This type of quota grievance complaint is holding back real progress on racial relations. Who said a proportionate number amount of every profession has to be from each race? It has never been this way in the history of civilization for any profession.

Are you also perturbed by the disproportionate amount of black athletes in college and professional football and basketball? How about the disproportionate amount of blacks employed by the U.S Postal Service?

Sports teams want to win. They pick the best athletes regardless of skin color. In collage they often cheat on academic standards in order to get the best athletes. So you want us to believe that schools that will go to the outer limits to get the best athletes (sometimes breaking rules and the law) suddenly turn into bigoted racist when they hire coaches?

A color blind society that judges everyone by the content of their character and not the color of their skin has got to look past quotes and numbers games.

Have you been to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board meeting lately ??

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There is a simple, non-racist reason for there being so few black head coaches.

go to any college football game and look at the graduate assistant coaches on any football team’s sideline. a graduate assistant is the first step toward being a college head football coach, yet there are more female grad assistants in the NCAA than there are blacks.

until blacks are willing to put in the time at the ground floor and work their way up, the way white people do, they will never get many head coaching jobs.

if there were a long list of qualified blacks who were getting the shaft, lame articles such as this would provide names of these “overlooked” black coaching candidates. but these types of articles never do.

why? there simply aren’t any, so the black-loving crowd just keeps whining.

I thought I’d seen everything out of the Post Dispatch. But during a time of recession, intense debate on health care and other issues, this topic appears? Maybe it’s your opinion this is the most wonderful time of the year but for a lot of us, we could care less.

However, to answer your question, the reason there aren’t more black head coaches in college football is because they DON’T meet the MINIMUM requirements. One of them - having a Master’s degree or at least have hours toward an advanced degree. Truthfully, a lot of blacks don’t want to coach. They just want to be on field stars and that’s it.

Professional basketball is about to start, again with few white players.

What’s the point?

Success breeds success, most college teams want proven history from a coach they hire. Notre Dame Football hired a black and he failed, they fired him and hired Charlie Weis So.
If you’re looking for affirmative action in coaching field don’t hold your breath. The pros require that when interviewing for coaching jobs, that they the owners have to interview black candidates in their hiring process.
I think this question is not racial its eccominics 101.

Let’s make a deal….

The NCAA could implement a racial quota for coaches and at the same time, a racial quota for the players to better reflect the overall racial breakdown of our country…..

Fair enough?

I like the question you pose however your article lacks the stats. Even the article on The Root.Com lacks the stats. This article on the same topic by Gene Wojciechowski is much better and has a more complete picture. Check out http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=3695007&sportCat=ncf

I think obviously there needs to be more Black American coaches. However I don’t feel passing a law enforcing it would be a good way to go about equality (not that they are trying to do that, but I could see it happening.) I think raising our voices, being more outraged at the injustice, speaking out would be a better way to go about it. If we can put pressure on companies for all kinds of things then we should be able to pressure the college leagues to change their ways.

To be honest, only 4 out of 119 teams being led by a black coach doesn’t look right. Given all the old money and old men that make up the booster programs across the country maybe it shouldn’t be. It will change, just like basketball did. Maybe the NCAA needs to institute a “Rooney” rule (if there isn’t one already) like the NFL has - you must interview at least one minority for a head coaching position. Doesn’t say you have to hire them, but at least give them the chance to come in and show you what they’ve got. That seems fair to me.

I think there is some compelling evidence that there is some level of social engineering in American sports. It would be nice if Mrs. Buchanan could do a little research on this.

There are no white starting cornerbacks in the NFL out of 64 players who start at that position. In fact, there are no white cornerbacks in the entire league. There are zero starting white tailbacks. No white running back has run for over 1,000 yards in nearly a quarter of a century. Only about five percent of starting wide receivers and safeties are white.

Has this amazing and now permanent disparity in a sport that whites have always loved and played so well come about solely because of “black supremacy” in athleticism? The NFL was integrated racially in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s and there were plenty of whites then who played all defensive positions and who ran and caught the ball and who excelled at it. It is only since the late 1980s that certain positions in professional football have become for all intents and purposes black only.

Might there be other factors involved? For example, did you know that the 119 Division I-A major college football programs, with very, very few exceptions, simply refuse to recruit and develop white tailbacks and white receivers no matter how outstanding they are in high school? And that the media enforces this rigid segregation by using euphemisms and descriptions that demean white athletes?

Talented white athletes who want to play tailback, receiver or cornerback must go to a small college program or go the very difficult route of becoming a walk-on at one of the major programs. And since it is the Division I-A programs that supply almost all the players in the NFL, it is hardly surprising that the white running back and wide receiver has become almost extinct, as have whites playing defense in general.

The truth is that white football players, no matter how talented, are directed into a racial Caste System that limits them to being offensive linemen, kickers, quarterbacks (though more and more major college programs are recruiting blacks for that position), and the occasional defensive position, usually linebacker or defensive end.

Caste Football looks at the racial dynamics of football and of sports in general. We have no sacred cows we worship, no taboo subjects we won’t discuss. We respect the fact that blacks make good football players. But we believe that by looking at football and sports overall through an objective lens rather than simply accepting the propaganda slant of the media, it is clear and obvious that whites are just as good as if not better athletes than blacks.

To give just one example, even though whites are only 10 percent of the world’s population, they win over 90 percent of the medals at the Winter Olympics and over 70 percent of the medals at the Summer Olympics, including many medals in sprinting and jumping.