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Colleges Must Want To Lose...

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning that black college football coaches are increasing the pressure to hire more ... black college football coaches.

The Black Coaches and Administrators organization turned up the heat on colleges today in an effort to increase minority hiring in big-time football programs.

During a news conference, the group introduced an employment lawyer who will be available to provide free advice to job candidates, opening legal routes to fight the dearth of minority candidates chosen as head coaches.

And how dramatic is this ?dearth??

Only four minority candidates were hired as head coaches of college-football programs out of 31 searches in the 2007-8 hiring cycle, the coaches? group said today in its fifth annual report on hiring in college sports.

Truly shocking! The percentage of black coaches hired, 12.9%, was only marginally higher than the percentage of blacks in the U.S. population, 12%!

The black coaches claim to want only equal opportunity, i.e., ?transparancy? in the hiring process, but it?s clear that what they really want is ... more black college football coaches.

?In order for us to resolve this issue, we?re leaving nothing unturned,? said Floyd A. Keith, executive director of the coaches? group. ?I think that we?ve tried, and we?ve tried for five years to bring a transparency to searches. What we?re disappointed with is we?re not in the end zone and we?re not getting enough head coaches hired when we should.?

What the black coaches? complaint asks us to believe is that colleges that eagerly lower their standards in order to give preferential admissions to black students and hiring preferences to black faculty and that energetically recruit the best college athletes, a ?disproportionate? percentage of them black, refuse to hire the best qualified coaches because of racial bias. Presumably they care about excluding potentially winning black coaches more than they do about winning games.

If you believe that, you probably believe ... well, you're a typical believer in racial preferences.

Full post as published by Discriminations on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).