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Collegiate Sports
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Report Shows Minorities Still Struggling To Get Coaching Jobs
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Buffalo's Turner Gill Is One Of Seven Black
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The Black Coaches & Administrators (BCA) yesterday announced its sixth Hiring Report Card, which "showed minorities, while more successful in getting interviews, are not being hired" as college football head coaches, according to Jeff Rabjohns of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. The report noted that "seven of 120 Division I-A programs have a black head coach, one fewer than 12 years ago." NBC analyst and retired coach Tony Dungy is "expected to take an active role in helping minorities land head coaching jobs in major college football," and his involvement was "one of several steps cited" in the report. NCAA VP/Diversity & Inclusion Charlotte Westerhaus said that 85% of D-I schools that hired a head coach in the past year "interviewed a minority but only five of the 32 jobs went to minorities." Westerhaus: "Now the focus needs to shift from the interview process to the hiring outcome." Rabjohns notes the BCA has also "called for an Eddie Robinson Rule for college football modeled after the NFL's Rooney Rule that requires a minority to be interviewed when a head coaching job opens." But the NCAA "does not have legal jurisdiction over schools' hiring practices" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 11/19). BCA Exec Dir Floyd Keith: "We are looking at every opportunity we can to advance the cause. I think the important thing for us is the part about hires, not interviews. We've hit the interview mark. Regardless of the direction, we've got to make the numbers work and they have to be better." Univ. of Central Florida Institute for Diversity & Ethics in Sport Dir Richard Lapchick "called it 'scandalous' that five of the six BCS conferences have no coaches of color." He wrote in the report that it is "time for a 'civil rights movement' in college sports." Lapchick "contends minority coaches lost ground last year because three black coaches at BCS schools ... were not retained" (AP, 11/18).
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