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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 8, 2019 17:21:45 GMT -5
She said what I've been saying for years. She has a platform where people listen. I don't.
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Post by skubikky on Apr 9, 2019 6:44:34 GMT -5
So, if a man came to apply for a position on her coaching staff she would reject his application based on his sex?
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 9, 2019 7:42:03 GMT -5
abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/notre-dame-coach-muffet-mcgraw-explains-women-power/story?id=62195822"We don't have enough female role models," McGraw said Thursday at a Women's Final Four press conference. "We don't have enough visible women leaders. We don't have enough women in power." A report from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports released earlier this year confirms McGraw's stat about athletic directors and details that nearly 24% of all Division I head coaches were women. Within women's basketball, the numbers are a little better. Nearly 60% of coaches are women while 40% are male, but in men's basketball, there are no female head coaches. My comment: Before Title IX, most coaches of women's basketball were women. As Title IX has grown, salaries have increased. As salaries have increased, men have become more interested in coaching women's basketball. I do follow the coaching changes every year. I can guarantee that there will be one hire of a women's basketball coach this year who only has experience coaching high school boys or NAIA men's basketball. They will have no experience coaching girls or women. That is wrong.
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Post by swamp on Apr 9, 2019 9:17:21 GMT -5
So, if a man came to apply for a position on her coaching staff she would reject his application based on his sex? yes, probably. ETA: I know it's wrong because discriminating based on sex is wrong. However, since men generally control sports, including women's sports, I'm finding it hard to care. Bad me, I know. |
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Post by justme on Apr 9, 2019 9:38:32 GMT -5
abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/notre-dame-coach-muffet-mcgraw-explains-women-power/story?id=62195822"We don't have enough female role models," McGraw said Thursday at a Women's Final Four press conference. "We don't have enough visible women leaders. We don't have enough women in power." A report from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports released earlier this year confirms McGraw's stat about athletic directors and details that nearly 24% of all Division I head coaches were women. Within women's basketball, the numbers are a little better. Nearly 60% of coaches are women while 40% are male, but in men's basketball, there are no female head coaches. My comment: Before Title IX, most coaches of women's basketball were women. As Title IX has grown, salaries have increased. As salaries have increased, men have become more interested in coaching women's basketball. I do follow the coaching changes every year. I can guarantee that there will be one hire of a women's basketball coach this year who only has experience coaching high school boys or NAIA men's basketball. They will have no experience coaching girls or women. That is wrong. I don't know other sports as well as I do basketball, but women's basketball has quite a lot of differences from men's basketball when you get down to the idiosyncrasies. I personally think as a sport women do it a lot better, I roll my eyes anymore at how the definition of traveling has morphed in men's game. I feel like their game is becoming more like Harlem Globetrotters. |
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 9, 2019 12:00:51 GMT -5
justme I feel the same way about women's hoops. However, I can't watch it at the professional level. I like the high school through college game. I do wish the women's game still had the 1 and 1, but I like the 4 quarters and the foul count reset at the beginning of each quarter. The only men's games I watch are the teams I follow. I don't like the Euro step has been taken to such an extreme.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 9, 2019 12:06:57 GMT -5
So, if a man came to apply for a position on her coaching staff she would reject his application based on his sex? yes, probably. ETA: I know it's wrong because discriminating based on sex is wrong. However, since men generally control sports, including women's sports, I'm finding it hard to care. Bad me, I know. The women's basketball world is pretty small. There can be a lot of reasons to hire or not hire an assistant coach. There is the coaching tree of her former players and people she has seen do well coaching AAU or JUCO, etc. A program like Notre Dame has the pick of the coaches looking to get on the staff of a perennial NCAA team. She can be very selective in who she wants on her bench. Usually there is a meeting with players. If there isn't chemistry with the players, an assistant isn't getting hired. The assistant coach with the least number of years at Notre Dame has been there for 7 years. The video coordinator is male.  |
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Post by billisonboard on Apr 9, 2019 17:04:57 GMT -5
So, if a man came to apply for a position on her coaching staff she would reject his application based on his sex? yes, probably. ETA: I know it's wrong because discriminating based on sex is wrong. However, since men generally control sports, including women's sports, I'm finding it hard to care. Bad me, I know. I agree with you for now but once twice the third time a woman is hired as a head/assistant coach for a major college men's team, I will reconsider. |
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 9, 2019 20:13:22 GMT -5
The NBA now has assistant coaches who are female. I believe Becky Hammon of the Spurs was the first and she never coached collegiate women.
She was never selected to even try out for the US Olympic team. She was a fantastic player in the WNBA and she couldn't even get a try out. She was playing in Russia, so she got Russian citizenship and played in the Olympics for them. She knew she would be retired by the time the next Olympics came around.
She took a lot of heat for that decision, but it was her dream to play in the Olympics and the US wouldn't give her an opportunity.
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