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BCA gives third report card.

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Minority hiring report card hands out Cs, Ds, Fs

Posted: Wednesday November 9, 2005 12:21AM; Updated: Wednesday November 9, 2005 12:21AM

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Karl Dorrell of UCLA is one of only three Division I-A black football coaches.
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- More than half of the 30 schools making football coaching changes last year will receive grades of "C, D or F" when this year's minority hiring report card is released Wednesday.
This is the third year the Black Coaches Association has issued the report card.
Grades are based on results in categories that include the percentage of minorities involved in the hiring process, the number of minority candidates who received interviews and the schools' contacts with either BCA executive director Floyd Keith or the chairman of the NCAA's Minority Opportunity and Interests Committee.
Seventeen schools are expected to receive average, below average or failing grades.
But the report showed little change among the number of high-scoring schools in Division I-A. The 2004 report card showed that although only one school actually hired a minority coach, six received overall grades of "A." This year's report card indicates the number of schools receiving an "A" remained about the same, while the number of schools receiving a "B" increased.
Grades for individual schools were expected to be made available Wednesday.
In Division I-AA, there was a decline among the top-scoring schools. In 2004, two schools received an "A" compared with none this year, and the number of schools getting a "B" also dropped.
Keith is advising student-athletes to use the report card when making decisions about attending college and said in a written statement that if there is not significant progress next year, the BCA would consider legal action against schools based on hiring inequity.
Only three Division I-A football programs have black coaches -- Sylvester Croom of Mississippi State, Karl Dorrell of UCLA and Tyrone Willingham of Washington. Willingham, who was fired by Notre Dame last year, was the only black coach hired this year after the 2004 season.
Lou West, who was hired by Indiana State in January, is the only black head coach in Division I-AA at a non-historically black college or institution.
NCAA President Myles Brand has urged athletic directors to take a closer look at minority coaching candidates.
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BCA will consider legal action under civil rights legislation

INDIANAPOLIS -- The head of a black coaches group is frustrated by the lack of minority head coaches in college football, and his remedy may be to go to court.
Keith Floyd, executive director of Black Coaches and Administrators, said Tuesday his group will consider legal action under civil rights legislation.
"We've brought that up and it will be considered on a case-by-case basis," Keith told The Associated Press before the announcement of this year's BCA hiring report card. "But it has to be the right case."
When Keith said his group would begin compiling the annual report in 2002, he promised to re-evaluate the BCA's tactics if he didn't see measurable progress. After four years of promoting the value of diversity and sifting through statistics, Keith is disappointed by the slow pace of progress.
Of 33 coaches hired last season by the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A and I-AA, only two minority head coaches were hired -- Randy Shannon at Miami and Mario Cristobal, a Hispanic, at Florida International.
Excluding the historically black colleges and universities that play football, the other 220 schools making up Division I had 12 minority head coaches at the start of this season. One of those, Indiana State's Lou West, has already been fired after going 1-25 in a little more than two seasons with the Sycamores.
The report says only 26 black coaches have been hired at FBS schools, and of the 197 openings since 1996, only 12 have gone to blacks.
Some believe the courts could help spur change.
"If somebody gave me a timeline as to how long it would take and what's possible, sure, let's go that route," said Georgia Tech basketball coach Paul Hewitt, the BCA president. "I'm really more interested in getting more interviews for candidates."
Others believe the power of persuasion would create quicker results.
"I think more individuals would be hired faster and sooner without a lawsuit," said Charlotte Westerhaus, the NCAA's vice president of diversity and inclusion.
Another troubling sign for Keith and his proponents is that this year's report card includes a record number of overall grades of F (10). Eleven schools received A's, the second most in the four-year history of the report card.
The data also show that while 54.5 percent of the schools received a grade of A or B, that declined from last year's 57.7 percent and is a significant drop over the 64.3 percent compiled in the inaugural report of 2003-04.
Two schools, Georgia Southern and San Diego, received all F's for not responding to the BCA's survey. Other major schools receiving an overall F included Alabama, Air Force and Louisville.
Four schools -- Florida International, Iowa State, Michigan State and Stanford -- received straight A's. Other big schools to receive an A were Cincinnati, Miami and North Carolina.
Richard Lapchick, director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at Central Florida, called football the most segregated sport in college athletics.
"We have called on the NCAA and president Myles Brand to adopt an 'Eddie Robinson Rule,' a college version of the NFL's Rooney Rule mandating that people of color be interviewed for all head coaching positions with sanctions for those who do not," he wrote in a statement included in the report.
The Rooney Rule required NFL teams interview at least one minority candidate for each head coaching vacancy. The result has been a gradual increase in black coaches around the league, although that number dropped from a record seven to six this season when Art Shell and Dennis Green were fired and Mike Tomlin was hired in Pittsburgh.
Tomlin, Keith said, was a candidate for three college jobs last year but received only one interview before going to the Steelers.
Keith believes the Rooney Rule could be a model for changes at the NCAA level, too, and said there has been significant discussion among the BCA, the Fritz Pollard Alliance and FBS athletic directors to implement a similar rule.
"I don't think the NFL should be four to five times higher than the NCAA," he said, pointing to the difference among the percentage of black coaches -- 18.8 in the NFL vs. 5.5 in the FBS and FCS.
Westerhaus, however, said the NCAA cannot enforce that kind of rule because of institutional rules on hiring practices.

