Jet, March 29th, 1999
Former Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson recently voiced his opinion that women have the ability to coach men.
"Women are better at holding people to standards," he told the New York Post. "Men have compromised the values and standards that think belong in place with regards to telling young people what they ought to do and should do.
"Women have better instincts to force people to do what is correct," he added. "They are more concerned with educating kids."
Thompson, on several occasions, demonstrated his confidence in women when it comes to their coaching abilities on...
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