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 pushed as a major feature, because it isn't. It's a baseline for equality.
Schwaahly everyone wants a good, playable game. People also want a game that inspires and allows you to simulate playing a coach. Being able to make that coach is part of the simulating. If you want realism, you should ask for the coach creator to be removed altogether, as any coach made in the creator isn't a real coach.
Also, the only person "crying" and "throwing a tantrum" here is in the comment directly above this one.
midniterider81 yes, it would be a change that in no way effects you. You're talking about the boycotting done by people who want to maintain a capitalistic society and maintain discrimination of minority groups.
Being a true supporter of something means wanting to share the passion that you have with others. Why do both of you want to stop women playing or being involved in football?
EA want to increase their player base and create a strong community. Making good games that allow all to play, discuss and enjoy is the way to do that.
Here's some reading: The Rise of the Women's National Football Conference
The NFL's Female Coaching Surge is here
Head Coach Troy Taylor Bullied and Belittled Female Staffers
Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual Assault: Being a woman in men's football is exhausting This one is about soccer, but very inciteful into a very similar situation.
It does take resources and development time from things that are a more reasonable reflection of the college football.
However, if they ever do add full coaching staffs then this should be a thing as women have become of a part of the team in a variety of different roles.
Here’s the reality at the FBS level there are no female head coaches or coordinators. NCAA 26 is marketed as a simulation of real college football, and reflecting that reality isn’t exclusion — it’s authenticity.
Yes, women are starting to break barriers from Ivy League position coaches to analysts at Dartmouth and UConn, and even trailblazers in the NFL. Those are good things, absolutely worth acknowledging. But in the context of this game, they’re moot at best. NCAA 26 isn’t simulating interns, analysts, or the NFL. It’s simulating FBS football and in that world, those roles don’t exist yet.
That’s why this whole argument collapses. You’re trying to frame reality as ‘exclusion’ to push a fantasy option, while the overwhelming majority of players are begging for stability, smarter AI, dynasty recruiting that matters, real physics, and core football mechanics that actually work. That’s the real conversation, not a niche checkbox feature.
That logic doesn’t hold up. The coach creator exists to let you step into a role within the framework of real college football By that argument, you could say “remove custom uniforms, custom names, or custom playbooks because they aren’t real either.” But those tools are about adding variety while still respecting the structure of the game as it actually exists. Adding female head coaches to FBS football doesn’t add variety — it rewrites reality.
It’s the same logic as men competing in women’s sports — bending reality for optics instead of authenticity. NCAA 26 is supposed to simulate college football as it exists today. At the FBS level, there are no female head coaches or coordinators. That isn’t exclusion, it’s accuracy.
At this point, the back-and-forth is redundant and honestly ridiculous. If having a woman avatar makes the game better for you, I’m not going to argue that — I’ll bow out here, because it’s clear this thread is more about ideology than football.”**
Schwaahly you choose to pick out what you want to reply to, and use the same points about 'realism' and the updates needed to gameplay. I have said countless time about the need for a playable good game. The Dev team will still add presentation updates to the game, as shown in the campus huddle updates published yesterday (37 visual, and many audio). They have teams to work on gameplay and teams to work on presentation. This point goes beyond asking for an update, it was asked for before the creation of CFB26.
Your seem confused with the point about the removal of the coach creator. This was a satirical jest to show how absurd that would be.
The gender of characters in a game doesn't impact authenticity, it only serves to inspire and allow depictions that we might not yet see due to the generations of systemic sexism, racism and exclusion.
This is still an issue, but also bringing up that flag football or womens tackle would be great to see in the future.
Its only an issue to YOU. if you want women in a football game, then develop one. meanwhile the rest of the fanbase is content with the level of female involvement in this one.
Being against the development of the game and opening the sport up to all is a you problem.
Now with the Sooner Schooner update, the RUF/NEK Lil' Sis have been excluded from the riders. This is despite them being a part of the tradition.
The development team not responding to the game bugs and issues rife throughout the game modes is an insult to the player base.
Development team. Where are women coach options.
