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Jemele Hill

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
624 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

And I easily see many scenarios in which Bill Belichick is able to. as he was good at in the NFL, able to turn someone who maybe has some borderline potential into a real viable prospect. But at the same time, it's just such a different landscape. If coaches that are around his age are getting out and he's jumping in, that to me says a lot. And his last few years in New England weren't good.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

And I easily see many scenarios in which Bill Belichick is able to. as he was good at in the NFL, able to turn someone who maybe has some borderline potential into a real viable prospect. But at the same time, it's just such a different landscape. If coaches that are around his age are getting out and he's jumping in, that to me says a lot. And his last few years in New England weren't good.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

And so I just wonder if this is going to be a fit from a personality standpoint and just looking at how differently college athletics are compared to maybe 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, where if you had said Bill Belichick was going back to college, I would have said this is no brainer. A slam dunk. You know, he's going to win there in this climate. I'm not so sure.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

And so I just wonder if this is going to be a fit from a personality standpoint and just looking at how differently college athletics are compared to maybe 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, where if you had said Bill Belichick was going back to college, I would have said this is no brainer. A slam dunk. You know, he's going to win there in this climate. I'm not so sure.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

No, and I guess the only way she would have made Megyn Kelly matter is if she came out in support of Black Santas, because we know that Megyn Kelly only believes Santa Claus can be white. I mean, that's the person whose opinion is chiming in on this.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

No, and I guess the only way she would have made Megyn Kelly matter is if she came out in support of Black Santas, because we know that Megyn Kelly only believes Santa Claus can be white. I mean, that's the person whose opinion is chiming in on this.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

So it's not surprising she would have a problem with Caitlyn Clark actually acknowledging the contributions, the sweat equity that Black women have put into this game. And you can tell a lot.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

So it's not surprising she would have a problem with Caitlyn Clark actually acknowledging the contributions, the sweat equity that Black women have put into this game. And you can tell a lot.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

Let me just big picture this real quick, though, Dan, is that as Caitlin Clark's popularity was rising and particularly after it exploded when her and Angel Reese met in that national championship game, she did the infamous Angel Reese John Cena motion. And we saw a certain section of people galvanizing around Caitlin Clark. We saw it then and it only continued to grow. And there was a

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

Let me just big picture this real quick, though, Dan, is that as Caitlin Clark's popularity was rising and particularly after it exploded when her and Angel Reese met in that national championship game, she did the infamous Angel Reese John Cena motion. And we saw a certain section of people galvanizing around Caitlin Clark. We saw it then and it only continued to grow. And there was a

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

Nice amount of disingenuous people who were not basketball fans, certainly not women's or they were not women's basketball fans. To be clear, they were not fans of women's basketball. But Caitlin Clark became their avatar.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

Nice amount of disingenuous people who were not basketball fans, certainly not women's or they were not women's basketball fans. To be clear, they were not fans of women's basketball. But Caitlin Clark became their avatar.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

She became their vessel to express a lot of the hateful and racist opinions that they had about black women, about queer women and about the WNBA overall to some degree about all women.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

She became their vessel to express a lot of the hateful and racist opinions that they had about black women, about queer women and about the WNBA overall to some degree about all women.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

so she became their sort of bat signal for that and now that we're learning more about caitlyn clark and this by the way this was not the first time she said this it may be the first time she really said it at length and because she didn't do that many one-on-ones uh this year in 2024 but she certainly have been have been she's been asked questions sort of along these same lines before and uh you know while she didn't specifically mention white privilege see she has certainly

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

so she became their sort of bat signal for that and now that we're learning more about caitlyn clark and this by the way this was not the first time she said this it may be the first time she really said it at length and because she didn't do that many one-on-ones uh this year in 2024 but she certainly have been have been she's been asked questions sort of along these same lines before and uh you know while she didn't specifically mention white privilege see she has certainly

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

always had a level of respect and reverence for the pioneers that came before i mean one of the viral moments involving caitlyn clark was when she finally met maya moore maya moore is her favorite player ever and that by the way shows the growth of the wmba you know a lot of the players that when the wmba first started they had no professional model to look at in america to say oh i grew up watching this you know professional women's player because that

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

always had a level of respect and reverence for the pioneers that came before i mean one of the viral moments involving caitlyn clark was when she finally met maya moore maya moore is her favorite player ever and that by the way shows the growth of the wmba you know a lot of the players that when the wmba first started they had no professional model to look at in america to say oh i grew up watching this you know professional women's player because that

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

possibility didn't exist. Caitlin Clark represents the generation that actually grew up watching the WNBA, familiarizing herself with this league, understanding the legacy and the history of this league. And all she was doing is giving a nod to that.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)

possibility didn't exist. Caitlin Clark represents the generation that actually grew up watching the WNBA, familiarizing herself with this league, understanding the legacy and the history of this league. And all she was doing is giving a nod to that.