For First Time Since Rooney Rule Enacted, No Minority Head Coach Hired
Unless there's a late head coaching switch somewhere in the league (Oakland?), this season's hiring cycle will mark the first time in six years since the Rooney Rule was enacted that no minority head coach was hired league-wide.
The rule requires each NFL team with a head coaching vacancy to interview at least one minority candidate, and it had resulted in at least one minority coach being hired in each of the previous five hiring cycles.
However, the leaders of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, the group formed to promote minority hiring at all levels of the NFL, have said they nevertheless are satisfied with this hiring cycle because they believe that all four teams with openings complied fully with the rule.
By Mark Maske |
February 11, 2008; 2:00 PM ET
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Posted by: Fairfax | February 11, 2008 3:42 PM
Never mind - forgot about Meeks.
Posted by: Fairfax | February 11, 2008 3:51 PM
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Did the Redskins even interview a minority candidate?