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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
If you are hiring for a leader of a team of engineers, wouldn’t a person employed by a top engineering firm have a significant edge? Wouldn’t you favor a guy from Harvard? So if black people make up half of the talent pool and 2/3 of the pro pool, it defies reason that they would represent 3% of their leadership. These are guys who obviously know a shitload about football, have “field experience”, and were trained by the Sabans and Smarts of the world, let alone by nfl coaches.
And if you had an office that was 2/3 Hispanic, wouldn’t a Hispanic at least have a good shot because of how they’re able to connect with the team? Wouldn’t a guy who grew up from the streets or poverty we’ll connect with nfl rosters that very often grew up from rough backgrounds?
The whole thing defies any logic. Since you’ve been on the hiring end, I’m sure you also understand the controls companies put in place to make sure hiring does not discriminate and also does not favor. Resume screens are blind because it was shown that ethnic names significantly fail resume screens. You have diverse hiring panels, diverse conferences, leadership development programs, etc… Would you agree that diverse talent today is way more qualified than it was 20 years ago? It’s not because of quotas. It’s because they do way more to make sure the hiring process truly gives everyone a shot to at least be heard and many of them will shine if you recruit and develop them right.
The nfl always seems to lag behind on basic issues like this. The fact that Daniel Snyder got away as recently as a decade ago with a blatant hostile workplace shows that too much is old school. Nepotism continues to be a HUGE force in the nfl meaning the process is way more about who you know vs what you know. Black GMs may not be hiring black head coaches. But they seem to be doing way more to make sure their staffs are diverse. As I’ve said before it seems more a bottoms up issue than top down. This is a failure to bring quality diverse talent in and develop and advance them appropriately. I suspect it will solve itself in a few years. But only after decades of failed practices.
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Wonder if Affirmative Action laws will ever apply to the player side of the NFL? I guess not, because of the the definition of the term, and we all want to see the best of the best on the field.