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[Howee]

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[PUmatty]

[Lillian Hidgepork]

After her thumping today, it appears she needs some new players.

And to address this article and video, whats wrong with just hiring the best person for a job regardless of race or sex? Im guessing that would be racist of me to suggest something that made any kind of common sense.

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Staley is probably referring to the major conferences. I don't know what percentage is required for "mostly". If it is true just being above 50%, I think that applies to the starters of the top 25 teams each year, and the same for the starters at the final four, save maybe the year OSU and Washington made it. Of the major conferences, the ACC, Big 12 and SEC all appear to start mostly black players. Not sure about Pac 12 and Big 10.

But coaches don't have to have been starters or to have played at a major college (Cheryl Reeve played at La Salle, Cori Close at UC Santa Barbara) or even Division I, so you do have to look at the entire college landscape.

[LitePal]

Where are all the Lesbian coaches?

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[ClayK]

One other aspect, of course, is family. Males, in my experience, are more likely to be willing to head off to the wilds of North Dakota, say, to take a very low-paying assistant job to get a start in the industry. Or to put it another way, they're willing to risk a big move, even if the odds are against success. And for whatever reason, their significant others are more likely to follow them somewhere than male significant others are likely to follow females to a new spot.

And then of course, there's child-raising. The prime time for establishing one's self in the profession is in your 20s, putting in long, long hours for low pay, learning the game, learning how to coach, making connections and building a reputation as a hard worker. Obviously, having a baby makes it pretty hard to do that, and females, again for whatever reason, are usually the ones who make the sacrifices of time and energy necessary to raise a young child.

I'm not claiming these are the only factors in play, or even major ones, but I do think they have an impact on the number of women who try the difficult and low-paying path (for the vast majority) of coaching basketball.

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[BamaEd]

Wow at some of the replies on here.

OK, I just finished reading the article and I thought it was a great article. I think some responses are getting too hung up on numbers and on most. To me, this article read like someone wanting representation. How important it is to have someone that looks like you, had similar experiences as you in charge. I see nothing wrong with wanting representation. She also goes into how difficult it can be to retain that position once you get there. Dawn discussed the difficulties she's faced as a black female head coach and perceptions people have of her. I think the NCAA would be well served to work on an internship program or some program to help out underserved populations make more of an impact in the coaching ranks.

I went in to see how my conference (SEC) is currently doing and I was pleasantly surprised. I think a few years ago, the numbers weren't this good, but currently there are 9 female head coaches and 5 males. Of the 9, 5 are African-American. I think that is great in the SEC. Out of the 9 women, there is even 1 who is an out lesbian. Not too shabby about giving representation I'd say.