Quote:INDIANAPOLIS -- Minorities are getting more interviews but are still not getting enough jobs in college football, according to the Black Coaches and Administrators.

The study released Wednesday by the group said almost a third of the candidates interviewed last year were minorities, but only four were hired among the 31 openings in the NCAA's two levels of Division I football.

The recent firings of Ty Willingham at Washington and Ron Prince at Kansas State -- both effective at the end of the season -- left the Bowl Subdivision, the NCAA's top division, with only four blacks, one Latino and one Pacific Islander as head coaches.

"In the world of college football, the facts and statistics reflect an unmistakable bias and a systemic problem that has yet to be fixed. My deep concern is, why are the college football hiring practices out of synch?" said BCA executive director Floyd Keith, who did not have an answer to that question.

"The message in this report is the process is being followed, but the poor hiring results continue," he said.

Among the 31 schools in the FBS and Championship Subdivision, formerly I-A and I-AA, that hired head coaches in the past year, 16 received overall grades of A, which is up from 11 that received the highest grade in the 2007 report, 12 in 2006 and just four in 2005.

On the other hand, three schools -- Mississippi, West Virginia and Dayton -- received grades of F. That, too, was an improvement from the 10 that had failing grades in the last report. ....MORE

I'm sorry, but this pisses me the "F" off. 4 out of 31? What's that? Don't worry, I've done the math. It's 12.9%. About .5% higher than the percentage of black Americans in this country, ....and the "BCA" still isn't happy. Go figure. You can't please the damn NAALCP either. How many SWAC colleges have white head coaches? How many white running backs do we have? How about white receivers? I hope about 70% are white. ....but I'm pretty sure that isn't the damn case.

As for Ole Miss, we didn't interview any black candidates? Hey, MORONS, we didn't interview ANY coaches. Coach Nutt called and we offered. No white coaches were interviewed either, d1pshits.

Damn I hate this PC bullshat.

Dont give me none of that no white running backs or receiver bull crap. If the whities were good enough they would play. The percent of the population that is black doesnt matter here the fact that what? 55-70% (whatever the stat is) of the kids playing college football are black is what matters.

Just look at the NFL 7 out of 32 head coaches are black. Thats what? About 20%. That seems more appropriate.

I dont know if racism plays a part in it or not but its not a representative ratio.

The fact that there will be only 4 black coaches out or 119 should be somewhat troubling to you regardless of your race.

Terpy Wrote:If the whities were good enough they would play.

so would I be racist if I said that if blacks were good enough they would coach? and did you really mean to type whities?

Yes I did. And your argument would be valid except for the fact that they havent been given the chance. The SEC hired its first black coach in 2004 for pete's sake.

Also one of the greatest coaches of all time (Eddie Robinson) just happened to be black.

How are the current black coaches doing in the BCS?

You're missing the entire point.

No you're missing the point. Your claim that 7% is a representative sample is blatantly false.

But as far as your question Randy Shannon is doing a fine job trying to turn Miami around, Turner Gill is in first place in the MAC East division, and Kevin Sumlin is having a solid season at Houston, evn Sylvester Croom has an outside chance at being Bowl eligible for the 2nd straight year at Mississippi State.

Ron Prince and even Ty Willingham got raw deals if you ask me. Prince was fired before he even had a chance to build a program. Willingham was recruting talent at U Dub but had his team decimated by injuries. The same thing will happen there as did at Notre Dame the next guy will come in and win with Ty's guys.

I mean come on guys, there have been what? 8 black head coaches in this history of D I A college football? You really dont see a problem with that? There are nearly that many in the 32 team NFL right now.

Terpy Wrote:I mean come on guys, there have been what? 8 black head coaches in this history of D I A college football? You really dont see a problem with that? There are nearly that many in the 32 team NFL right now.

If they're qualified, they'll be interviewed. If they show a successful history, they'll be hired.

BTW, how many white coaches are coaching at any HBCU's?

...as for Ole Miss? Maybe the race-baiters should have done a little more history before slamming my school's decision to hire Houston Nutt.

We had at black coach for 3 years (99-01). He won 6 games in 3 years and was subsequently fired for poor performance and poor game attendance (by 2001, average game attendance was below 10,000). He sued the schools claiming he was fired because he was black. Sad thing, HE WON over $2 million from the school. You think we are going to go out and hire another black coach now? If he doesn't work out and is subsequently fired, he'll sue and win. He won more in the court room than he did on the football field.

So you tell me, why should we hire a black coach?

Not to mention, at the same time he was football coach, we had the men's basketball coach was black. And he had the audacity to claim our administation was racist. That black basketball ended up taking another job at U of San Francisco. You know who took his place? Another black coach.

Oh and now that Osama (Freudian slip) is President-elect, I think we can now all stop with the race card. If a "black" man come become president, then obviously someone's skin color is not stopping them from being successful.

Another thing, can we start a WCA? I think it's only fair.