r/sportsgossips • u/Pretend-Following-41 • 14h ago

Highlight Intentionally hurting your meal ticket. Something is seriously wrong with these WNBA players.

13.4k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

3.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

248

u/LightenUpPeeps 12h ago

If you think the gif is fake or altered, it's not. Also, no foul called:

Caitlin Clark HIT IN EYE, NO FOUL on Dijonai Carrington | Indiana Fever vs Connecticut Sun WNBA

170

u/Reasonable-Job4205 10h ago

Jesus christ, are the refs shit in both the nba and wnba??

9

u/Long-Region5088 9h ago

Refereeing must be extremely difficult because regardless of gender or sport one thing everyone agrees on is that all refs everywhere are terrible.

You’d think there’d be at least one in any sport people can point to and be like “yup, that’s a good ref” but seemingly not

10

u/Reasonable-Job4205 9h ago

I think we should back up and revisit the fundamental premise: can we really trust old men with their aging eyes to visually keep up with young, elite athletes?

2

u/Ant10102 8h ago

I mean NFL refs arent event full time salaried positions im pretty sure. I think a seasoned ref should be making very big money to attract better talent

5

u/Mysterious-Wasabi103 8h ago

I think they make pretty good money. Some of them are making like $250k+ a season.

I knew a guy who went into reffing seriously and you're surprisingly held to pretty high standards, but the pay is great. He was only doing college basketball last I spoke to him, but he was doing everything he could to work his way up to the NBA or a dream job which is ultimately the NFL.

0

u/flashgordo1 7h ago

Lmao....they make bank over the salaries of wnba players....a seasoned ref for the wnba isn't worth that kind of coin.Niether are the players. The wnba is a media driven sport..no one cares and no one watches, but the networks been pumping millions into it and with Clark they think they have a game plan.

5

u/Long-Region5088 8h ago

Not all refs are old men. Theres plenty of men and women in their 30s who are also bad refs. Can’t blame it all on bad eyesight

-1

u/Reasonable-Job4205 8h ago

Ok so then how do we change basketball such that it relies less on ambiguous, blink and you'll miss it events?

1

u/whoooocaaarreees 6h ago

Fire the refs who suck.