re: Steelers owner Art Rooney II says changes will be made to Rooney Rule

Weren’t there at least 3 black coaches in the nfl this year?

That’s about 10 percent or proper representation based on population break down.

I never understood what problem they are trying to solve.

Interviewing isn’t necessarily the issue.

Getting pissy over a lack of minority hires in an offseason is a problem, especially if there weren’t good candidates to choose from.


The pool of candidates to choose from in general is fairly small these days, as they tend to be retread head coaches, currently employed coordinators, or the occasional college coach (Bill O’Brien, Matt Rhule, etc).


If Rooney wants to make a bigger push toward diversity in head coaching, he needs to push teams to hire minority position coaches and identify ones who have the potential to move up to coordinator jobs.

Someone who makes their bones as a coordinator tends to become a hot candidate for head coaching jobs.

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To hell with qualifications just force teams to hire minorities. That is where this is headed. I wonder why they are so worried minority coaches but why not more whites on the field? Where are the white corner backs?

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Diversity = less white people

And that would probably increase the number of minority coaches, since the retreads tend to be white.

you cant and you shouldnt force teams to hire coaches they dont want

skin color means nothing, its about wins and loses and how you deal with people.

Bunch of liberal bullshite, hire the best guy black or white

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I wonder why they are so worried minority coaches but why not more whites on the field? Where are the white corner backs?

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I hate this counter argument, it is either disingenuous or racist.

Black people are better athletes on average due to genetics. Are white people better coaches due to genetics?

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Yeah. You do. You just can't say it without being labeled

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Well you always hear the league is high percentage black but coaches are not as high, but the idea that it requires the same skill set to run a fade route as running a football program is laughable.

OK,Art Rooney II, be careful what you mandate.

You sound as if you are a smidge away from mandating hires based on race.

If you do, what you are making is a
'never fire the white guys in your employ"
" better the coach you know than the unknown coach you've never worked with",
"take recommendation with extreme caution"- is the coach any good or is somebody just trying to get rid of him?

Why should an organization be required to interview someone based off race or gender.

You should be able to interview and hire whoever you want.

If I owned a team or business I’d want the best candidate for the job whether they were a woman or man, Asian, Hispanic, black,