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Message: [QUOTE="WBBTakeover, post: 5188602, member: 13257"] This sounds like a bunch of wish casting, to be honest. "Yeah, Geno and Vic are old now, so HOPEFULLY a woman can replace them"--while ignoring the fact that a [I]woman[/I] (Debbie Ryan at UVA) had Geno on her coaching staff in the 1980s!!!!! And this is not a shot at Geno, because he's rarely ever, if ever, had a male assistant coach on his staff. He's dominated the game, yes, but he's paid the game back handsomely and has a nice coaching tree (of women) to show for it. My beef is not with Geno. I'm saying that the likelihood of there ever being another Geno in this sport should be so infinitesimally small that it should be rendered practically impossible. Right now, that's not the case--and that should be concerning to people who claim that they want better professional opportunities for women in coaching. I'd like to know what your definition of "qualified" is for women, because it likely does not align with the definition of "qualified" for the athletic directors making the hiring decisions. Again, look at the number of women who are coaching at P4 schools and see how many of them played D1 basketball and then coached D1 basketball as assistants. Now, compare that number to the number of men coaching at P4 schools who both played D1 basketball and coached D1 women as an assistant. Like it or not, men are being seen as being more qualified than women in both men's and women's basketball. For women's basketball, the barrier of entry for men is lower, and they can get a huge boost along the way to beef up their resumes. That's why you get a 39-year-old Shawn Poppie coaching a P4 (replacing a woman who played at a P4) despite not playing at the D1 level (and having mainly lower level D1 experience as an assistant to go along with TWO years of head coaching experience). Who gave Poppie his big break? Kenny Brooks. [I]You[/I] are saying that males coaching basketball should be the default without actually saying it. If it's okay to consider men for women's coaching jobs under the guise that "it's just basketball", then why aren't we seeing that when it comes to women coaching men's basketball? How is it that not one single woman (including those who played for gold medal-winning Olympic basketball teams) is qualified to coach men, but a man can lack intercollegiate playing experience yet be able to coach women at the P4 level in this day? Make it make sense! [/QUOTE]

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