The NFL has been pretending it has a racial hiring crisis for years. Now, the league is practically begging teams to hire nonwhite coaches.
The NFL Advisory Council released a list of “diverse coaching candidates” in preparation for the beginning of the hiring process for teams that will have vacancies at the end of the season. All 11 coaches listed are certainly qualified, but the message from the league is clear: You should hire these coaches because they are black to help get our race-obsessed critics off of our backs.
NFL coaching staffs are incredibly diverse. The league received an A+ grade for the hiring of diverse assistant coaches. But race-obsessed media personalities and activists constantly break down the race of the league’s 32 head coaches, despite it being too small of a sample size to ascribe to any grand trend.
Just three years ago, eight of the league’s 32 head coaches (25%) were not white. The same was true in 2011, and it could be true at some point in the future. Many factors go into how teams decide who will coach them, so the racial makeup is bound to fluctuate. But the NFL is increasingly asking teams to make race an important factor in hiring.
That, however, doesn’t extend to minorities of all races. The 11 coaches on the NFL’s list are all black, and NFL teams have apparently internalized what the league is asking. Former NFL assistant coach Eugene Chung claimed that a team told him he was “not the right minority” during an interview for a coaching job earlier this year.
Maybe some of the coaches on the NFL’s “diversity” list will get hired this year. Maybe they won’t. It doesn’t actually matter either way, but the NFL can’t come out and say that without being raked over the coals by sports media and the woke bullies who would browbeat the league’s sponsors into condemning that basic color blindness. The NFL does not have a racial hiring crisis, but it also doesn’t have racial quotas. For the league’s critics, that’s the real problem.
