Have you seen me defending that here? No. To the contrary, I've been advocating the opposite. Your example of Geno Auriemma is tell-tale in respect to women not having the opportunity early on to develop the requisite capabilities of coaching at that level. It's different now, for the better. Say you have a male and a female coach of equal expertise: which would you consider better suited to coach a women's team? If you think it doesn't matter, you'd be wrong (in my humble opinion, naturally).
OK. I'm not saying male gymnastics coaches are bad. There are very good ones, in fact. Norm Chow, coach of Gabby Douglas, for example. And not all of Bela Karolyi's students were opposed to his methods. Kim Zmeskal and Mary Lou Retton, for example, loved being pushed and driven and were able to laugh off the insults and denigrating comments as motivational tactics.
What happened here is as follows:
1. You think women can't be good NFL coaches because they haven't played the game and they can't relate to football players.
2. Patchick very correctly pointed out the Bela Karolyi is girls gymnastics' example of the reverse situation being something no one has or ever had a problem with in society.
3. You responded that perhaps Karolyi had father figure qualities that made him a great coach, even though apparently you knew that was media driven rubbish.Incredibly, you came up with a reason for Karolyi's maleness to be a great asset in coaching girls gymnastics while the opposite is so clearly abhorrent to you.
4. I responded that Karolyi was a hardass and the idea of him being a father figure was laughable media BS. I then provided an example of a US male coach who was also a total jerk, because you seemed to decide that Karolyi must just be a one-off, Eastern European anomaly. He wasn't.
5. But that doesn't mean men aren't good girls gymnastics coaches. Many are. Norm Chow has had great success with his more gentle and restful methods. He coached Gabby Douglas and Shawn Johnson recently.
6. So I believe that if a woman coach understands the game and has insights to provide, the fact that she hasn't played the game and isn't a dude shouldn't mean a damn thing because it doesn't in other sports. Unless you believe, as you seem to, that men can coach any sport, men OR women and be successful but girls can only coach girls because they can't relate to big tough male culture. It's a sexist double standard period.