This woman has played the game, at a higher level than some men -- and certainly at a higher level than the boys she will be coaching.

 

I'll take a brilliant woman coach over a dumb male coach, who played the game any day. Winning is the goal; and that is about strategy, training, motivation and knowledge.

 

Women's pro is the only level of women's football and a very low level.

You make a lot of good points CCC.

 

:thumb: Thanks man.

 

I know alot of what I'm saying is coming off wrong, but it's just how I feel about the situation. As a teenage boy alot of my coaches became positive influences in my life, as I had no "father-figure" at home. Without these coaches, I probably wouldn't have turned out too well at all. They made me a better person, and helped me in ways that the important women in my life could not. For many young males, coaches are the closest thing to a father that they will ever know.

 

I love football, but the purpose of it to me at the HS level is to turn young boys into men and teach them life lessons that they can use throughout their lives. Women cannot teach a boy how to be a man. That is why I would never let my son or sons play football for a man of little moral character or a woman.

:thumb: Thanks man.

 

I know alot of what I'm saying is coming off wrong, but it's just how I feel about the situation. As a teenage boy alot of my coaches became positive influences in my life, as I had no "father-figure" at home. Without these coaches, I probably wouldn't have turned out too well at all. They made me a better person, and helped me in ways that the important women in my life could not. For many young males, coaches are the closest thing to a father that they will ever know.

 

I love football, but the purpose of it to me at the HS level is to turn young boys into men and teach them life lessons that they can use throughout their lives. Women cannot teach a boy how to be a man. That is why I would never let my son or sons play football for a man of little moral character or a woman.

 

 

To be utterly blunt, there are a lot of men who can't teach a boy how to be a man.

To be utterly blunt, there are a lot of men who can't teach a boy how to be a man.

 

Like I said, I wouldn't have those kind of men coach my son either. Many men cannot teach boys how to become men, few if any women can teach a boy the ways to become a man.:thumb:

Like I said, I wouldn't have those kind of men coach my son either. Many men cannot teach boys how to become men, few if any women can teach a boy the ways to become a man.:thumb:

 

The problem is, you won't question it because he IS a man. As long as it's a man coaching, people will just worry about the X's and O's, wins and loses, and not whether or not he is developing young men into GOOD young men.

Like I said, I wouldn't have those kind of men coach my son either. Many men cannot teach boys how to become men, few if any women can teach a boy the ways to become a man.:thumb:

 

:lol: I'm sorry...but, can a man teach a girl to become a woman? How do you justify male coaches of women's sports? If football is to teach a boy to become a man, it stands to reason all sports are to teach a boy/girl how to become a woman/man. It's not about the gender teaching the lessons, it's about the lessons being taught. I know A LOT of good men raised by women without father figures...many who never played football.

To be utterly blunt, there are a lot of men who can't teach a boy how to be a man.

Amen to that!

It's not about anybody really teaching anybody anything it's about men not wanting to give up the only thing left that feels like theirs. I don't expect any woman to understand this, its just the truth.

It's not about anybody really teaching anybody anything it's about men not wanting to give up the only thing left that feels like theirs. I don't expect any woman to understand this, its just the truth.

 

Seriously? :lol:

 

It must have been tough on you when women were given the vote, and tougher when you realized that there are women who can be CEO's, work construction and even find cures for diseases.

 

Your argument is baloney! Give up the only thing they feel is theirs?! Seriously! Until the last 75 years, pretty much EVERYTHING was theirs!

You and your son have a special bond then. In most cases that is not so though. Like I said, off the field it would be extremely hard for a female coach to succeed. How many female teachers do male students have that kind of bond with?

 

You might be suprised. As a female teacher, I have created many strong bonds with students, suprisingly more of them male than female. Many of them have been through my connection with the student through sports.

 

One of the most recent examples that comes to mind for me was young man that graduated in 2006. He lived with elderly grandparents. Neither of his actual parents were really part of his life. Over his four years of high school, we developed a close bond in the classroom and in my connections to sports that he played in. Over time, he went from a trouble-causing freshman, into a kid that didn't get a single detention his senior year. He enlisted in the Air Force, finished his basic training and on his first furlough back home, came to see me. It was really only then, after a lengthy conversation, that I realized that he had really relied on me as a life line and a role model while he was in school. His words, "I wouldn't have made it through basic training, if it weren't for what you taught me about character and the person that I want to be." Since then, he's been in Afghanistan twice, and is stationed out of Little Rock, but every time he comes back to Kentucky, he and his wife come to see me.

 

I don't give that example to toot my own horn. I give it because it IS an example of how a woman can influence a man to be a better man, and that it can be done through sports.

 

I doubt that the players of this woman coach are going to suffer because she is a female any more than female players of a male coach suffer because he is a male...which is to say, virtually none.

:lol: I'm sorry...but, can a man teach a girl to become a woman? How do you justify male coaches of women's sports? If football is to teach a boy to become a man, it stands to reason all sports are to teach a boy/girl how to become a woman/man. It's not about the gender teaching the lessons, it's about the lessons being taught. I know A LOT of good men raised by women without father figures...many who never played football.

