347893 wrote:
joed|rt wrote:
I'm sure there are plenty of great black coaches out there, just as there are plenty of great white coaches out there as well. The skills required to be a great coach are not the same as the skills required to be a great player. The ratio of black coaches in the NFL over the past twenty years has been slightly above their composition of the general US population, so I don't know that there is really much of a bias in hiring coaches in the NFL. And are some of the great black coaches you speak of necessarily great coaches, or do they simply have better athletes? I coached coed rec soccer for a number of years before I started coaching competitive girls' soccer. The organization I coached for would overwhelmingly fill my roster with girls (with a few boys thrown in). In almost every game we played, we were at a physical disadvantage, but often times we would win because we were better coached. This past weekend we beat a competitive boys' team in a 5v5 tournament, not because we had better athletes (We didn't. The boys were bigger, faster and stronger.), but because we were more dynamic off the ball and fundamentally sound on defense.
SMH....the general population has never played football at the highest collegiate or pro level and don't have an intimate knowledge of how to lead an NFL team. Most of the people at that level are black.....and have been for over a generation (25 years). So it would make sense for many of them to matriculate into coaching the game at its highest level, since they are the ones who know it and played it at the highest level for generations.
In the next 3 weeks I expect at least 3 black head coaches hired.
I simply hope they hire the most qualified individual regardless of their race.