If you
look around in all American sports, not many minority coaches are hired. In
2013, not one minority coach was hired in the NFL, even with eight teams
looking for new head coaches to lead their franchises in the right direction.
This blog
takes a look at NFL when compared with other major American sports. The Rooney
rule in came into play in 2003, when the Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan
Rooney, who pushed the league to enforce every team to interview at least one
minority candidate every time there is a coaching or general manager opening.
To be
honest, it's kind of unfair to put the blame on the entire league when every
team has the right to hire the best coach, no matter what his ethnicity or
cultural heritage is.
NFL
teams, like teams in every single American sport, have the responsibility to
give their players and fans the best available coach out there. With that being
said, it's tough to disregard that the "best available coach" is
always a white guy. This country is made up of mostly white people, but the NFL
and other sports league are not.
Some
suggest the success of one minority coach can lead to greater opportunities for
other minority coaches. I don't know if this is entirely true. I mean would
people sit there and say, "Well he's black, and the black guy on the other
team is a good coach, so let's hire this guy because his skin color is
the same?"
Interesting take on the issue but also ex NFL players should take an interest in coaching once thier playing days are over most of them end up going to become pundits who just talk about the sport , its a good thing but they have played the game should get into the coaching side of it to.
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