Charges broaden against SMU women's basketball

[Blue_Tires]

DALLAS - For Jennifer Colli, playing basketball at Southern Methodist University was as good as it got.

Colli has been a hoops fanatic since she was a kid. A high school basketball star in Flower Mound, she was voted one of the top 25 high school players in Texas.

While other universities worked to recruit her, Colli's sister had already played at SMU. She said she was ecstatic to join the SMU team with a basketball scholarship in 2005.

But her excitement soon turned to shock at the first team gathering, which was when she said Coach Rhonda Rampola said she would not tolerate relationships, referring to gay relationships, among her players.

“I was sitting around and looking and thinking, is this normal?" she said while recalling the meeting held in the locker room. "Is this what we talk about in team meetings?”
http://www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/092608kvue_smubball-eh.b3760abd.html

[joeybee12]

1. What do you expect from a woman named Rhonda Rampola?

This sucks, and it seems like it could be fairly common, what with that ??%&^&* coach at Penn State pulling the same shit.

[Captain Hilts]

2. I went to Old Dominion when Rompola was there. I thought she and Nancy Lieberman...

were a couple. Perhaps she thinks it affects team morale if those relationships go south.

Inge Nissen and, perhaps, Anne Donovan - the two centers 6'5" and 6'8" respectively - were the only two straights on the team.

And what a great team they were. Nancy and Inge were the Ruth and Gerhig of women's basketball.

[Blue_Tires]

3. yeah, i was born in Norfolk (raised in Va. Beach)

and while they were a little before my time, their legends are still strong today