Oblique but IMO relevant to your analysis is the wildly skewed trade-off landscape this furthers for honest males with coaching skills who also have other options. Five years ago, after nearly a decade coaching hundreds of females--celebrating victories and consoling defeats, diligent to maintain high standards and strict boundaries without becoming an aloof robot--I saw how the culture was filling a minefield with shifting perceptions of propriety and, most importantly, grievance.

Reluctantly, I chose to exit. I now I deploy four decades of athletic experience (and other skills) in other realms. The upshot is that women's (and girls') sports can only lose as other male coaches make similarly rational (if reluctant) calculations.