Several months back, the sports world, well I should say people interested in women’s sports, were all in a tizzy when the head coach of University of Connecticut’s Women’s Basketball Team, Gino Auriemma, suggested that in order to attract more fans/viewers of women’s basketball, the rim needed to be lowered about 7in. (Read his comments here) As you can imagine, and though he was not the first to make this suggestion, people’s opinions ranged from variations “that’s the worst idea ever,” to “yes, that’ll save women’s basketball,” and everything in between. After a discussion about this very topic with a coworker just last week, I decided to share my two cents.
While I am not diametrically opposed to or wholeheartedly in support of lowering the rim, I do think that less drastic and less controversial things could be done to improve the level of play and interest in the game of wome...
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