After BSU’s Forfeiture & SJSU Losing the Championship, Will NCAA Make Changes?
By Greg Pruett • December 2, 2024The San Jose State women’s volleyball team, which has a male player, lost the Mountain West Conference championship to the Colorado State women’s volleyball team on Saturday.
SJSU had five different schools forfeit matches against them. Boise State University forfeited three times, including a semi-final match in the tournament.
The news of BSU’s forfeiture in the tournament went viral nationwide, with the majority of the reactions being positive. Many reactions said the women were brave for standing up for women’s right to play against other women. Many reactions also expressed anger at the NCAA for putting the women in a position where they had to choose between doing what was right or pretending that the man at SJSU was actually a woman.
SJSU went to the MWC championship because of BSU’s forfeiture but ultimately lost to Colorado State University three sets to one.
CSU did not forfeit against SJSU during the regular season. However, it is no surprise that CSU did not forfeit, considering it still has three players kneeling during the national anthem.
What would have perhaps been a better scenario for all women’s volleyball to end the men having access to their sport is for every team to forfeit against SJSU. Maybe we give them a phony national title, and the NCAA would have to intervene.
Regardless, BSU’s stance in the tournament made national waves, and Americans who want normalcy restored are growing increasingly angry at the situation.
Gov. Little, who did sign the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act in 2020 posted on X,
“It is unfortunate our women athletes must choose fairness in their sport and their own safety over their ability to play in a match-up they earned. Even with their biggest game of the season on the line, the Boise State women’s volleyball team has consistently shown leadership for female athletes everywhere.
Idaho will continue to fight to defend women’s sports.”
Idaho was the first state in the country to ban men from participating in women’s sports when Rep. Barbara Ehardt (R-Idaho Falls), a former women’s college basketball coach herself, introduced HB 500. Ehardt has been an advocate for women’s sports for years.
Now, nearly half the country has passed similar measures to what Idaho passed, and everyone eagerly awaits an opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Tags: Barbara Ehardt, Boise State, Colorado State, Fairness in Women's Sports Act, HB 500, Idaho, San Jose State, U.S. Supreme Court, Utah State
Were it left up to me to decide, I would ban men in women’s sports and additionally I would ban the whole kneeling for the national anthem as well at all levels of sporting competition. I know compromise is often a tool utilized in matters to appease both sides in deciding a matter, so I would offer this compromise…those that want to compete in sports should be allowed to do so in sports that involve only their gender (period), and those that feel the urge (unpatriotic and dishonorable, in my personal opinion) to kneel during the playing of our national anthem would be allowed to do so in their respective locker room(s).
Any other outcome, again in my personal opinion, is simply unacceptable as an outcome. I served honorably in our country’s military and find the kneeling or any other disrespect towards our flag, our anthem, and other veteran’s that have served to be despicable behavior. And the gender issue (which should in no way even be considered to begin with) is an insult to God’s creation intention.
Double Amen!
CSU should be ashamed.
SJSU should be ashamed.
BSU and others who forfeited should be proud.
Women are born XX. Men are born XY. You cannot change this fact by wishing, hormone injections, or surgery. Even if you look or feel like a different sex, what happens at conception — in which you are created XX or XY — governs all. (There are some rare exceptions beyond the scope of this comment.)
Men joining women in sports is OK for mixed doubles tennis and pairs figure skating. It’s probably OK for checkers, chess, tiddlywinks, and poker.
But it’s NOT OK for athletic endeavors such as baseball, basketball, biking, cricket, football, skiing, soccer, speed skating, swimming, track, volleyball, or any other sports where strength and speed give biological males an unfair advantage over biological females.
Yes !!!
We should worship flags ! WORSHIP them I say !!
Also, the NCAA should also ban any gay athlete, since they are also insults to GOD !!!
Amen!
I am perplexed as to why players on one team knelt. Your article says the “still” take a knee. Have they done so before? Most news outlets sympathize only with trans players. But one article talked about the young athlete who has been replaced by Blaire Fleming. She told a reporter that she was so discouraged when she lost her spot on the team that she concluded she wasn’t a good athlete despite her years of work. She quit playing sports. It was only this year that she found out that the athlete who had outperformed her and taken her place was male. I graduated from high school before title IX. There were no teams for me to play on in school. I know how important women’s sports is