YourView
Letters to the Editor

Bitter fan begs for support of women’s basketball

Wonderful job, TCU Athletics, you sold out the TCU/Texas Tech men’s game. Unfortunately, I had to work Wednesday so I missed out on the ticket giveaway. So, this is a plea — a plea that everyone who picked up a ticket for the game will go to the women’s game against Wisconsin-Green Bay. The 20th-ranked Lady Frogs deserve your support, even more than Bobby Knight deserves your boos at the nightcap.

When the Lady Frogs won the 2001 Western Athletic Conference Championship in Tulsa, I was there. When they upset nationally-ranked Penn State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, I was there. Throughout the 2001-02 Conference-USA regular season domination, my wife and I were there. But Dec. 3, we will not be there. Why? Because we don’t have a ticket to the men’s game.

Yes, I’m bitter. Bitter because I don’t think everyone with tickets to the men’s game will show for the women’s game. Prove me wrong people, please prove me wrong.

And, TCU Athletics, if you’ll reconsider and let me in to the women’s game with just an ID, I’ll wear a bright yellow or blaze orange shirt so you can identify me in order to escort me from the building at the end of the women’s game. I wouldn’t be hard to find because I would be the fat guy screaming my head off during the whole game for the Lady Frogs just as I have been for the past two seasons.

—Jared Trullinger, graduate student, Brite Divinity School