THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 2013
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"That is not what the Rooney Rule is supposed to be, (that) you make up your mind and then interview a candidate for it anyways just to satisfy the rule."
Tony Dungy Foxsports.com
OF THE DAY
Fritz Pollard coached the Akron Pros in the 1920s, but it wasn't until Tom Flores in 1979 that another minority coached an NFL team.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: The rule was named after Dan Rooney, owner of the
history of giving African Americans opportunities to serve in leadership roles. (Hint: the team hired a black coach after interviewing a Hispanic coach, Ri Rivera, for the job as well.
A: Pittsburgh Steelers
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THE MORNING BREW NFL focuses on minority representation
Last Sunday's Super Bowl marked both the end of the football season and the beginning of tireless draft talk from ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay. From early February to mid-April, these experts will fill hours of air time analyzing every single draft prospect in this year's class ad nauseam. Teams won't even report to training camp until July, so long story short, the NFL offseason can (and will) become a little dry to its fans with so much talk and so little actual football.
This year, however, a new topic will find its way onto talk shows and into newspaper clippings: minority representation in NFL coaching and managerial positions.
"Black Monday," the day after the NFLs final regular season game, is always replete with firings and subsequent hirings for coaching and managerial positions. For some, it is a day that calls for celebration; for others, it is a day of disappointment and reflection. Despite its name, this day has always had a particularly "white" undertone.
According to the 2012 Racial and Gender Report Card: National Football League report from tidesport.org, in 2011, 81 percent of NFL head coaches were white (16 percent black); 67 percent of assistant coaches were white (32 percent black); 100 percent of CEOs were white; and 81 percent of general managers were white (19 percent black), while 31 percent of NFL players were white and 67 percent were black. Based on these statistics, if you are black and don't run a 4.5 forty or bench 400 pounds, you probably won't hear your
phone ringing, no matter how much football you may know.
According to the same tidesport.org report, half of the 12 teams in the 2011-2012 playoffs had either a black head coach or general manager: two head coaches and four general managers. Are they "genetically" privy to success as coaches? No, but it just goes to show that they have been successful in their own right.
The Rooney Rule, established in 2003, requires that NFL teams interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operations jobs. It was established to ensure that minority coaches were at the very least considered for high-level coaching positions. Several critics have found loopholes in this rule though.
Herm Edwards, a former player and former head coach of the New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, said in an interview with Yahoo: "I am not saying that you have to hire a minority candidate. I am saying you can't be blinded. It can't be. 'Who is the guy to interview to get this out of the
way?"
The last black head coach hired outright, other than from internal promotions, was Pittsburgh's Mike Tomlin in 2007.
Should a coach be hired based on skin color and not on merit? No. Just like an undersized white tailback should not take the job from a more deserving black player. That would be injurious to the integrity of the game, where the best players play and the best coaches coach.
Equality of opportunity is a little different than equality of outcome. Equality of opportunity should be enforced, but in that same vein, equality of outcome should not be required, either.
Edited by Allison Hammond
This week in athletics
Monday
Men's basketball
Kansas State
8 p.m.
Lawrence
Tuesday
No events scheduled
Wednesday
Women's Basketball
TCU
7 p.m.
Fort Worth, Texas
Thursday
Friday
Tennis
Charleston Southern
2 p.m.
Charleston, S.C.
No events scheduled
Baseball
Nevada
2 p.m.
Mesa, Arizona
Softball
Indiana State
5 p.m.
Auburn, Alabama
Softball
Tennessee Chattanooga
8 p.m.
Nahurn Alabama
Saturday
Tennis
College of Charleston
10 a.m.
Charleston, S.C.
Softball
Auburn
12:30 p.m.
Auburn, Alabama
Women's Golf FSU Invitational All Day Tallahassee, Florida
Baseball
Nevada
2 p.m.
Mesa, Arizona
Tallahassee, Florida
Men's Basketball
Winn's Basketball
Texas
8 p.m.
Lawrence, Kansas
Sunday
Softball
Bryant University
9 a.m.
Auburn, Alabama
Women's Basketball
Oklahoma
1:30 p.m.
Lawrence, Kansas
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Women's Golf
FSU Invitational
All Day
Tallahassee, Florida
Baseball
Nevada
2:00 p.m.
Mesa, Arizona
Hoosiers redeem last defeat with victory over Ohio State
There was no questioning their ability Sunday
Victor Oladipo scored a career-high 26 points.
Cody Zeller added 24 and Christian Watford 20
to lead No. 1 Indiana back from a demoralizing
loss to a huge road win in beating No. 10 Ohio
State 81-68 on Sunday.
Tallahassee, Florida
Boy, did they. The Hoosiers dominated the second half while making some history and staying in the thick of the Big Ten race.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — After a stunning loss,
the Indiana Hoosiers were on a mission to reafirm
just how good they were.
"It it was putting teams away, playing to win and not just playing for the time to run out," Zeller said of the lessons learned from an upset loss at Illinois on Thursday. "So, we made that adjustment pretty well."
"We knew we let one get away from us," Watford said. "At that point you just have to move on to the next one."
Women's Golf
FSU Invitational
All Day
Tallahassee, Florida
The Hoosiers were coming off an epic collapse
Less than three days later, they more than rebounded with a signature win in hostile territory.
that might have caused the undoing of many teams. The Illini went on a 13-2 run to close the game, with Indiana turning the ball over late and then allowing an uncontested layup at the buzzer of a 74-72 shocker.
The victory was Indiana's first against a Top-10 conference opponent in more than 20 years since a win in 1993 at Iowa. It was also the Hoosiers' first win against any team in the top 10 on the road since beating Notre Dame in 2000.
"From the very beginning after we lost the other night, the biggest thing for our team was we were not going to spend a lot of our time worrying about bouncing back," coach Tom Crean said. "I'm proud of the way these guys responded from a very tough loss."
Indiana, now 3-0 against Top-10 teams this year, stayed in lock step with the leaders in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers are now tied with Michigan State (9-2) in the Big Ten standings. Michigan and Wisconsin are next at 8-3, followed by Ohio State at 7-4.
The Hoosiers — mostly their trumvirate of Oladipo, Zeller and Wattord — always seemed come up with a big play when most needed.
"Today we got a lot of really good basketball from Victor Oladipo, Cody Zeller and Christian Watford," Crean said. "(They) played as well as a triangle — three guys — that you could get. And it was on both ends of the floor."
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