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Black Head Coaches Research Paper

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When you’re watching a sports game do you ever wonder why the coaches are mostly white? Leagues like the NFL and NBA are trying to get their teams to hire coaches from minority groups, but some people say that race should not interfere with the process of hiring a coach. Sports teams should make an effort to hire their coaching and higher office positions from minority groups because it is mainly white male coaches, most of the players in the sports come from minority groups, and it would also prove that racial sports barriers don’t exist.
Sports teams should make an effort to hire or at least interview coaches or managers from minorities because this will prove that racial barriers don't exist anymore. 7 black head coaches were fired in 3 …show more content…

Although in some cases the white coaches might be a better choice some teams do not even try to interview the minority candidates. For example before 2003 NFL teams would not make an effort to hire minority coaches so a rule had to be put in place to force teams to interview minority coaches. In 2003 the Detroit lions were fined 200,000 dollars for failing to interview people from minorities for coaching and higher management jobs. We know the rule works because before it was created from 1921-2002 NFL teams only hired 7 head coaches but after 2003 when the rule was instituted NFL teams have hired 17 head coaches from minorities. The media focuses on the success of minority players for example the NFL media has been very desirous for black coaches to do well so they are giving them undeserved credit for their team's success. However this is not true because in 2006 the super bowl was played between the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts. The Bears coached by Lovie Smith and the Colts coached by Tony Dungy is the first time in NFL history where two black head coaches go head to head in the super

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