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I am African American and I think the Rooney Rule is a joke. We have had more than our share of successful minority coaches. If someone is qualified, hire them. I think it is an insult to the OCs and DCs that get flown around the country to interview for jobs they are never going to get.

by making race an issue…

Genius

I like the Rooney Rule.

The problem is we need more Qualified minority Head Coaches.

They aren’t given the same opportunities to succeed as everyone else.

A owner shouldn’t be made to hire a Head Coach based on the color of their skin. A owner should be made to a hire a minority Head Coach based on their qualifications.

Train up better minority coaches and you won’t even have to use the Rooney Rule. You will want to hire a Minority Head Coach.

The FBS subdivision has more then a lack of minority coaches and not only that once they get fired they RARELY get hired again! They work as coordinators for top teams and the only opportunities they get are bottom of the barrel programs who fans/AD know will take more then 2 years to fix! They’re basically a stop gap b4 a more lucrative coach is hired. They never get opportunities at prime jobs like the SEC or Big12! If that is not a problem to you people then you are more blind to the truth then you think!

College football needs to fix their act!

The public is bothered by it because they hear about so many teams having to use the Rooney Rule because they weren’t going to interview a minority candidate.

No one sees the correlation?

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So how exactly is that going to solve the problem of hiring more minorities HC’s? People are evoking the Rooney Rule because they aren’t going to interview a minority anyway. (i.e. “forced to…”)

You take it away and they’re not obligated to even consider a minority candidate. So there are less interviews for minorities and less job opportunities.

The rule needs to be fixed not removed.

im pretty sure that the ppl calling for the abolishment of the rule is not a minority themselves

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Owners are FORCED to interview people based on skin color. You’re right, I’m not a minority, but I do have 20/20 vision, not to mention a lot of self-respect. I wouldn’t dare sit in on a job interview if I knew it was nothing but obligatory, because I’d find it to be terribly embarrassing and insulting, not to mention a waste of time for all involved. Explain to me how skin color should factor into my line of thinking.

Good point, now couple your concern with the employer’s animosity over being insulted as a suspected racist that does not have a moral or ethical compass to figure out how to make the right football decision, despite being the owner of probably a billion dollar company and more well versed on the topic of diversity in the workplace that just about anybody else.

No wonder these minorities can’t get jobs, the NFL is representing them with insulting, offensive, and weak scare tactics.

Part of the lack of minorities is that teams are subconsciously (perhaps intentionally for some but I want to assume a positive benefit of the doubt) playing tit-for-tat to penalize the minorities.

If the rule never existed, then I would bet money that there would be more minorities today.

That doesn’t mean you can’t create a rule to help, but this one does not help; it’s making things worse.

Say … you may be on to something. Let’s run Goodell for Congress. He can’t possibly do anymore damage than the people already there, and it would get him out of our hair. Congress … yeah, that’s the ticket!

“We both know you dont have a chance to get this job, but since this is the rule…”

If a coach is worthy of getting a job, he’ll get the job. Forcing teams to interview people who they dont want to hire, for whatever reasons, is patently stupid.