OT: Bills hire first full time female coach

Pity the poor HR department. The Ryan brothers and Richie Incognito in one locker room.

It's always refreshing when someone has the gumption to call out an institution for succumbing to 'PC pressure' because that makes it really easy to completely disregard whatever that person says.

This is disappointly similar to the MGoSexism in the (former Arizona Cardinals quality control coach) Jen Welter thread.  People get hired all the time for jobs at the expense of other candidates who are more qualified on paper.  It happens for a variety of reasons that have a variety of merit.  It might be because that person is a friend of a friend.  It might be because she's the boss' niece.  It might be because she killed the interview.  It might be because she's eye candy who cleans up nice in a pencil skirt.  It might be because she worked long hours for little to no pay as an audition for th job.  The one universal constant is that when it's a female hired in an overwhelmingly male industry (sports, in this case), you see a plurality of men dismiss it out of hand as a token diversity hire.  Again, several dozens of coaching positions are filled every season, and many of those are filled by probably the not-most-qualified candidate - so why the particular hue and cry over this one?

The issue of how players won't respect someone who never played football is not groundless, but it's still a classic case of (pardon the pun) moving the goal posts.  I mean, if you really want to argue that Jay Harbaugh's one injury-shorted season playing HS football is the difference between Jake Butt and Ian Bunting respecting him as a coach, go ahead.  As Jaybaugh himself said in so many words, his dad's name is a large part of why he was hired and his job is to not let that become an issue.  I'd say he's succeeded thus far, and if he can, there are any number of women who can do so as well.  There will always be firsts.  At some point someone will be the first black senator, the first disabled Emmy winner, the first woman general, etc.  Certainly they faced more of an uphill climb and that included winning the respect of their peers and subordinates but let's not act like that's never ever ever happened before.

I think the title Rex Ryan's administrative assistant is misleading. This can't mean secretary as it does sometimes? Otherwise, being promoted from secretary would seemingly be the biggest knock against the qualifications of this individual to coach football.