Megan Greenwell's Essay 'Where Have All The Good Coaches Gone?'

Megan Greenwell’s essay, “Where Have All The Good Coaches Gone?” is about what has gone wrong with coaches after Title IX went into place. Over the years many things have changed in the world of sports from not only players, but to the salaries coaches are being paid, and how coaches are selected. She uses examples of statistics to explain how female sports have evolved over the years. Greenwell uses very good displays of emotion and stereotyping to help get her points across on the negatives that Title IX has done to the female sports world. When describing how female athletes over time, she uses very distinct examples of logos on how much has changed specifically. In 1972, when Title IX went into place numbers of female athletes skyrocketed from 16,000 to more
She starts off by telling a story of her youth where she had a very harsh coach she referred to as “Coach Cowboy Boots” as if he wasn’t even deserving of a name. When she goes on deeper into detail she begins using very large amounts of pathos to say that not having a female coach in her life caused her to only be able to look up to athletes as a role model, rather than having one teach her along the way. This causes readers to have sympathy for her and all other young girls growing up without having a role model to look up to personally in their lives. She also uses pathos to say that “men are more likely to hire other men across many professions, even when there are equally or better-qualified female candidates” (435). This is not completely true as some men are hired because they are more equipped for the job, not just because they are men. But this being said, it does give an impression off that only men hire men because they did not think women are capable at coaching at that high of a demand or for that qualified of a job due to how high the pay