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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 3936262, member: 591"] So I started out looking at coach's ages (5 Power Conferences plus BE), after issues being raised about Geno and Tara. Both 67, they are 2 of the 5 coaches over 65 (Mark Trakh is 65). Doug Bruno is 70, Vivian Stringer is 73 and Gary Blair is 75. Only Doug Bruno's age was a surprise. Then my wife said something about the number of male vs. female coaches - I commented that you should want the best coach regardless of gender, which is true, but my wife pointed out that - in a women's sport - you would think a higher percentage of women would be coaches (and referees, for that matter). It is true that 48 of the 76 schools in those 6 conferences have female coaches (63%). While I supposed this was a gain over the last 20 years, when I checked, boy was I surprised: 20 years ago, 57 of these schools (75%) had women's coaches. In fact all 12 of the teams that currently make up the PAC were coached by women 20 years ago. Although I didn't do an "in depth" check of the numbers, it looks to me like about 27% of the women coaches (and 21% of all of the coaches) are black, as opposed to 16% in 2001, 20 years ago. I noted it only because so much was made of Dawn and Adia both making the Final Four. I present these numbers as being interesting, there is absolutely no editorial comment intended, except that I am indeed surprised there are more male coaches now than then. [/QUOTE]