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Sports: Few Black Coaches in Div. 1 Football
December 22nd, 2008Few Black coaches are in Div. 1 football. It looks like former NBA star Charles Barkley was onto something when he suggested that racism had kept his alma mater, Auburn University, from hiring a winning football coach (Buffalo University’s Turner Gill) over a losing White coach (Gene Chisik, from Iowa State). As it stands now, there are only four Black head coaches among the 119 major-college football programs. So, in a sport with 50 percent of its players Black, only 3.4 percent of the coaches are Black. Georgia Tech’s basketball coach, Paul Hewitt, who serves as the president of the Black Coaches Association, believes he has a solution for the dearth of Black major-college coaches. He puts the onus on African-American recruits and their families, whom he says should weigh an institution’s commitment to coaching diversity before choosing it. “If the top five defensive linemen and the top five offensive linemen in the country went to play for Randy Shannon at Miami and they won a national championship in two years, watch how fast this thing would change,” Hewitt said. “These kids need to say, ‘If my alma mater doesn’t display a record of hiring people who look like me, why should I go and help them?’
Why are 50% of the players black? We need affirmative action to let asians have a fair chance to play. Why should a disproportional % of the scholarships go to black athletes?
Yaya- 50% of the players are black because they have the talent. If an asian player is good enough then they will receive a scholarship. There is no disproportional percentage of scholarships going to black athletes, there is just a large percentage of black athletes who are scholarship worthy.
Takalina is correct. High school athletes have to go through a screening process to even be dubbed eligible to receive an athletic scholarship and most African-American High School parents only know this if told my the high school coach or college recruiter. Paul Hewitt is correct the parents as well as the players need to demand such diversity be apparent at schools that are recruiting their sons and daughters to enhance their programs. You could also say there aren’t that many black collegiate quarterbacks either (because they don’t want to stay in the pocket) — unfortunately college programs will take these players and put them as a tight end or wide receiver. This doesn’t surprise me — after all — all the southern states voted for John McCain.
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