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Originally Posted by Shields68
Does being a nfl player correlate to being a above average coach is the question. Some of the best in the game have had no NFL experience. Bill, Andy, McVay, Shanihan.... to me if there is a correlation it is a love game, and figure out a way into coaching. Learning to dissect plays.
Further it is nice if a organization wants to help minorities. Give them a leg up, if they have an issue. But without an issue it becomes reverse discrimination.
The Rooney rule is meant to address this by giving minority candidates valuable interviews. The modification again was meant to as well. Sort of wonder if the latest modification on hiring a minority Head Coaces has back fired. Close call between two coaches and hiring the black coach gives the competition a good draft pick. Who ever thought of that is on drugs. You also need to be aware that not 3 years ago there were 7 black coaches. Maybe there is a natural eb and flow of the ethnicity of coaches.
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I actually think the new Rooney rule, even though it feels shadier, is working for GMs at least. Teams aren’t hiring black GMs because they have to. They’re doing it because they want to. I think what you’re seeing is that teams are trying harder to make their minority candidates more visible and putting them in prominent roles and they’re proving that they’re succeeding.
Similarly, you’re seeing that with coaching. We’re not seeing that with head coaching yet, but we are seeing that with assistant coaches. A lot of the new coordinator hires this year were black. And in the playoffs this year, we saw a ton of black coordinators. You’d have to think that’s the same deal where teams are trying harder to develop the hell out of their black talent. So maybe this problem starts to solve itself. But it’s clear from the lack of candidates between 40-50 that this was not being done. Seems common sense but it’s a shame it took incentives to make it happen.