I don't listen to sports radio, never have, nor do I follow these goons on (or even use) social media... but I'm pretty sure all but those invested in women's basketball or Hawk fans with nothing else to celebrate moved on long ago.
Yep, she has fans - most athletes do. She did nothing earth shattering for the sport, she just played great and got away with poor sportsmanship because she's white and created controversy because her opponent did the same thing and was black.
Iowa is such a pathetic media state - U of Iowa has always been the bell cow and anything the media can grab onto, they will run into the ground. You combine a Hawkeye story with a female and they go apeshit for months. I understand they have to fill coverage with something, but there are a lot of great stories out there right now they don't touch.
this is seriously one of the DUMBEST takes this message board has ever had. Probably going to get banned for saying this, but come on... this is such a whiney little baby take about it. Clark is a good player - you can chose not to like her because she's a hawkeye, but saying she's not doing anything for the sport is just being dismissive of the last year of women's basketball. Grow up.
What the **** are you talking about? Caitlin Clark is just as hot as Olivia Dunne, you dumb ************My son saw Olivia Dunn and bodyguards at the CWS in Omaha. I would rather see her than Clark anyday of the week.
I can't believe some of you people cannot clearly observe, as do I and the rest of the TavernClark's, that Caitlin Clark is not only one of the most important athletes of all-time, but she is also probably the greatest American in history (especially given all that she has overcome).
Don't forget that hawk "journalist" who said she's better than MJ. LoL
She’s bringing some eyes but evidence shows those eyes will turn away when she’s gone (see Ionescu for example). I love when WBB gets attention, but I’m a firm believer that she’s very cocky and takes away from what the TEAM accomplished this year.this is seriously one of the DUMBEST takes this message board has ever had. Probably going to get banned for saying this, but come on... this is such a whiney little baby take about it. Clark is a good player - you can chose not to like her because she's a hawkeye, but saying she's not doing anything for the sport is just being dismissive of the last year of women's basketball. Grow up.
Keep digging that hole. Maybe you can make it on Message Board Geniuses twice in 24 hours.She’s bringing some eyes but evidence shows those eyes will turn away when she’s gone (see Ionescu for example). I love when WBB gets attention, but I’m a firm believer that she’s very cocky and takes away from what the TEAM accomplished this year. Yes, elite player, but there are elite players all the time, what exactly makes her standout performance so much better than those before her? She isn’t the second coming and savior of all things WBB like to make her seem like.
The information that someone shared earlier showed that Oregon attendance is still nearly 4x as high as it was before Ionescu was there.She’s bringing some eyes but evidence shows those eyes will turn away when she’s gone (see Ionescu for example). I love when WBB gets attention, but I’m a firm believer that she’s very cocky and takes away from what the TEAM accomplished this year.
Yes, elite player, but there are elite players every few years, what exactly makes her standout performance so much bigger for the sport than those before her? She isn’t the second coming of Christ and savior of all things WBB like many try to make her seem like.
Sorry but I think you're trying a little too hard to downplay what she did.She’s bringing some eyes but evidence shows those eyes will turn away when she’s gone (see Ionescu for example). I love when WBB gets attention, but I’m a firm believer that she’s very cocky and takes away from what the TEAM accomplished this year.
Yes, elite player, but there are elite players every few years, what exactly makes her standout performance so much bigger for the sport than those before her? She isn’t the second coming of Christ and savior of all things WBB like many try to make her seem like.
Fair. Like I said, she is elite and it shows. I don’t like the antics and showboating so naturally lump the good with the bad, maybe unfairly so.Sorry but I think you're trying a little too hard to downplay what she did.
- only player in WBB NCAA tourney history to record back-to-back 40-point games
- first WBB player to score 1,000 points and 300 assists in a season
- most points ever in a women's NCAA tourney semifinal (41), against a pretty good South Carolina team
- most 3-pointers in a women's NCAA championship game ever (8)
- most assists in a women's NCAA tourney (60) beating the previous record by 10
- she scored or assisted on ALL 18 of Iowa's 4th quarter points in the win over South Carolina
- drew 9.9 million viewers for title game, peaking at 12.6 million; the previous year drew 4.9 million
- praised by Lebron, Magic, Curry, Mahomes and others
I do think some of her on-court antics are off-putting, never been a fan of trash talk. But to downplay the impact of her season and tourney and try saying it's no different from other WBB stars who've come and gone misses the mark IMO.
Back to 5,600 this past year.
Not even as hot as Angel Reese.What the **** are you talking about? Caitlin Clark is just as hot as Olivia Dunne, you dumb ************
I predict that we won't have to wait until Clark is gone to see a significant decline in attendance in Iowa City. If they end up in the middle of the Big 10 pack, lots of their "fans" won't show up this year. It was the big wins and front-running status, not just the dramatic play of Clark that brought their band-wagon fans to Carver-Hokeye Arena.
The men’s had 15 million and I can’t tell you who a single player on SDSU team is/was.
Nor a player on UCONN and I watched a couple games of theirs.
Not surprisingly the Iowa fan doxing me is on the Iowa Sex Offender Registry.
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