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"While the percentages [of minority coaches] are slightly better, the general picture is still one of white men running college sport," the report's co-author, Richard Lapchick told the Associated Press. "Overall, the numbers simply do not reflect the diversity of our student-athletes. Moreover, they do not reflect the diversity of our nation where we have elected an African-American as President for the first time."
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The study also looked at university leadership, which includes presidents and athletic directors, and found that 91 percent are held by white folks. Lapchick believes that NCAA should adopt a rule similar to the NFL's Rooney Rule where the league sanctions teams that do not interview minority candidates for coaching jobs. Lapchick hopes that Obama's election will make an impact on the hiring of minority candidates.
"His presidency will get people's attention, whether or not he gets involved," he said. "People will wonder: How can we have an African-American president and the lowest number of coaches in 15 years?"
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By: reflections on 11/07/2008 9:11AM
A caoch is hired or fired on how well he is preceived in his abilities to do his job. Not skin color and not percentages of racial mix/diversity. Simply do your job well and no one will complain about the color of your skin.
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By: mormoney on 11/08/2008 10:01AM
How many teams in the NCAA
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By: Mac on 11/10/2008 8:24AM
When the republicans say that they hate big government it's because they don't want the states to have their decisions contested by the federal government. Whenever Blacks fought for anything it would be from the support of the federal gov't help that they would win because the states were ran by the people doing the dirt so republicans hate "BIG GOVERNMENT" or oversight. When schools were first integrated the Black students had to be protected by federal troops because state cops were in on the BullSht. That is the hate for BIG GOVERNMENT by republicans. When you hear conservatives “BIG SPENDING” democrats o liberals they hate social programs that are paid for by the government (programs for parolees Day care) needed to fix all they done to us. There are a few celebs with these views and yahoo and a site called "The Daily Standard listed them. These are people we support but have views that affect us in a bad way. Here are those celebs being listed because when they have $2300 to donate to republicans to when the White House and push agendas that hurt us it's like we are paying to hurt ourselves when we watch there shows on TV or in the movies and buy their music. I personally won't be doing that for any of them you can choose for yourself.
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By: Dennis on 11/11/2008 7:47AM
Oh no, here we go again about the "not enough black people problems" in sports. How many white athletes are there on the football teams where these black coaches are at....are we trying to keep this equal too? I'll bet the ratio is probably 70/30 for black/white athletes, but you won't say a word about that, will you???
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By: Bob on 11/14/2008 10:21AM
I don't understand how it can be wrong to demand a winning tradition. Ty Willingham is 11-34 at Washington and expected to end worse. He is 76-86 overall in his head coaching career. That calculates to an average of 5 wins/season. I don't care if the coach is black, white, male, or female. If you average 5 wins a season when you play 11 or more you are not doing something right and the program is entitled to make a change. If I failed over 50 percent of the time at my job i would expect to get fired.
How can you suggest that a college that generates so much revenue from the major sports take a gamble on an unproven coach white or black. Until the finger pointing stops nothing will be achieved. This is America where the right man or woman earns the job based on abilities not skin color.
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By: Drew on 11/14/2008 4:50PM
To Mac at 8:24AM on Nov 10th 2008
Please review your posting. I believe it will prove a point...spell check and proper word usage can be a good friend.
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By: Aundre on 11/24/2008 11:59AM
I am sure every sport fans has there opinion, but I an a African American coach(High School), and feels that a coach should not be hired based on his or her race, but I do think that it should be some type of rule or requirement that would give black coaches the opportunity to get in the hiring game. Because if teams are not even looking in your direction, because of your skin color then no matter how good you are you will never get a shot.
For an example, I had an All American Senior QB, two years ago, that was never got looked at by college scouts because the last five years of the program only won 6 games. I said all of that to say if the decision makers mind is already made up because of stereotype then black coaches, will always be playing on an unlevel playing field.
By the way my Senior QB was white, and is currently enrolled at a Jr College in the South.
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By: this_argument_is_rediculous on 11/29/2008 10:40PM
The fact that an 80% white America elected a black president by such a large margin certainly shows that race is a diminishing issue, and only a very few allow it to be a factor.
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By: tx-aggie on 12/05/2008 9:53PM
What next? This topic is silly. First of all lets get a list of potential candidates who are beung descriminated against in the opinion of the public, and I mean candidates who have an equal resume, and winning track record who are interested in the opportunity and have been rejected.
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By: john grace on 12/02/2008 12:41AM
Do you want racial quotas?You need to adress that there are too many negro players in college and pro ball.Negroes are 13% of the population.Negroes should not be more than 13% off players.Thats 1 in 8.I you want to be fair you must support this otherwise you support racial discrimination against white players.
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