Posted on 02/01/2022 1:47:54 PM PST by bigdaddy45
Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores has filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL, the New York Giants, the Denver Broncos and the Dolphins claiming racial discrimination in the league's hiring process for coaches and executives.
Flores filed the suit in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. In it he accuses Dolphins owners Stephen Ross of offering him $100,000 for every loss in an effort to tank for the No. 1 draft pick during the 2019 NFL season and includes texts he alleges are from New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick demonstrating that the Giants conducted an interview with Flores while knowing that they already intended to hire Brian Daboll as head coach.
The suit alleges that the Giants interviewed Flores simply to satisfy the NFL's Rooney Rule mandate requiring that teams interview minority candidates.
(Excerpt) Read more at au.sports.yahoo.com ...
I’d give it a half-Kap for the moment. The claim about Ross is pure dynamite, and he was likely so mad at Ross for firing him that he threw in everything he could come up with.
If there’s a back story here, it will probably come out.
Once you pull the race card, it's game over. Untouchable.
Oh, I’m wrong. I’m surprised Mike Tomlin is the only black head coach after Flores was booted out. The NFL should have about 3 or 4 for equity sake
The suit alleges that the Giants interviewed Flores simply to satisfy the NFL's Rooney Rule mandate requiring that teams interview minority candidates.
I'm not an attorney but it seems that neither of these is the basis for a lawsuit.
OTOH, Flores just guaranteed he will never be hired again in the NFL. Plenty of other black head coaches have been fired - Romeo Crennel, Anthony Lynn, Ray Rhodes, Mike Singletary to name a few - and no one ever brought a lawsuit.
Heard today that the Dolphins owner is a UMich man and is very very interested in hiring Jim Harbaugh. Maybe that is the motivation behind Flores' dismissal.
True that. The majority of the time when a company is looking for someone they already have their hire in mind when they publicly advertise for the position.
I would further add that as the head coach, you work for the owner and the owner alone. He can fire you at any time and for any reason - even if he just doesn’t like your socks. Jerry Jones fired Jimmy Johnson after he won two Super Bowls.
Interesting. I wonder if he’d talked to Harbaugh. There’s a bunch of weird tampering rules.
The excerpts from the article you posted are either inaccurate or misleading it mentioned 24 teams, there’s 14 soon to be 16 teams in the SEC alone, where the schools make money is from private booster organizations that raise money to pay for the athletic program. At most big time schools you have to make a booster contribution for the privilege of purchasing season tickets at UF up until recently the minimum contribution was $100 person times 50,000 season tickets sold.
The other major source of revenue is TV, the SEC has its own TV network, a couple of years ago each team in the SEC regardless of record received 25-30 million just from the SEC network
The point is, yes some schools require financial support from the school but the major do not
As of this year college athletes can be paid the QB at Alabama reportedly made over 1 million this past year
Here’s a recent article about the new SEC network television contract which estimates each school will receive approximately 68 million per year in revenue combine that with booster contributions and conservatively that equals close 150-175 million per year before a single ticket is sold
Sports really destroys the “diversity is our strength” myth. You produce or are gone. NOBODY wants the affirmative action head coach.
Good coach that doesn't play well with the GM, not a good mix.
Bill needs to realign his contacts by last name, not first, LOL
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2020/11/20/do-college-sports-make-money/
Who's correct?
I can't absolutely say what's correct.
However my gut says if there's a chance that state institutions (i.e., colleges & universities) and professional sport grand-poobahs can pass costs to taxpayers they will do it!
I don’t deny your point but the major schools in the Power 5 conferences are self financing, in fact at UF the Athletic Department made contributions to the University in the neighborhood of several million dollars, outside of the Power 5 conferences most schools operate at a loss
I think the big schools secretly subsidize the poorer schools so they can have schools to beat up on....
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