Sports Illustrated: Black coaches are too dumb for the NFL, and that's racist
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Date: January 17th, 2019 11:51 AM Author: sooty personal credit line
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/01/15/nfl-new-head-coaches-diversity-rooney-rule
The NFL Head Coaching Fraternity Is Getting Less Diverse. Here’s Why
Of the eight newly hired or presumptive head coaches this year, one is African-American, which would leave just three black head coaches in an overwhelmingly African-American league. The recent fascination with young quarterback-pedigreed candidates hasn’t helped—and it points up a pipeline that funnels well-off suburban white kids onto the quarterback track, giving them a huge head start in the coaching profession.
By ROBERT KLEMKO January 15, 2019
Let’s start with some facts. The 2018 firings left just two of the NFL’s 32 teams with African-American head coaches, in a league in which the players are better than 70% African-American. This latest wave of hirings has done nothing to ameliorate that disparity; the league’s head coaching fraternity has gotten far less diverse. Of the eight newly hired or presumptive head coaches, one, Brian Flores, who’s in line for the job in Miami, is black. Two coaches are recycled—Bruce Arians in Tampa and Adam Gase with the Jets. In addition to Flores, first-timers include Vic Fangio (Denver), Freddie Kitchens (Cleveland), Kliff Kingsbury (Arizona), Matt LaFleur (Green Bay), and Zac Taylor, the presumed candidate in Cincinnati. In this year’s process, the ineffectiveness of the Rooney Rule—which requires that all teams interview at least one minority candidate before making their hiring choices—was laid bare once and for all.
But instead of focusing on who the newcomers are not, it may be more instructive to examine who they are.
In 2016, I wrote about that year’s rookie class of quarterbacks, a predominantly white group of young men who, through special talent and hard work, ascended to the 1% of the most difficult and important position in the game.
What made them who there were? Turns out they had a lot in common. They were mostly sons from two-parent homes, with strong parental advocates who guided their amateur careers with ample resources and a depth of knowledge about the challenges ahead. They were from affluent families, with few exceptions, and they carried themselves with confidence and a sense of responsibility unmistakable in successful quarterbacks. They were invested in themselves, and perhaps as important, they’d been invested in—by the elaborate framework of advocates and resources surrounding them. It was no mistake that they were NFL quarterbacks. There was perhaps one Cinderella story in the bunch; the rest were bred to be where they were.
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These new head coaches have a lot in common with our quarterbacks.
Take new Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury, 39, who played football for his father at New Braunfels High in Texas. His late mother retired from teaching, only to rejoin the high school so her schedule matched with her sons. Kliff played quarterback.
Throw in Browns coach Freddie Kitchens, 44, whose father, Freddie Kitchens, Sr., was a Gadsden, Ala., youth coach. Freddie Jr. played football for Freddie Sr. as a boy, and Senior had the means to ferry Junior to and from practice and games for numerous youth baseball teams, too. Freddie played quarterback.
Then there’s new Packers coach Matt LaFleur, 39, son of Denny and Kristi LaFleur. His father was a standout linebacker at Central Michigan, and later, linebackers coach at the school. Matt would get his coaching start as a graduate assistant there in 2004, years after the retirement of his father, who maintained close ties to the program. LaFleur, of course, played quarterback, as did his brother, now an assistant with the 49ers.
As for presumed Bengals head coach Zac Taylor, currently the Rams’ quarterbacks, coach, he played quarterback at Nebraska and got his start in coaching as an assistant under his father-in-law, Mike Sherman, at Texas A&M. Here’s my colleague, Andy Benoit, on the Taylor family:
The Taylors grew up in Norman, Okla., on a cul-de-sac in the type of neighborhood you see in a 1990s Americana family sitcom. More than 20 kids lived nearby. A neighbor had a big square yard, and the touch football games were epic. “Everyone in Norman knew our block,” Zac says. “There were five kids in our neighborhood who started at QB in high school. We had Division-I athletes from a number of sports available to play at any moment.”
The Taylors’ dad, Sherwood, played football for Barry Switzer at Oklahoma in the 1970s and coached briefly for the Sooners and Kansas State Wildcats in the early ’80s. “He was always the most physical when we played sports, not afraid to elbow an eighth grader,” Zac says. Besides Zac and Press, Sherwood and their mother, Julie, had two daughters. It was a close-knit family with strong traditional values.
The exception to this group, Brian Flores, is an all-too-rare example of a young, African-American coach leapfrogging more experienced candidates on the way to a top gig. He's been propelled not by quarterback expertise or pedigree upon entry to the NFL, but through a 15-year long alliance with Bill Belichick, the most successful head coach in NFL history and one of football history’s renowned defensive minds.
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To be clear: There’s nothing wrong with what the Kingsbury, LaFleur, Taylor and Kitchens families have accomplished.
Parents should strive to make lives better for their sons and daughters. The greatest and most successful American families are built on sacrifice and experience, and it’s no coincidence that the majority of successful NFL coaches got head starts from their dads.
