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 ...
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.
maybe the nfl should zero’s cabinet picks to ensure diversity.
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.
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)
Correction: The gay “coming out” or whatever was in the NHL.
My hubby and I have decided we will not watch the Super Bowl this year. Politics and sports do not mix.
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.
“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”.
True enough.
“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!
They have already went. It was in all the papers.
Now NASCAR...well the way it USED TO BE...different story, LOL!
It has become an offense oriented league and his forte is defense with some very bad offensive years in Chicago.
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”?
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.
"Political Correctness is intellectual AIDS. Everything it touches it sickens and eventually kills."
--William S. Lind
I have never been a fan of the pretty boy roundy-rounds of any era. More fun to watch a demolition derby.
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