Entire article: ESPN - BCA may use courts to get more minority coaches - College Football
 
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Black Coaches and Administrators attempting to take its fight to court

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Floyd Keith is tired of waiting for more black coaches to be hired to lead major college football programs and is hoping to make a federal case out of the issue.
After years of attempting to persuade university administrators into hiring minority football coaches, the executive director of the Black Coaches and Administrators has started searching for a potential lawsuit.
Last week, the BCA opened a national telephone hotline that offers legal advice to coaches, a move that could eventually lead to a landmark case against universities under civil rights legislation.
"I think someone is going to get tired of listening to the excuses," Keith told The Associated Press. "We're giving them (the coaches) every opportunity, but we can't select the individuals. The individuals have to bring this forward. We are looking very strongly at every case, and we're taking it on an individual basis."
Keith and others consider the number of minority coaches in college football an outright disgrace.
Yes, Keith acknowledges, more black coaches have been granted interviews in recent years, but when compared to the number of minority coaches in college basketball or the NFL, college football lags far behind.
A year ago, Keith estimated 23 to 26 percent of college basketball coaches were minorities, while college football is now down to four blacks among the 119 Football Bowl Subdivision teams, or 3.4 percent. By comparison, nearly one-fourth of the NFL's 32 teams (seven) have minority head coaches and the only black coach hired during this recent round comings and goings has been Mike Locksley at New Mexico.
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Entire article: BCA may take its fight for black coaches to court - NCAA Football - Bowls - 2008 - SI.com
 
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Yes, Keith acknowledges, more black coaches have been granted interviews in recent years, but when compared to the number of minority coaches in college basketball or the NFL, college football lags far behind.
A year ago, Keith estimated 23 to 26 percent of college basketball coaches were minorities, while college football is now down to four blacks among the 119 Football Bowl Subdivision teams, or 3.4 percent.

I never understood this as an argument. The same athletic directors are hiring the basketball coaches, no?

I'm not saying this isn't a problem, but, leading a major college football program is no small job... and... an extensive resume helps. I guess my question would be, are there a growing number of minority assistants or minority coaches in FCS? Just seems to me that there are other matrices to determine if things are heading in the right direction even if the numbers aren't going up directly.

I am happy to see that Turner Gill is a hot name, that helps. The old Tribe farmhand* will get his big shot soon enough. (Auburn probably did him a favor, btw)


*no, I'm not confusing him with Turner Ward. :wink:
 
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Being an NFL head coach necessitates an extensive resume, and that league has a far better record of minority hiring than college football does. Granted, you still have your handful of teams that will just interview Art Shell to make it look like they're trying, but the NFL is still much better than CFB.

I think the NFL does a better job of hiring and promoting minority coordinators. How many prominent minority coordinators can you think of in college football? The head coach problem may not be an problem with the ADs and university presidents so much as it may be a problem with the head coaches. Are they seeking out minority candidates to fill out their staff? Are they being promoted to positions of greater responsibility as warranted?
 
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We are talking about what... 15 to 20 people being harmed? Ya, that is a good reason to sue.

Be patient people. It will happen. It sure as hell would help if most of the D1 black coaches did not fall flat on thier ass when they get hired.
 
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Charlie Strong is one of the better minority assistants in the history of college football.
Joker Phillips is the "coach in waiting" at Kentucky (and a damn fine O-Coordinator).
Rodney Gardner is probably a Top Three recruiting coordinator in the SEC (hands off buckeyes - :pissed: :wink: )

The defensive Coordinator at Texas Tech
The defensive coordinator at S. Carolina
 
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jlb1705;1359279; said:
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I think the NFL does a better job of hiring and promoting minority coordinators. How many prominent minority coordinators can you think of in college football? The head coach problem may not be an problem with the ADs and university presidents so much as it may be a problem with the head coaches. Are they seeking out minority candidates to fill out their staff? Are they being promoted to positions of greater responsibility as warranted?
This is where I think that the problem lies. Black assistants are pigeon holed into position coaching positions with little or no chance of becoming coordinators. Black assistants are good for recruiting, but coordinator positions still go to old friends of whatever network the head coach came from. Good old boy or otherwise.
 
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