Jim Trotter@JimTrotter_NFL
For the late-arriving crowd: The lack of black head coaches in the NFL is not a league issue, it’s an ownership issue. Owners are master contortionists when coming up with reasons why we aren’t “qualified” or “ready”. 32 teams: 1 black GM, 3 black coaches.
Judy Battista@judybattista
If Ron Rivera is the only minority HC hired in this cycle, that would be a total of three in the last three cycles. NFL would have just four minority HCs this season. And that is a bad trend. Owners/league office have to figure out how to make Rooney Rule really work.
Robert Klemko@RobertKlemko
After Eric Bieniemy snub, Joe Judge hire, coaching agent I spoke with projects a small exodus of black assistants from NFL to college ranks. “They’re starting to feel like there’s no future for them in the NFL.”
Alex Kirshner@alex_kirshner
The NFL is shutting out black coaches, who might want to move to college. But college’s track record on this is even worse.
Steve Wyche@wyche89
League office has done a hell of a lot: identifying worthy coaching and GM candidates and giving that data base to each team; holding coaching clinics for further identification for teams, and much more. This is an owner issue.
Bucky Brooks@BuckyBrooks
It goes beyond the head coaching candidates. Pay closer attention to the recently hired assistants. Not many AA/minority coaches have been picked up to date. We will see a few RB, WR and DB coaches trickle in but the NFL pipeline doesn’t feature many POC. Check the stats…