Female Coaches

[MADXSTER]

Will a woman ever be a Div I Mens Head basketball coach??

Would she be able to recruit top players??

[smileyy]

Yes, eventually.

No, but not because she's a woman. It'll be because she's at a small school that has only upside to taking a risk like that, and wouldn't be recruiting top players anyway.

[SixFig]

It could work. Maybe a player's parents would be more inclined to give the care of their child to a woman, who have been stereotyped as loving caregivers rather than a man with strict rules and sole focus on winning.

[Masterofreality]

Will a woman ever be a Div I Mens Head basketball coach??

Would she be able to recruit top players??

Let me think..........

..................................No.

[X-band '01]

There was a woman (forget her name) who was an interim coach at Tennessee State a few years back.

Bernadette Maddox was also an assistant on Rick Pitino's UK staff back in the early 90s.

[wkrq59]

There are currently a number of good women coaches in major college basketball. Pat Summit has already turned down three offers and one of them was at Tennessee.
C. Vivian Stringer would have been a good choice to replace the bounced men's coach there, but her health has been poor to bad. Kim Mulcahey at Baylor, I think or did she move over to Texas is another really good coach. Tara Van der Veer at Stanford all mentioned could coach men's teams and recruit, Trouble with Bernadette Locke Maddox was she wasn't a very good women's head coach when she finally got the job.