BLACK OUT: How the NFL blocks Black coaches

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2022/nfl-black-head-coaches/
Archived link: https://archive.ph/wVExF

BLACK OUT
How the NFL blocks Black coaches
Nearly two decades after the NFL enacted the Rooney Rule, teams’ hiring and firing practices still disadvantage Black coaches at every turn — and it’s getting worse, a Post investigation found.

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Despite the league’s end-zone pledge to “END RACISM,” Black coaches continue to be denied top jobs in a league where nearly 60 percent of the players are Black.

It is a glaring shortcoming for the NFL, one highlighted by the findings of an investigation by The Washington Post. Black coaches tend to perform about as well as White coaches, The Post found. But while White candidates are offered a vast and diverse set of routes to the league’s top coaching jobs, Black coaches face a much narrower set of paths. They have had to serve significantly longer as mid-level assistants, are more likely to be given interim jobs than full-time ones and are held to a higher standard when it comes to keeping their jobs.

Since 1990, Black coaches have been twice as likely as others to be fired after leading a team to a regular season record of .500 or better.

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Taken together, The Post’s analysis mirrors the sentiment among Black coaches that they are playing by a different set of rules than their White counterparts. The result, Black coaches said, is a league where many Black assistants have resigned themselves to the notion that they will never get an opportunity to be a head coach — a position that, in addition to the immeasurable prestige, also could pay, on average, 10 times what a mid-level assistant makes — while others have left the profession entirely.

Long, tons of data, worth a click.

[FSogol]

2. For fucks sake, why mirror the rest of the country when 70% of the players are black?

15%?

[jimfields33]

3. I deleted it. I was trying to be supportive.

[nycbos]

4. I'm SHOCKED SHOCKED to find gambling going on here.

[edhopper]

5. The owners

are almost all rich Republicans and Trump supporters. Might have something to do with it.

[a kennedy]

7. all for but one team, and that's the Green Bay Packers.....community owned. ♥️ the 💚 💛

[edhopper]

12. Yes

and considering the amount of public money they get. they should all be community owned. if they were Colin Kaepernick would be playing.

[cbabe]

8. Side note: how t destroyed a football league

https://www.espn.com › 30for30 › film › _ › page › small-potatoes-who-killed-the-usfl

Small Potatoes: Who killed the USFL? - ESPN Films

About Small Potatoes: Who Killed The USFL? Film Summary In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. The new league did the unthinkable...

[Buckeyeblue]

6. It amazes me how failed head coaches continue to get hired by other teams

I would think you would give someone new a chance before you just recycled the same old white guys.

[Johnny2X2X]

9. Ultimate old boys network

NFL team ownership is the ultimate showoff hotrod for a bunch of emotionally immature and damaged "alpha" males. It's machoism at it's most childish level. And these immature manboys only trust people to drive their big boy toys that look like they do.

[Yavin4]

10. Nepotism plays a huge role as well

You're much more likely to be a HC in the NFL if your father was one.

[TheRealNorth]

11. What about college football?

While it doesn't seem that as many NFL coaches come out of the college ranks as it used to be, I can't think of too many black college coaches. Only one that comes to mind is Lovie Smith, who used to be an NFL coach.