I wrote for the Daily Campus back when it was in a crappy 1920s Sears catalogue house on the site where the new, nice building is.

the only mean thing I can say about Geno (which is wholly unrelated to his coaching of a women’s team) is that, in my limited experince with him, he really isn’t a very nice person. That opinion would not change if he was coaching the mens team however.

Calhoun’s not the nicest guy, either. ;)

Some women’s players lived on my floor, and they really liked Geno (though they were the ones who told me about the nose-picking). My only real experience with him came from a) taking a tennis class from him to fulfill a sports requirement (and it was quite apparent that he was not happy about having to teach it) and b) finding out that he made one of the players take out the braids I had so carefully put into her hair before a game because he was superstitious about the players changing their hairstyles.

Sexual abuse can go both ways although the majority of it certainly is supplied by men. And there is a dearth of women coaches, even in women’s sports. I don’t believe it’s because of a lack of talent either. I’m sure there’s plenty of qualified women coaches out there who are not presented with the proper opportunity.

My sport — auto racing — is even more male dominated than the “ball and stick” sports. AndI’ve seen first-hand (through my daughter, who competes) what some (but definitely not all) men will do and say to keep it that way.

Change is slow but it is coming…even to motorsports!

But my knowledge of women coaching men’s teams is pretty well limited to Wildcats. I’m not aware of any women who coach college teams — and other than Pat Summitt, I don’t know that any have been asked to.

(Personally, I believe a large number of men would be absolutely screaming “fowl.” But I’d love to see it, just to screw with them!)