Men were talking.
Nina King doesn’t name names, but she recounts the time she was on a football panel with a legendary coach and administrator, and the conversation had derailed in a tired direction: Women can’t do football. Women can’t coach football. Women can’t oversee football. Time out, she interrupted. I know you’re all legends, but I don’t have to design plays or run drills to maintain a student athlete program. Besides, she quipped, if the administrators are coaching, we’re in trouble.
“That’s kind of the perception and probably a little bit of the reality of why women are not hired as athletic directors at big-time schools,” King says.