It’s tremendously exciting.

And oh, so compkex, disappointingly so.

That’s the best way to describe Iowa guard Caitlin Clark’s pursuit of the career scoring record in women’s college basketball.

The “all-time” leader is Lynette Woodard, who tallied 3,649 points from 1978-81 while at Kansas, putting her 32 ahead of Clark as I write this. But because women’s college sports was then under the jurisdiction of the Association of Intercollegiate Women’s Athletics, the NCAA doesn’t recognize her accomplishments.

Woodard wants the NCAA to value that.

“I want the NCAA governing body to know they should respect the AIWA players, respect the history. Include us and our accomplishments,” she said.

I would like to tell the Browns to do the same thing regarding the team’s first four seasons, 1946-49. Because the club was in the All-America Football Conference then before moving to the NFL in 1950, the Browns don’t recognize those accomplishments, either team-wise or individually. Only the NFL numbers for all Browns are recognized.

All of the AAFC statistics should be listed, and in addition, those numbers should be combined with those players’ NFL stats if they also ended up spending time in that league to produce full career numbers for their years with the Browns.

Are you listening in Berea?

Steve King