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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: GeronL

Sadly, you are right.


61 posted on 01/19/2013 10:43:47 AM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The Ray Rhodes experiment in Green Bay in 1999 was a total bust. It was the black players who openly mocked the guy.


62 posted on 01/19/2013 10:57:46 AM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: chris37
Why no dwarves?

Great idea. A dwarf head coach would be 20% cooler!

63 posted on 01/19/2013 11:16:33 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio)
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To: chris37

“So the primary qualification a team should conisder for a coach is the skin color?

What about the sex?

Why aren’t there any women coaches?

Why no dwarves?”

If you added Jewish, the team would probably be owned by Jesse Helms.


64 posted on 01/19/2013 11:17:00 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I own a weapon to protect my family from those wanting to take that weapon away.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

You don’t win Super Bowl’s with affirmative action hires. You win Super Bowls with proven winners.


65 posted on 01/19/2013 11:18:09 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

This thread really needs the “not this (stuff) again” guy!


66 posted on 01/19/2013 11:21:51 AM PST by jocon307
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To: Einherjar

Amish coaches would ban pigskin footballs.


67 posted on 01/19/2013 11:22:31 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

hehe

Jews have their current token, Da Bears’ Marc Trestman.


68 posted on 01/19/2013 11:23:03 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Obama was given a Nobel Peace Prize just because he’s Black...just keep pretending or you’re a racist.


69 posted on 01/19/2013 11:27:05 AM PST by blam
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To: GeronL
Not enough whites ON the field either, can we “fix” that??

And asians...

70 posted on 01/19/2013 11:34:48 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Sometimes it takes calamity to lead to serenity - FReeper RacerX1128)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Where are all the white basketball players, especially on the Harlem Globetrotters.


71 posted on 01/19/2013 11:44:40 AM PST by Venturer
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To: kjo

Yep that is maddening. Just pure idiocy


72 posted on 01/19/2013 11:45:21 AM PST by Carry me back
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To: ConservativeStatement

Don’t take Kevin Sumlin! Leave him at A&M for awhile!!!!!


73 posted on 01/19/2013 11:52:03 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: GeronL

MLK’s birthday was Jan 15 until some doofus government types decided to move it to the Monday after the third Sunday in January.


74 posted on 01/19/2013 11:54:20 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
As CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman pointed out Thursday night, none of the eight coaches hired this offseason was of color.

Actually, all eight of the coaches are of color. They are Caucasian.

75 posted on 01/19/2013 12:43:19 PM PST by Isabel C.
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To: Cyber Liberty

That’s because AZ hiring made it 13 for 13, all of the head coach and GM vacancies filled by white guys. Which is kind of odd, but I challenge them to find better candidates. Of course that doesn’t stop the whiners.


76 posted on 01/19/2013 12:49:45 PM PST by discostu (I recommend a fifth of Jack and a bottle of Prozac)
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To: prisoner6

Tomlin wasn’t a Rooney Rule interview, they’d already had that, and he’s taken them to 2 Super Bowls. I think he’s doing alright.


77 posted on 01/19/2013 12:53:11 PM PST by discostu (I recommend a fifth of Jack and a bottle of Prozac)
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To: discostu

“Tomlin wasn’t a Rooney Rule interview, they’d already had that, and he’s taken them to 2 Super Bowls. I think he’s doing alright.”

Tomlin did quite well with the team he inherited. Get back with us in a couple of years when he misses the playoffs multiple years in a row


78 posted on 01/19/2013 1:31:21 PM PST by Figment
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To: ConservativeStatement

The affirmative action coaches haven’t turned out so well. The NFL is luckier than other businesses because the government doesn’t sic the EEOC on teams that don’t meet federal quotas for hiring.

Now that the Left has noticed that White coaches are being hired, Obama may do some shake downs to get more Blacks on the side lines. No one ever mentions that Blacks are grossly over-represented on the field, of course. And we won’t even bring up basketball.


79 posted on 01/19/2013 1:33:18 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Figment

He’s been head coach for 6 years. His first trip to the Super Bowl was his second season, given normal NFL turnover more than half that team wasn’t there for Cowher. That’s not inherited, that’s his.


80 posted on 01/19/2013 1:34:33 PM PST by discostu (I recommend a fifth of Jack and a bottle of Prozac)
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