Women Coaches

I don't think a woman could ever succeed as a head coach for a contact sport. I don't think a woman could relate to a brutal sport such as football or rugby. They have not been through the two a-days, hitting drills, and all of the mental pain football bring. There is too much physical contact and pain that I don't believe a man would respect a female enough to listen to her. I don't think the girl (Holly) could even  be a successful coach. She wasn't good at all. If I were on her team I don't know if I could respect her. She wasn't in shape which to me means that she doesn't care how well she does. Just because she loves football doesn't mean she loves to play it. She could just pass out water or something on the sideline.When I wrestled in high school there was a girl who wanted to be on the team my Junior year. She didn't try at all and said everything was too hard.She complained a lot and didn't take it serious. It really made me mad. When we would live wrestle I would go really hard to show her how it really is during a match. It wasn't just rolling around on mats like she thought it was. She ended up quitting after a few weeks.

I think the only way that a woman could ever ever coach a full contact sport is if she was really successful at a high level, such as college. She would have to be an all-American and then she could probably coach high school and maybe a D-II -III college. I don't see any large universities taking a chance on a woman anytime soon.

With this being said, I have been coached by a woman. She was our head coach for the guys and girls cross country team. She was a Division I college runner and was also the head coach for the track team. Everyone respected her as a coach and it wasn't an issue that she was a woman. I think that it didn't matter that she was a woman because it was a non physical sport. She could relate to running and everything that goes along with the training and races, because she went through it.