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Having watched ESPN with Sportscenter, ESPN2 with Mike and Mike and ESPN with PTI, I am struck with one inescapable realization:

If I was a college Athletic Director at any level, or a college President at any level, I would be extremely hesitant to hire a black coach for any sport. In fact, if my decision to fire someone is to be analyzed and scrutinized with racial overtones to the nth degree, I would not even consider hiring a minority coach.

All the talking heads are lamenting how Faust and Davies got to fill out their contracts but Willingham is now gone with two years left on his contract. However, no one has stated the obvious that maybe Notre Dame has decided to bite the bullet early instead of later on when the program has gone a way they do not want it to proceed any further and not repeat the errors which saw Notre Dame football become a mere shadow of itself.

As a life-long Notre Dame hater (like another FReeper posted, my favorite college team is anyone playing against Notre Dame) it pains me to write this about Notre Dame at a time when I should be gloating. But I have noticed that whenever any black coach or baseball manager is fired, the sports media seems to always bring up racial aspects and ignore all else in the reportage.

Note to excerpt police: I am not sure of posting policies with regard to ESPN.com, so I have done so on the side of "practicing safe posting." The link should take anyone who wishes to review the entire article directly to Page2 on the ESPN site.

This is the main reason why teams are reluctant to hire black coaches. Big-time college and pro sports are aimed at one thing and one thing only, winning. If a coach can't win, he is fired.

Problem being is that if you fire a black head coach, the revrun jasson and his ilk will scream "racist!" at the top of their lungs. Therefore it's easier to not hire a black coach than to take a chance on one.

Willingham was fired because he couldn't get the job done. Yes he is a talented coach who won at Stanford, but each situation is different. All things being equal, he would get another chance at another school, but the thing holding him back is the "blame whitey" crowd led by Jethie ans Al Tharpton.

"If I was a college Athletic Director at any level, or a college President at any level, I would be extremely hesitant to hire a black coach for any sport. In fact, if my decision to fire someone is to be analyzed and scrutinized with racial overtones to the nth degree, I would not even consider hiring a minority coach."

~in the first place.
Since you expressed my sentiments quite nicely I added a small detail to round out the thought.

"All the talking heads are lamenting how Faust and Davies got to fill out their contracts but Willingham is now gone with two years left on his contract."

But it's not like ND didn't have to ante up the 2 years of Willingham's contract in cold hard cash, right?
Bet that wasn't, & won't be mentioned by any of the race pimps in the Liberal-Socialist quisling media, either.
And BTW, I don't think the omission of that detail is very fair in the interest of honest reporting.

"However, no one has stated the obvious that maybe Notre Dame has decided to bite the bullet early instead of later on when the program has gone a way they do not want it to proceed any further and not repeat the errors which saw Notre Dame football become a mere shadow of itself."

Or that maybe just perhaps Mr. Willingham permitted his [titanic] ego to run his mouth at a meeting whereby he told a roomfull of Catholic [priests?] running the university to go pound sand?
Something ya don't do in any setting *unless* you really want to be terminated.

"But I have noticed that whenever any black coach or baseball manager is fired, the sports media seems to always bring up racial aspects and ignore all else in the reportage."

Sure, but if & when it's a *religious* institution, the Liberal-Socialist quislings really enjoy piling on with the baloney.

This is not about "race" or the quisling mediot's *concern* about this or any other black coach.
It's about *religion*.

And that is just too sweet, to custom made an opportunity to slander organized religion for our ignoble quisling media.

...to ever pass up.