View Full Version : Tony Dungy: Why is college football so far behind in hiring blacks?
flipcritic
02-20-2009, 12:25 AM
I don't mean this to sound inflammatory. It's an interesting read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/opinion/20dungy.html
samikeyp
02-20-2009, 02:39 AM
It's a good question. I would like to see the NCAA's answer.
Well, the catch with the head coach position in any sport at any level is that there are solid coaches getting fired season after season because a team either just sucks ass or has an uncharacteristic bad start. I think a lot of the time, the people who make these decisions (and Dungy's right about it in the NCAA, it's not just the AD's decision) would rather give a currently unemployed coach with name recognition a second chance than to give a qualified black coach a first chance.
Extra Stout
02-20-2009, 08:10 AM
The kind of people who make the dismantling of racial barriers a priority probably don't give a lot of money to big college football programs.
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