The rule is a joke and a mockery of affirmative action. All these bs politcally correct actions the nfl makes are ridiculous, just a reminder its business

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“just a reminder its business”

Exactly !!!

It gets minority coaches practice in interviewing and gets their name out htere publicly so that owners and gms from other teams who may be hiring a coach in the future think about them as potential head coach candidates.

there it is, the reason why it is good. Not for immediate hires but future hires, changing the perception so that future minority coaches will be considered equally.

That said, Harbaugh will not save this franchise. Their upper management is a disaster, and I find it despicable that they would treat their current head coach in this manner, no matter how big an idiot he might be.

Harbaugh will go to Miami, get beat on by Belichick and the Pats regularly, and then he will depart Miami within the next three seasons having accomplished nothing. Bank on it.

Affirmative action is a mockery of logic and common sense.

Times have changed? Yes, in some respects. But the vitriol in many of the comments posted here–not to mention the national dialog overall–is proof that they haven’t changed enough. That’s not an endorsement of what’s come to be called “The Rooney Rule”–although I do tend to favor efforts to even the playing field, I’m not convinced this one is having the desired effect. It’s a simple statement of fact. Racism is still alive and well in America. We’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.

@help me …

That’s not the issue. Blacks make up approximately 65 percent of players in the National Football League but a significantly smaller percentage of coaches and executives. The goal is to ensure that qualified individuals aren’t overlooked because the first people who come to mind for coaching and executive positions are white.

As a Steeler fan, I couldn’t be more thrilled with Mike Tomlin and wouldn’t trade him for any coach in the league–including Bill Cowher. I respect Baltimore’s Ozzie Newsome as perhaps the best player personnel man in football. And I sure wish Gene Upshaw were still running the NFLPA. It would be ridiculous to assume they’re the only black guys with that kind of skill. The goal of the Rooney Rule is just to make sure other talented people of color get noticed, not to force owners into making hires they don’t want to make.

But when every team interviews the same black guy–Giants one-year DC Perry Fewell–prior to hiring someone else, you have to question whether the rule is having the hoped-for impact.

Percentage of NFL head coaches, 2010-11 season, that are African American: 21.9

The Rooney Rule has won.

Tomlin won a Super Bowl and Frazier was hired without any whites being interviewed. Does the league still think its own hiring processes are bigoted?

Plus where is the Rooney rule for RBs, DBs, WRs.
I haven;t seen a stink about there not being enough whites at those positions BUT we do need another 20 starting QBs who are black.

By that math, black are OVER REPRESENTED as head coaches.

Enough with the videos!!

90% of us can’t watch them at work. If you feel you have to post them atleast summarize with Text.

here’s an idea, maybe do your job at work.

P.S. – the video still you have of Ross there looks alot like Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. http://disneyvillains.wikia.com/wiki/Judge_Doom

This is suppose to be a rumor and news site. Whether or not a team complies with this silly rule is neither!

And the Rooney Rule is stupid. Owners don’t hire white coaches because there racist. They hire coaches based on pedigree. There are and have been plenty of black coaches in the NFL. Is the rule not going away until we have 16 black coaches?? :rolleyes:

Don’t give me that garbage about giving black coaches interview experience either – most of them won’t sit for sham interviews anyway. Most of the Rooney rule compliance interviews have been shams anyway, let’s be fair.

Based on his stats as an NFL QB, the Dolphins thought they were getting a person of color.

Coach Frazier, for example, benefited from his interview with the Broncos when they had a vacancy, which probably helped him in the process with the Vikings.

C’mon, man, what is the harm of giving minority coaching candidates a chance to at least go through the interview process?