But let’s not pretend this is a meritocracy. The journey of the most elite football coaches mostly mirrors that of the most elite quarterbacks. There’s an exceedingly narrow path to becoming an NFL head coach at a young age, as Kingsbury, Kitchens and LaFleur have done, and the first step on the drawbridge—the prerequisite—is privilege. That necessarily leaves a number of boys, white and black, on the outside looking in. At an immediate deficit are those from single-parent homes, those whose fathers aren’t coaches, those who aren’t surrounded by advocates and resources and examples of professional success in close proximity.
As a result, the game suffers. When the pool of candidates in any field is narrowed by pedigree, connections and nepotism, many of the best potential candidates are never seeing the light of day.
The statistics tell us the boys in this group are disproportionately children of color, and the history tells us that America’s legacy of chattel slavery, Jim Crow, the War on Drugs, and every other manifestation of systemic oppression of African-Americans in this country is a direct influence on the station of the typical black child in America.
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This is only part of the problem, of course. The argument can be made that white coaches may appeal more to predominantly white decision-makers, whether those decisions are conscious or unconscious, the result of intentional racial bias or bias unknown to the boss himself. An equally compelling argument could be made that black coaching candidates are held to higher standards than white candidates.
But the problem of under-representation among NFL head coaches, at its root, begins much earlier. It begins with socioeconomic disparities deeply rooted in this nation’s sad, exploitative history. It’s about our collective willingness to ignore that history, and to be satisfied with programs and policies meant to curb racial inequality, which in reality amount to nothing more than Band-Aids on gunshot wounds. It’s about the way black, football-loving boys grow up in comparison to the men they end up playing and working for in pro football.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4179709&forum_id=2#37607982) |
Date: January 17th, 2019 12:01 PM Author: zombie-like fighting foreskin reading party
>> Of the eight newly hired or presumptive head coaches this year, one is African-American, which would leave just three black head coaches in an overwhelmingly African-American league. <<
Why should the league be overwhelmingly African-American in the first place?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4179709&forum_id=2#37608030) |
Date: January 17th, 2019 12:08 PM Author: hilarious kitchen voyeur
"They were from affluent families...."
proceeds to talk about parents being public school teachers living in middle class neighborhoods
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4179709&forum_id=2#37608069) |
Date: January 17th, 2019 12:09 PM Author: startled mischievous university
QBs: get there through a the benefit of privilege
Literally every other player on offense and defense: get there through pure meritocracy
Oh wait, apparently kickers and punters are the result of privilege too, they've done stories on that as well
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4179709&forum_id=2#37608082) |
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Date: January 17th, 2019 12:17 PM Author: zombie-like fighting foreskin reading party
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I really hate when people attack a perceived downside of a system without acknowledging the upside. women as a group do this all the time.
in this case, blacks who go on and on about some perceived injustice about coaches being more white or QBs and kickers being more white NEVER address the benefit blacks get by being vastly overrepresented at other positions.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4179709&forum_id=2#37608133) |
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Date: January 17th, 2019 12:45 PM Author: Soul-stirring Multi-billionaire Sweet Tailpipe
The standard response is that the Wonderlic is racist, Dan Marino and Terry Bradshaw (who played 40 years ago in a much less complex NFL) were dumb too, and ultimately the scores don’t matter.
https://theshadowleague.com/nfl-draft-wonderlic-leaks-reek-of-racism-and-classism/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4179709&forum_id=2#37608347)
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Date: January 18th, 2019 1:28 AM Author: Soul-stirring Multi-billionaire Sweet Tailpipe
Aaron Rodgers: state your IQ before I engage with your further
https://washington.cbslocal.com/2016/10/26/aaron-rodgers-once-taunted-brett-favre-about-his-wonderlic-score/
And Rodgers comes along and he thinks he should be the first pick in the draft, and then he drops, and he’s really cocky, and he comes out of Cal, and the first time he sees Favre at the facility, he sees him, he’s eating and he goes, ‘Hey. Morning, Grandpa.’
“And Favre is like, ‘What the hell is this?’
“And then, you know, Rodgers, he was just a young, cocky kid. Like they’re at a meeting one day and Rodgers says, ‘Hey Brett, what was your Wonderlic score?’ And Favre goes, ‘I don’t know.’ And Rodgers goes, ‘Oh no, I do. It was a 22. I got a 35.’ His stuff didn’t go over well.”
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4179709&forum_id=2#37613057) |
Date: January 17th, 2019 12:41 PM Author: frum fortuitous meteor
Hmmmmnnnn…
2018 QB Wonderlic Scores
Quarterback
Josh Allen - 37
Josh Rosen - 29
Sam Darnold - 28
Baker Mayfield - 25
Lamar Jackson - 13
https://wonderlictestsample.com/josh-allen-wonderlic-test-score/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4179709&forum_id=2#37608315) |
Date: January 17th, 2019 1:56 PM Author: dashing impertinent milk
Some background on the author of this brilliant analysis
https://deadspin.com/si-writer-suspended-four-weeks-after-alleged-incident-w-1649827873
Klemko was arrested at his apartment last weekend and charged with misdemeanor battery and criminal trespass after allegedly fighting with a cab driver and briefly commandeering the driver’s vehicle
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4179709&forum_id=2#37608865)
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