The Buccaneers last week made groundbreaking additions to their coaching staff.
Tampa Bay became the first team to hire two women as full-time assistant coaches. Lori Locust came on as an assistant defensive line coach, while Maral Javadifar was hired as assistant strength and conditioning coach.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is there will be some (foolish) people who criticize the Buccaneers’ decision to bring on Locust and Javadifar. And new Tampa Bay head coach Bruce Arians has a (slightly NSFW) message for those out-of-touch folks.
Bucs coach Bruce Arians on hiring two new female coaches: “The fact that their gender’s different — who gives a shit?”
— JennaLaineESPN (@JennaLaineESPN) March 26, 2019
Enough said.
Locust and Javadifar were hired because they were the best fits for their jobs, which should be the standard approach for all teams across the league. As Arians notes, gender shouldn’t even be considered as a factor in the hiring process.
