Posted on 03/29/2022 8:23:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The NFL believes it has a problem with having too few minority coaches among its ranks. So, they’ve decided to solve this problem by ordering each team to hire a “diverse person” to their offensive coaching staff.
The league informed teams of the new requirement in a memo sent Monday afternoon.
“All NFL teams will be required to have a “diverse person (female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority)” on staff as an offensive assistant in 2022,” Dallas Morning News reporter Michael Gehlken wrote. “This position will be funded, in part, by a stipend from league office. Rule designed to improve diversity of HC pipeline.”
The move comes as former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores pursues a case against the NFL for racism in their hiring practices. Flores brought the suit after he claimed the New York Giants interviewed him with no intention of hiring him as they had already decided to hire former Bills coach Brian Daboll to be the head coach.
The NFL has had the Rooney Rule in place for nearly twenty years. A regulation requiring teams to interview at least two minority candidates for a coaching position and at least one minority candidate for front-office positions. Women are also included under the Rooney Rule.
Up until recently, there were several minority head coaches in the league. However, after a slew of firings at the end of the 2021 season, Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin was the only minority coach left in the league.
With only two minority coaches hired in the latest hiring cycle, the league seems to have shifted from merely requiring interviews to actually mandating hires.
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Next time the US Congress finds it's balls, the federal last stringers should pull the National Felons League's federal antitrust exemption, and let the Lawfare decide.
You know, head coach talking this year's Offensive coaches, "ok one of you next season needs to change your name to a female name and wear a dress..."
Can we require the NBA to hire more white players?
And the NFL must hire more non blacks to play in the NFL.
Rotate the cheerleaders to the sidelines.
How offensive to dictate hires based on physical characteristics.
“Rotate the cheerleaders to the sidelines.”
Brilliant!
And then rotate them into the stands.
5.56mm
Howz about a trannie, NFL?
Complete your transition to the idiot side. Feel the hate.
And what makes the coaching staffs offensive is that they don’t have any affirmative action people on them?
...and what has your friend, who's clearly been wronged by Affirmative Discrimination done about it?
At some point, the victims portrayed as recipients need to start filing lawsuits. They're decades overdue.
They got one thing right.....
This is offensive.
Title VII, anyone?
The fiasco with the Giants and that dude who was recently fired by Miami was an embarrassment for the NFL. The Giants knew who they wanted as their new head coach but went through the motions of interviewing the other guy anyway — just to meet the terms of this stupid “Rooney Rule.”
I believe teams are presently seeking the best coaches regardless of race, etc.
Black/minority coaches ought to become good enough at coaching so that they will be sought after just as the best Black players are presently.
What's wrong with that?
Will Black coaches 'fail' coaching school?
Wonder if the Triple option offense diverse enough.
They can update it to modern times,I suspect.
Straight/Gay/Trans
The triple option as in the days of Noah..
-PJ
What’s a minority? Asians make up the bulk of the world’s population (roughly 60%). This is asinine.
NFL embraces Thai ladyboys for the win!
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