Number of Black Coaches Down

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Days after the election of the country's first black president, a study shows the number of African American coaches in major college football is the lowest in 15 years.
With the dismissals of Ty Willingham at Washington and Ron Prince at Kansas State, the number of black head coaches in the 119-school division I-A was reduced to four.
In 1997, there were eight black head coaches, the most in history. In 1993, there were only three.
The report by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida polled every major college on the ethnicity of its coaches, athletic directors, presidents, faculty, student athletes and NCAA faculty representatives.
"While the percentages are slightly better, the general picture is still one of white men running college sport," said Richard Lapchick, the report's co-author.
Lapchick has asked the NCAA to adopt a rule to mandate that minorities be interviewed for head coaching jobs. . . .


This is an article explaining how the number of black head coaches in major college football has gone from 8 black head coaches in 1998 and how that number has been cut in half. The executive director of the Black Coaches and Administrators Floyd Keith has asked why there are so few black head coaches while the number of black athletes has risen to 54% of the players in major college football. Keith believes the reason why the number of black head coaches is because most black coordinators leave to go coach in the NFL. Others on the board think that there are so few black coaches is because so few are even given interviews for the head coaching jobs.