Well ... duh

 Kudos to the likes of Jane McManus and Sally Jenkins, two of the finer sports journalists working the gig these days, for highlighting the work of Kapler Hecker & Fink LLP, which is not a comedy troupe and is certainly no joke for the NCAA.

What Kapler Heckler & Fink LLP has done is release a report entitled NCAA External Gender Equity Review, which reveals the NCAA's gender equity initiatives as themselves a joke.

Read all about it from McManus here, and Jenkins here.

And then permit the Blob its own rather cynical judgment:

Well ... duh.

Because we really didn't need Kapler Heckler & Fink LLP to tell us the NCAA's priority is chasing the buck, and everything else is empty-calorie blather. All we needed was one social media post back in March from one pissed-off young woman to reveal just how little the NCAA thought of the women's Final Four in relation to the cash-cow men's Final Four.

The pissed-off young woman was named Sedona Prince, a forward for the Oregon Ducks, who pointed out on TikTok the discrepancy between the women's Final Four weight room -- one lonely set of dumbbells -- and the men's expansive Final Four weight room. She also called out the NCAA on its BS explanation that there simply wasn't enough room for the women by panning around the virtually empty expanse of the room where the dumbbells were located.

Further examples from other pissed-off women's players followed, detailing disparities ranging from the food at the two Final Fours (one young woman accurately characterized what was offered to the women as "nice jail food") to the swag (the men got a bag with all manner of goodies; the women got scrunchies) to the branding (only the men were allowed to call their tournament the Big Dance or March Madness).

So, yeah, the report just released is dog-bites-man stuff. Good for Leavy and Jenkins for using it as a hammer to bash home the point once again, but it's not exactly revelatory.

The women get short shrift, always have, and the NCAA can no longer use their lack of drawing power as an excuse. Because the evidence is overwhelming that the women's tournament does draw, and draws quite well.

One more body blow to an organization that, like George Foreman in the eighth round in Zaire, is tottering and about to go down.