19 Jan
2009

College football has a problem, according to ESPN today. The problem is that the black coaches in the league don’t win. The reason for this, though, is that there are only a few out of 120 programs that even have African-American head coaches. And where they are, they aren’t at good schools. They are stuck at mid-level schools, like Buffalo and New Mexico State, which aren’t considered to be heavy-hitters in the leagues. So you have coaches stuck into bad coaching gigs and only one of them is in a BCS contending position, the coach at Miami. So it’s no wonder that these coaches aren’t considered the best when they don’t even get a chance. Is there some sort of bias going on? Or is this just happenstance?