Comments on: Solo, Scurry, and the USWNT – JordanCornblog Weighs In http://www.jordancornblog.com/solo-scurry-and-the-uswnt-jordancornblog-weighs-in/ Just what you've been waiting for ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JordanCornblog http://www.jordancornblog.com/solo-scurry-and-the-uswnt-jordancornblog-weighs-in/comment-page-1/#comment-421 JordanCornblog Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:51:20 +0000 http://www.jordancornblog.com/solo-scurry-and-the-uswnt-jordancornblog-weighs-in/#comment-421 I've wondered about that, too and wish that someone (you perhaps?) would write about that old(er), more marginalized USWNT from an academic/sociological perspective. It seemed a wonderful convergence of opportunities, challenges, unique team leaders, and maybe a coach (DiCicco) who was unusually enlightened. But then the very thing that made it all "wonderful" in my eyes may have exacerbated the challenges faced by the up-and-comers. Included among those challenges ... a much less insulated and homogeneous team where issues like those you explicated would, I imagine, become potentially more divisive. Throw in the WUSA, the bizarre (and perhaps punishing) coaching choices of the USSF, the ongoing interplay of personalities, the retirements of key players (key as leaders more than for their field play in the end), the changes in the national political climate ... and I think it would be a real potboiler of a case study! Maybe what it boils down to is a reflection of the dangers of success ... ;) I’ve wondered about that, too and wish that someone (you perhaps?) would write about that old(er), more marginalized USWNT from an academic/sociological perspective. It seemed a wonderful convergence of opportunities, challenges, unique team leaders, and maybe a coach (DiCicco) who was unusually enlightened.

But then the very thing that made it all “wonderful” in my eyes may have exacerbated the challenges faced by the up-and-comers. Included among those challenges … a much less insulated and homogeneous team where issues like those you explicated would, I imagine, become potentially more divisive.

Throw in the WUSA, the bizarre (and perhaps punishing) coaching choices of the USSF, the ongoing interplay of personalities, the retirements of key players (key as leaders more than for their field play in the end), the changes in the national political climate … and I think it would be a real potboiler of a case study! Maybe what it boils down to is a reflection of the dangers of success … ;)

]]> By: Jennifer Doyle http://www.jordancornblog.com/solo-scurry-and-the-uswnt-jordancornblog-weighs-in/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Jennifer Doyle Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:01:20 +0000 http://www.jordancornblog.com/solo-scurry-and-the-uswnt-jordancornblog-weighs-in/#comment-419 thanks for engaging my blog article - i really enjoyed reading this post, and very much agree regarding the USWNT from years past, and the way they fought for equal pay, and, well, just the team they were. maybe part of the difference is how marginalized they were in the beginning? that those women from the earlier team configurations saw the sport through its transition, where the current players deal with the stress of being *so* dominant, and also relatively public? anyway, it's good to have thoughtful commentary on this stuff. thanks for engaging my blog article – i really enjoyed reading this post, and very much agree regarding the USWNT from years past, and the way they fought for equal pay, and, well, just the team they were. maybe part of the difference is how marginalized they were in the beginning? that those women from the earlier team configurations saw the sport through its transition, where the current players deal with the stress of being *so* dominant, and also relatively public? anyway, it’s good to have thoughtful commentary on this stuff.

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