Women's college soccer and beyond: male coaches

[Anonymous]

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That is a completely bullshit analysis.

There are exactly zero - zip - none -nada - soccer coaches who think that the women’s game is similar to the men’s game. Heck - Dorrence made his name and money establishing that the games, and the coaching, are very very different. Apples to Horse Shoes.

If that were a valid reason then there wouldn’t be so many men coaching women’s teams. It’s a totally different game how can men coach women?

Coaching is a skill like anything else. As long as it doesn’t require more strength and physicality, there is no reason women learn to be just as good. The best players usually don’t make the best coaches. Coaching is a lot about being a good teacher and motivator.

It’s a totally different game. Men coach girl teams and women’s teams because they excluded and continue to exclude women from being hired.

If the ncaa required every college to have at least 50 percent of the coaching staff be women then golly gee, somehow the colleges would find women coaches.

We’ve been down this same road before. Girls don’t like sports. Why have sports for girls who don’t want to play. Yet every single time a new opportunity to play arises; girls jump in. The fastest growing high school sports currently? Girls flag football and girls wrestling.

No - you cannot coach girls like you coach boys - in any sport. Soccer included.

Your 50% requirement is not legal.

[Anonymous]

People ignoring the reality of coaching. Women interested in pursuing elite coaching will likely have to sacrifice family goals to participate in high-level travel or college. My kids played in the area and I can't recall one coach across the big clubs who was female except for the former head of Bethesda's girls program, who resigned 5+ years ago. She was a MAC Herman winner, UNC captain, USWNT WC Champion and former head coach at UMD. Her husband was the men's coach at UMD.

The current UMD coach was a coach at PDA and Rutgers for years before making the move.

Also, OP left out that last year's winner, UCLA, is lead by a woman. Looking across Power 4 conferences, the BigTen (UMD, PSU, U of IL, U of WI, U of MN, U of MI, OSU, U of WA, UCLA, USC) is best represented with 11 programs led by women and the ACC has the least (1).