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NFL looking into lack of minority hiring for head coaching jobs
CBS Sports ^ | January 18, 2013 | Josh Katzowitz

Posted on 01/19/2013 9:41:00 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

As CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman pointed out Thursday night, none of the eight coaches hired this offseason was of color. In all, teams went 0-for-8 in hiring minorities (or as Freeman wrote, “0-fer-black”).

Though the Rooney Rule is in place and does lead to minority candidates legitimately interviewing for head coaching jobs, you also have to wonder how effective that mandate is. Well, the NFL has taken notice and plans to do something about it.

Here's the statement from Robert Gulliver, the NFL's executive vice president of human resources:

(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: football; minorities; nfl; race; racism
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To: chris37

It’s crazy stupid.

What’s even worse than the NFL coaching quotas — the nation elected an ultra-left wing Senator for president simply because he was black.


81 posted on 01/19/2013 2:13:27 PM PST by heye2monn
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To: GeronL

maybe the nfl should zero’s cabinet picks to ensure diversity.


82 posted on 01/19/2013 2:16:02 PM PST by bravo whiskey (“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”)
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To: chris37
Yes, surely sex as well as age Who wants to be accused of sexism and ageism? Then there is the ethnic factor. How many coaches are Mexicans? And what about sexual orientation? I recall a while back several players made statements in support of gays and/or “came out of the closet” or something like it.
83 posted on 01/19/2013 2:22:38 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: prisoner6

All kinds of people seem to hate Brady and Bellichick. I can’t really figure out why, other than they can’t stand success because it reminds them of what failures they themselves are.
I’m not a huge football fan but it’s pretty hard to find fault with what the Patriots have done since Tom Brady started taking the snaps. The only thing they couldn’t manage to do was beat the stinkin Gnats when it counted most.


84 posted on 01/19/2013 2:34:19 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: GeronL

I am 5’8”, 62 and of white European heritage.

I am demanding - DEMANDING! - that the NFL and/or the NBA put me on one of their teams and pay me on par with the league average salary. There is not enough divesity in each team’s palyers.

After all, it’s for the kids.... (sarc)


85 posted on 01/19/2013 2:53:32 PM PST by llevrok (ObamaLand - Where young people go to retire)
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To: apocalypto

Correction: The gay “coming out” or whatever was in the NHL.


86 posted on 01/19/2013 2:53:49 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: ConservativeStatement

My hubby and I have decided we will not watch the Super Bowl this year. Politics and sports do not mix.


87 posted on 01/19/2013 2:57:30 PM PST by dforest
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To: hinckley buzzard

Actually Lovie has a darn good lifetime record (81-63) and made the Superbowl with Rex Grossman as his qb.
I’m not sure why he didn’t get hired. A lot of teams would kill for the 10 win season that got him fired.


88 posted on 01/19/2013 2:59:54 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

“Response: Let us be frank in the United States the term “minorities” means black.”

IMHO in the corporate world it is more often code for “female”.


89 posted on 01/19/2013 3:11:56 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

True enough.


90 posted on 01/19/2013 3:15:47 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Past Your Eyes

“The only thing they couldn’t manage to do was beat the stinkin Gnats when it counted most.”

There there (dabbing with imaginary napkin at tears).

GO GIANTS!


91 posted on 01/19/2013 3:17:19 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

They have already went. It was in all the papers.


92 posted on 01/19/2013 4:02:15 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Not a big football fan myself. Liked the old Steelers....kinda like Green Bay and the Vikes....GO PATS!

Now NASCAR...well the way it USED TO BE...different story, LOL!

93 posted on 01/19/2013 4:45:23 PM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: nascarnation

It has become an offense oriented league and his forte is defense with some very bad offensive years in Chicago.


94 posted on 01/19/2013 4:48:19 PM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What is it they say about football coaches, “You’ve got to be smart enough to do the job, but dumb enough to think it’s important”?


95 posted on 01/19/2013 4:57:55 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: ThunderSleeps

This isn’t really a matter of who is ‘qualified’ for the job, as much as who is the best possible coach that each team is able to identify and hire. (But we’re getting at the same point.)

Still, it is very human to justify any advantage given—and to take it. Used to be done in a way that disadvantaged blacks, but now obviously it gives them the advantage.


96 posted on 01/19/2013 5:13:29 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: unixfox
Political correctness has already killed most of the nation.

"Political Correctness is intellectual AIDS. Everything it touches it sickens and eventually kills."

--William S. Lind

97 posted on 01/19/2013 11:17:07 PM PST by QT3.14
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To: prisoner6

I have never been a fan of the pretty boy roundy-rounds of any era. More fun to watch a demolition derby.


98 posted on 01/20/2013 12:50:09 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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