Bucs adding full-time coaching job for women

[Hawkeye0202]

Bruce Arians to add full-time coaching job for women

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...to-create-fulltime-coaching-job-for-women?cam

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• By Kevin Patra
• Around the NFL Writer
• Published: March 6, 2019 at 09:03 a.m.
• Updated: March 6, 2019 at 05:37 p.m.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians continues his effort to employ the most diverse coaching staff in the NFL.

During the third annual Women's Careers in Football Forum at the NFL Scouting Combine last week, Arians told Melissa Jacobs of TheFootballGirl.com he plans to establish a full-time coaching position on his staff for a woman.

 

[John813]

If they are the most qualified, good for them. If this is a PR stunt, well, the team won't have the best person for whatever position she'll be hired for. Their loss.

 

[glimmerman]

Go for it. A shot of estrogen on the sidelines. Hope she is tough.

 

[TheCount]

If they are the most qualified, good for them. If this is a PR stunt, well, the team won't have the best person for whatever position she'll be hired for. Their loss.

It's a new position.

No one is being passed over for the hire.

 

[Mobinvans]

Uh....ok

Today's society is so odd

 

[CATCH17]

I don’t agree with hiring someone based only on their gender.

 

[Sydla]

If whomever they can hire is qualified, who cares? People will no doubt make this out to be a bigger deal than it is.

 

[RamziD]

There is about a 0% chance any woman could be qualified to be an NFL coach.

Most male coaches aren’t even qualified.

No way a woman could be an Air Force fighter pilot either, right? I’d like to know your reasoning for why you think all women are incapable of possessing the traits to be an NFL coach.

 

[CATCH17]

No way a woman could be an Air Force fighter pilot either, right? I’d like to know your reasoning for why you think all women are incapable of possessing the traits to be an NFL coach.

Well they could because they have been training and doing those things at that high level.

You couldn’t just bring some random woman with a pilots license to do that though and that is about the equivalent here.

You’re taking the job from a Air Force fighter pilot and giving it to someone with a pilots license.

 

[CATCH17]

Why not?

Where could you find any woman with experience coaching that is legitimately qualified to be an NFL coach?

Maybe there is someone you could find somewhere at some high school or something but you would really have to skip over a lot more coaches that are coaching at elite levels of football to get there and you wouldn’t be hiring them for anything other then their gender.

 

[DoctorChicken]

I like it

 

[Sydla]

Where could you find any woman with experience coaching that is legitimately qualified to be an NFL coach?

Maybe there is someone you could find somewhere at some high school or something but you would really have to skip over a lot more coaches that are coaching at elite levels of football to get there.

First of all, there's no detail as to what the coaching position would be. Teams have dozens of full time coaches, so who knows what her role would be. Its not like he's hire a woman to be OC or something.

Second, many coaches never even played football at a high level and got their coaching experience simply working their way up within an organization. Are you saying women are incapable of picking up the nuances and strategies other male coaches have learned?

 

[CPanther95]

There is about a 0% chance any woman could be qualified to be an NFL coach.

Most male coaches aren’t even qualified.

You can't really say that until you find out what she's going to be coaching.

She might be coaching them on how to prepare healthy meals at home - or how to select cleat colors that match best with that week's uniform.

 

[beware_d-ware]

I wouldn't call it a PR stunt. Getting women involved has long been kind of a pet project for Bruce Arians, and he seems sincere about it.

That being said, I can't imagine a female coach being hired in any kind of impact position.

 

[TheCount]

I don’t agree with hiring someone based only on their gender.

I assume she also has to know a little bit about football to get the job.

 

[Runwildboys]

If whomever they can hire is qualified, who cares? People will no doubt make this out to be a bigger deal than it is.

I agree, but apparently he's inventing a position specifically for a woman. I find that pointless.

 

[GenoT]

Sideline-tent fluffers?

 

[erod]

Go for it. A shot of estrogen on the sidelines. Hope she is tough.

Once a month, she's going to be hell-on-wheels tough.

 

[JD_KaPow]

I wouldn't call it a PR stunt. Getting women involved has long been kind of a pet project for Bruce Arians, and he seems sincere about it.

That being said, I can't imagine a female coach being hired in any kind of impact position.

Why? I mean, yeah, not today, sure. But if women start filling the ranks from the bottom (and I assume Arians is talking about something equivalent to the Quality Control coaches, where a lot of people get their start in coaching), it will only be a matter of time.

 

[Jarv]

I wouldn't call it a PR stunt. Getting women involved has long been kind of a pet project for Bruce Arians, and he seems sincere about it.

That being said, I can't imagine a female coach being hired in any kind of impact position.

Yeah, Bruce hired Jen Welter as a LB coach during the pre-season of 2015. She spoke at a corporate event I attended in Dallas a couple of years ago. Of course she spoke highly of Bruce for giving her the opportunity and it is a pet project of his.