 

1. A man cannot teach a girl to become a woman.

2. Let's not equate BBall & Football. Both are tough team sports, but football requires a little something extra. It's about enduring the heat, battling the cold, running and pumping weights, team unity, memorization, etc. A team can be undisciplined but still win the State Championship in BBall because of talent. That rarely happens in football.

3. Football is not only to teach one how to become an adult, but it's part of the big picture. I'm sorry but it requires more dedication and time than any other sport (overall teamwise) so that is one of the lessons I get out of it.

 

Call me sexist or whatever but I'm not going to argue about this anymore. IMO most men would not want to have their football coach be a woman and it has nothing to do with sexism or women being undervalued. People are way to overly sensitive to this kind of garbage and feminism has begun to make me sick. Women are always oppressed, always discriminated against, women are objectified etc. that's all I ever hear. Women can be just as successful as men in every profession IMO, except coaching football.

 

I'm far from a sexist, I've been raised by women my whole life, and I actually find it easier to have conversations and friendships with older women than I do with men. But, to me women have no place coaching men's high school football or even JFL football.

 

In the world we live in today how can a woman even remotely know how to coach a team with only two years of coaching experience? They Semi-pro leagues? That's probably her only playing experience. I would say that those teams practice less than half of the year and I would guess their playbooks and terminology do not compute with how the men play football (many of the coaches are former arena/indoor guys). Most of the women who play in these leagues are former BBall, Volleyball, and other sports (not football though) at the college level who want to still compete in sports.

 

So call it sexist (it isn't), I would say more like skeptical. I've talked football with plenty of women who know quite a bit about football, but I had never thought about any of them actually becoming a coach. I've posted this question to a few of my friends today (not all of which are from KY) and not a one of them said they would play for a woman coach in football, most just thought it was a crazy question. These are not sexist or overly biased people, just people who are giving a realistic answer. Women as football coaches would not work for a seemingly infinite number of reasons.

1. A man cannot teach a girl to become a woman.

2. Let's not equate BBall & Football. Both are tough team sports, but football requires a little something extra. It's about enduring the heat, battling the cold, running and pumping weights, team unity, memorization, etc. A team can be undisciplined but still win the State Championship in BBall because of talent. That rarely happens in football.

3. Football is not only to teach one how to become an adult, but it's part of the big picture. I'm sorry but it requires more dedication and time than any other sport (overall teamwise) so that is one of the lessons I get out of it.

 

Call me sexist or whatever but I'm not going to argue about this anymore. IMO most men would not want to have their football coach be a woman and it has nothing to do with sexism or women being undervalued. People are way to overly sensitive to this kind of garbage and feminism has begun to make me sick. Women are always oppressed, always discriminated against, women are objectified etc. that's all I ever hear. Women can be just as successful as men in every profession IMO, except coaching football.

 

I'm far from a sexist, I've been raised by women my whole life, and I actually find it easier to have conversations and friendships with older women than I do with men. But, to me women have no place coaching men's high school football or even JFL football.

 

In the world we live in today how can a woman even remotely know how to coach a team with only two years of coaching experience? They Semi-pro leagues? That's probably her only playing experience. I would say that those teams practice less than half of the year and I would guess their playbooks and terminology do not compute with how the men play football (many of the coaches are former arena/indoor guys). Most of the women who play in these leagues are former BBall, Volleyball, and other sports (not football though) at the college level who want to still compete in sports.

 

So call it sexist (it isn't), I would say more like skeptical. I've talked football with plenty of women who know quite a bit about football, but I had never thought about any of them actually becoming a coach. I've posted this question to a few of my friends today (not all of which are from KY) and not a one of them said they would play for a woman coach in football, most just thought it was a crazy question. These are not sexist or overly biased people, just people who are giving a realistic answer. Women as football coaches would not work for a seemingly infinite number of reasons.

 

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I actually don't have a problem with this though I don't think she will succeed. I hope she does but I just don't see it happening. I don't think the players will respect her and I don't think the players will relate with her like they would a male coach.

 

This is much more acceptable to me than the women who are constantly shouting about how women can do anything men can do. It's simply not true. The physical differences in men and women make men more able to be successful in the sports world, specifically football being that it is one of, if not the most physical sport played.

 

It upsets me that some people cannot except the fact that we divide sports by sex. They can't see the reasoning behind it. Why is it that when a woman plays above her level in golf, she is able to move up and play with the men ? Why do we not offer the less successful male golfers the chance to play with the women ? Imagine all that would be lost if we did away with male and female sports, if we made it open sex. How many young women would not have their educations paid for because they couldn't make a college basketball team.

 

I suppose I got away from the topic of a female football coach with that rant. Again, I don't have a problem with a female being a head football coach. Coaching is much more mental than physical. I hope it works out for her.

Should men then be allowed to coach women's basketball, volleyball, soccer, golf, or softball? Because I'm sure things happen there that men are embarrassed to see and hear.

 

This is about football. Did you play or coach at any level?

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