The sport of Cheereleading

I see your points, I will not try to persued you otherwise, but I do think I could not stand myself if I did not give my opinion.
To start, this is a very HOT subject. I can see by the responses to yuor post that people feel strongly about cheerleading, just as I do. I spend hours on end argueing with my brother-in-law about cheerleading and sports. He coaches football here in California. I live up north in a town that is football crazy. The atmosphere for cheerleaders here is not the greatest either. In a conversation with him last Saturday I thought of this metaphor.
" Imagine you decided to go to a concert. It was in a whole in the wall little place, dirty, low lights, and stinky. The band is plying but the equipment is not very good, meither are the lights, or the atmosphere. but it's this "new" sound. What are yuo most likely going to think of this new sound when the atmosphere, setting and lighting is not good? Your opinion is probably not going to be very high, thats just how it is, bad presentation and setting bad reaction. But what if that same band was playing at a big concert hall, with new carpets, great lights, comfortable seats, room for dancing, and great equipment? WOW, great band! HUH? And what a cool new sound!" That's what yuo are ,ore than likely going to feel. Now, true, some die hard music fans would say, "not me, I would didg the new sound no matter what the setting" But these people are a minority, so its impossible to catch this new sound on until it is presented in the correct fashion.
Now, you are asking yourself, "what is this crazy chick rambling about?" Well, put the two together, cheereladers presented in a negative atmosphere, with bad performace, preperation, and/or background. That is how it is here in my town, no one knows cheereladers can be more than what they see becasue they only see, the whole in the wall view. It is very hard to move everyones attitude to the concert hall, where the outside elements do not effect their preconcieved notions about what cheerleaders are, do, and want.
For you team it sounds like they suffer from the hole in the wall symdrom. Especially if you are located out west here. For those of you who are back east, all power to you! I wish we had even half of the oppertunities ya'll do! No scholarships here, no male cheerleaders, no real stunts! It's Grim! But If we keep on working away at those attitudes, we will get to that concert hall, I promise!