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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I get where you're coming from, and yes, the game does let you “simulate” the experience of being a coach. But if we’re talking about simulating real college football, then it should be grounded in the reality of the sport — and that reality, as of today, does not include a female head coach at the FBS level. Wanting to create yourself is totally fair in a fantasy game or something like The Sims, but this is a sports sim that markets itself on authenticity.
As for the “175 new customization heads for coaches” — that’s fine, but let’s not act like it’s some massive inclusion effort when the overall customization tools for coaches are still barebones. Face models alone don’t offer much when the system lacks depth or real variety.
Saying “advocating for one thing doesn’t take away from another” is true in theory, but that argument doesn’t hold when players can’t even finish a game without it crashing. Prioritization absolutely matters. You don’t plaster on a new coat of paint when the foundation is crumbling. Whether it’s visuals or functionality, it all falls under the same release — and players are paying full price for a product that still doesn’t run properly for many.
And yes, different teams may handle visuals vs. mechanics, but it’s still one game under one studio. This isn’t an indie dev scraping by — this is EA Sports, a billion-dollar publisher. When users are locked out of key game modes and the focus shifts to cosmetic tweaks or symbolic features, it’s not a good look — it’s a distraction.
At the end of the day, this is just a weird hill to choose to die on. You're advocating hard for a niche feature that doesn't reflect the real sport, in a game that's already falling apart under its own technical issues. It feels like an oddly defined stance — one that ignores the broader, broken picture in favor of surface-level wins. Representation is important, but function has to come first.
As you say, the game is broken and many of the mechanics are not realistic, but that's aside from the point.
Women being coordinators and head coaches, is not completely out of the realm of reality. A large part of why this hasn't happened yet is due to systemic inequalities. That's even shown here with comments in this post and other posts where people have asked for women to be added to the game.
With my comment before, I completely agree that EA should release complete games, and with substantial improvements for yearly releases. Fixing a broken game should be their priority, but it shouldn't be like this in the first place. Additionally, people have been asking for women coach options since the deep dives of 25's pre-release. This is something that they had time to work on, and in the 26 coach options, they chose not to make a ratio of the heads feminine.
EA is a billion-dollar publisher and they will work on visuals, like the additions in the last update, so there's still the capacity for them to add this. It's an easy fix, and something that EA has in many of its games already. Advocating for equality will always be a hill I'm willing to die on.
