Progressives Claim NFL, NCAA Hiring is Racist, Sexist

John Simmons | March 23, 2023
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The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mob has accused the NCAA and the NFL of not doing enough to make sure that female and minority candidates are not getting enough job opportunities. 

An ESPN article examined the 2022 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card published by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES). The report is 99 pages of complaining about what they see as too many white people in coaching, athletic director, and other “positions of power” in sports programs. TIDES gave the NCAA an overall grade of “C” on the report, with a slight decrease in overall quality as compared to the 2021 report.

Some of the troublesome areas according to TIDES’s findings were the following (these are not all of the data points, but enough to provide a glimpse at the type of findings they presented):

In 2021-22, Division I men's basketball Black student-athletes made up 52.4% of the total, compared to the 24.8% of Black head coaches (does that mean that the amount of black players dictates how many black coaches should be in D1?)

White people held 84.1%, 85.2% and 89.0% of the positions within men's sports in Divisions I, II, and III, respectively, whereas black head coaches held 9.9%, 6.7% and 6.3% of the men's head coaching positions in Divisions I, II, and III, respectively.

Women held 42.0% of head coaching positions at the Division I level for women's sports, while they held only 4.9% of the head coaching positions at the Division I level for men's sports (the latter of which shouldn't be a surprise).

An Andscape article sang a similar tune in which it examined NFL trends when hiring head coaches since the implementation of the Rooney Rule. 

The interactive article incorporated graphics comparing the win percentage, age, years of experience, and league rank of the unit coached in the previous year by each candidate while hiding the names of the coaches. The goal was for readers to choose on those metis who should have been hired, and then scroll down to see who was chosen in real life.

Despite the fact that such disparities might exist, the goal behind each of these  articles was to convince you that there’s racism and sexism preventing deserving candidates from getting jobs that white men have.

As Dr. Jeff O'Brien, the CEO of the Institute for Sport and Social Justice, said in regards to the NCAA findings:

"The abysmal percentages of women and people of color in head coach and athletic director roles provide us with the tip of the iceberg. The real story lies beneath the surface, in the darkness, where systemic racism and sexism thrive and ensure the status quo is maintained. But, bemoaning this dynamic or promising to do better in the future are not adequate. A true reckoning, with clear expectations and consequences, is required if we intend to manifest an equitable tomorrow."

"Systematic racism thriving in the darkness to maintain the status quo?" Critical race theory here we come!

Whether in the NFL or NCAA, having differing outcomes does not mean that either league is biased towards one people group or demographic when hiring people. Racism and sexism are not playing puppet masters in some game designed to make black people suffer, and threatening leagues with a “true reckoning” -- with consequences if it isn’t followed -- is unsettling to say the least.

The skin color or gender of people hired for “positions of power” doesn’t matter. It also doesn’t matter if one demographic has more “representation” than the other. Things like these only matter to people who subscribe to a worldview that allows you to intimidate others into providing a result for one group of people in the name of “fairness.”

That is racism, not the so-called hiring “problems” in the NCAA and NFL.

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