A guys v. girls sports debate

[NajdorfDefense]

Episcopal would have slaughtered any women's team.

[SomethingClever]

I'm pretty sure the team at my high school would have beaten any WNBA team.

We did have Mike Doleac and Matt Santangelo though.

[MCS]

I'd take the women's team by a moderate amount.

[antidan444]

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A very good HS boys team will beat any women's college team. For example, my HS won the Pennyslvania AAAA Championship last year. AAAA is the largest division. That team had two kids who are now playing significant time in DI this year as freshman. A HS team like that would simply be too strong and athletic for the women.

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QFT. I've seen Harrisburg play (a very strong Pa. AAAA team) and I have to believe they would beat any college women's team just because of the size/strength/athleticism edges.

That being said, I could see the Duke women beating a Pa. Class AA middle-of-the-road team relatively easily. I guess that's be the best comparison to New York Class B, which I'm not familiar with.

[DrewDevil]

You guys are all severely underestimating how bad women suck at sports. Seriously. I worked in sports media for several years and the Texas women's team had a bunch of student manager scrubs that they used to scrimmage against. The guys would beat the women every time if they didn't hold back, and the Texas women were in the top 10 at the time.

Any decent high school boys' team would destroy a team of WNBA all-stars 100 times out of 100. Hell, pick 5 guys off the court at just about any decent pickup court in a big city and they'd run the WNBAers off the court.

There's simply no comparison.

When Chris Evert was a dominant #1 women's player, she was married for a time to John Lloyd, a pro men's player. He was usually ranked between 150th and 250th in the world, and I don't believe he ever was ranked higher than 100th. They used to play competitive tennis at least once a week, best 2 out of 3 sets, at full strength.

Do you know how many times she beat him? Zero. Never. In fact, she said she never really came close.

There is a vas deferens between men's and women's sports.

[UATrewqaz]

The worst thing about watching women's sports (if you are ever subjected to such misery) is the utter lack of fire and grit they show. They barely even look like they care what the score is or who wins. When down 20 points, some girl makes a little layup and her teammates all surround her high fiving and woo'ing like they all accomplished something.

A+ in encouraging of teammates
F in any and ever other category you can think of

[AngusThermopyle]

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When down 20 points, some guy makes a little dunk and his teammates all surround him high fiving and woo'ing like they all accomplished something.

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Sorry, this would never happen in men's sports.

[UATrewqaz]

It happens, but much more rarely. Girls have a pep ralley after every made free throw.

It's every bit as stupid in guy's sports too. Like when a guy gets a sack down 40 points and does his little sack dance.

[Thremp]

2 levels of talent rule:

High School -> College -> Pro

Take a woman's pro team and let them grind it out against a high school team.


If I was only a girl, I'd be playing soccer at UNC. Beat: I'd likely be a dyke.

[cognito20]

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You guys are all severely underestimating how bad women suck at sports. Seriously. I worked in sports media for several years and the Texas women's team had a bunch of student manager scrubs that they used to scrimmage against. The guys would beat the women every time if they didn't hold back, and the Texas women were in the top 10 at the time.

Any decent high school boys' team would destroy a team of WNBA all-stars 100 times out of 100. Hell, pick 5 guys off the court at just about any decent pickup court in a big city and they'd run the WNBAers off the court.

There's simply no comparison.

When Chris Evert was a dominant #1 women's player, she was married for a time to John Lloyd, a pro men's player. He was usually ranked between 150th and 250th in the world, and I don't believe he ever was ranked higher than 100th. They used to play competitive tennis at least once a week, best 2 out of 3 sets, at full strength.

Do you know how many times she beat him? Zero. Never. In fact, she said she never really came close.

There is a vas deferens between men's and women's sports.

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That's not quite the same issue though. Chris Evert's husband, although he was not a very good pro, was a pro nevertheless. I am not disputing whether a professional male athlete, however marginal, could take out the world's best woman. Of course he could. Make the question "could Chris Evert in her prime beat a state boys high school tennis champion (or maybe the Division III NCAA men's champion)?" and it becomes a lot more interesting, and the answer not quite as pat. I suppose in the case of the above question, knowing the state the guy was the HS champion of would make a big difference, as the Florida, Texas, and California state champions >>>>>>>> in quality over New York, New Hampshire, North Dakota state champions due to climate, training opportunities, etc.

--Scott