by Schmick » Fri Mar 08, 2019 3:22 pm
There is no great idea involving pro women's fastpitch.
College and International play will continue to be the pinnacle of the sport.
Society does not support professional women's team sports. Forcing men's sports to subsidize them stops at the university level because as of now, the socialist feminists taking over our country have not yet applied title ix to pro sports leagues.
Until you see a fundamental shift in our society and can drive past a park and see a handful of girls, with no parents and no coaches around, out playing softball (or soccer or basketball....) you're never going to see a viable pro women's spftball league.
Look at soccer, the women's US national soccer team were the darlings of the sports world, they packed 100,000 seat stadiums in the US on the way to winning the world cup. They got people to sink millions in to a woman's pro soccer league. And that money did just that, sank. When you took away the USA vs the World, play for national pride, you took away the American Sports fans desire to watch girls play soccer.
College softball works because
A. Title ix feeds money in to the facilities, coaching staffs, scholarships. Without title ix, and if left to themselves to fund, how many universities have self sufficient softball programs?
B. Most college sports fans support all of that college's sports teams. Often they went to the school or sent their kids to the school. They take pride in the school and support it's whole athletic department.
A woman's pro softball league has neither the title ix subsidies or they loyal fan base tied to school pride. It's why the npf or whatever it's called has failed so miserably.
Trying to change that by starting with a pro league is a waste of time, resources and money, look at the wnba. What needs to change is society and human nature and I have no ability or idea on how to do that, nor any want to if I had.
We did ask the girls on my DDs team last year in Colorado if they would rather see a women's softball game or go see the Colorado Rockies play the gnats at Coors Field while we were up there. 100% of them chose Rockies vs gnats. What hope does pro softball have if even travel softball players would rather go watch baseball?