Women in Coach Customisation Options?
With all the new customisation features and over 1,700 head models added for the audience, it is a statement not to add the option for the coach creator. It doesn't need to be a highlighted or pushe...
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If you'd have read through the post, there's no issue raised with the likeness of real people included...
You specified players on a football scholarship because you are aware of women that have played. With this, why aren't there any women kickers generated for new recruits?
It's important to address here that this is a video game where in you can make the coach that you want. More than 99% of players will not be real coaches. If you're arguing for realism, why should there be an option to make a customised coach at all?
There are more women getting into the industry and the backlash on this post outlines why it is taking as long as it is.
In the tens of thousands of humans who have played D1 football over the past 20 years, three have been women. All were kickers. All were soccer players who filled in for an injury on the football team. None were on scholarship. None were recruited.
So why doesn't the game let you recruit women placekickers? Because it's never happened. To recruit in this game means to offer a scholarship. A woman has never received a scholarship offer from a D1 football team.
This IS a video game. And you're blaming them for being too accurate.
And no, you can't "make the coach that you want". If I wanted a blind, double amputee, quadriplegic coach... I seriously doubt you would argue that EA should make that possible.
As to whether that hypothetical coach (who at least could have conceivably played varsity football—beyond placekicker) would be more likely to become a HC than a woman, I'll leave that up to the readers.
