Quote:I get what you are saying but there have been coaches in the NFL (Chip Kelly, Todd Haley) that never played football. But it is rare.

 

I think it more likely you would see a female assistant at a lower level college or high school. Which I cannot remember ever seeing.

 

I'm not talking about playing, I'm talking about coaching. The OP is suggesting that you bring a female onto the staff in an almost immediate time frame. Thing is, how many truly capable female football coaches exist? I agree with you in that Haley and Kelly have shown that you don't need to have been a former player to at least be competent, even though the jury is still out on them, but both of those men have extensive coaching backgrounds at very high levels. Granted, Haley started in the NFL, but that was due to family ties most likely and he spent ten years as a position coach before he ever became a coordinator.

 

When you then compare that to basketball where there exists a women's professional League in addition to the NCAA, there is a much deeper pool of talent to draw from as there are simply more female coaches who coach at a higher level than there are comparable one's in Football.

 

It's really just a matter of numbers.

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