(09-07-2019 09:15 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(09-07-2019 09:07 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(09-07-2019 09:00 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(09-07-2019 08:43 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Watching the game tonite:

Texas Longhorns:

Head Coach -- white
OC (2 of them) --- white

DC (2 of them) --- white

total full position coaches -- 14
total blacks -- 2

total players on roster -- 115
total white players -- 41

must be racism in the selection of coaches

LSU

head coach -- white (well, maybe neanderthal if you have ever heard him speak)

OC -- white
DC -- white

total full position coaches -- 8
total blacks -- 3

total players on roster -- 112
total white players -- 29

must be racism in the selection of coaches

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93 has stumbled onto an industry wide issue it looks like.

https://www.theringer.com/nfl-preview/20...-forgotten

"A 2016 Georgetown University research paper explained how leaders of organizations remain predominantly white despite efforts to increase racial representation in leadership positions. To anchor their assertions, researchers analyzed more than 1,200 NFL coaches at all levels from 1985 to 2012. They found that white assistant coaches were promoted at higher rates and made up over 70 percent of the hiring pool. There was “clear evidence of a racial disparity in promotion prospects for NFL assistant coaches that have persisted for over two decades despite a high-profile intervention designed to advance the candidacies of minority candidates,” the researchers wrote. They identified racial bias in lower-level coaching positions, such as receivers or defensive backs, and found that coaches of color are often hired into positions with inferior promotion prospects. Black and white coaches overseeing the same position don’t advance equally, either. Black coaches, the study found, are 114 percent less likely to become coordinators than their white counterparts."

1. How would you correct this?

Go back and eliminate decades/centuries of ingrained racism so we don't see the lingering effects in 2019? Beyond that who knows?

They say that the first step is admitting there's a problem, though...

Quote:2. Is this why NFL players are kneeling?

I don't believe that I've heard this put forth as a reason.

1. Time machine? We could fix a lot of problems with that. Send an assassin to Germany in 1933....

2. You brought this up as a part of the kneeling discussion. Check back a few pages to your first mention of the NFL owners being white. I never could figure out the connection.