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Where are all the Black College Football Coaches?

The labor force in the field is approximately 50 percent African American.

Middle management is about 30 percent African American.

Of the one-step the last step, 20 percent are African American.

However, at the top, where apparel contracts, television shows, courtesy cars, and the influence of alumni and important, Life Exchange, Black college football coaches representing approximately three percent of the total amount of head coaches of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), which until 2008 was known as the NCAA division 1A.

A cynic might say that blacks are good enough to do the work in largely good enough for top level management, and even good enough to call plays and make important decisions in the game, but not enough to reap the greatest rewards and represent universities as the public face of major college programs.

Part of the difficult situation of Black college football coaches can be explained by the ethnic composition of the decision makers at the highest levels of college football. From January 2009, 92.5 percent of university presidents FBS, 87.5 percent of FBS athletic directors and 100 percent of FBS conference commissioners were white. Human Resources research indicates that decision makers tend to hire people who are like them, and clearly appears that Black football coaches university who are candidates for jobs as a head coach are not enough decision makers in the Caucasus. On the other hand, also appears to be lack of will between universities to re-hire coaches who have failed in their initial seasons as head coaches. Other than Tyrone Willingham, no Black college coach Football has lost his job has been rehired as head coach in the FBS level.

University at Buffalo athletic director Warde Manuel, who happens to being black and hired a black man, Turner Gill as coach of the Bulls, was asked about that to ESPN.com.

"If a white person not successful in a certain position does not mean that another White person would have no success, "said Manuel. He added:" I struggle with why to be honest. Why this happens, as long as you have? Why (Black) people who are coordinators of successful programs have not had the opportunity to be a head coach, while others with less praise and less documents, get these jobs? " "

Former Georgetown basketball coach head John Thompson offered an explanation. "I've always said that good White people are sometimes reluctant to break the mold, due to the pressures put on them," Thompson said. "They may feel a little freer to do right now that we have a black president."

Some of the explanation may lie the difference in graduation rates between white men and black men. According to the institution within Higher Ed, only 40 percent of those enrolled African American males graduate from four-year colleges within six years of enrollment, compared with about 60 percent of men white under the same criteria. It seems that the Black college football coaches can start with a real disadvantage when it comes to progress, not only for a disadvantage perceived in the eyes of decision makers. However, we can not overlook the fact that 19 of the 68 teams that participated in bowl games for the season 2008 graduated less than half of its African American football student-athletes, while only a graduate school less than half of white football student-athletes.

Time will eventually change the number of Black coaches college football, as it has since the day in 1966 when Bill Russell became the first head coach in any major U.S. sport when he took over the Boston Celtics Red Auerbach. Beyond time, pressure, agitation and personal responsibility are the ingredients needed to ensure change. The pressure on institutions to do the right thing by hiring African success American coordinator to head coach when vacancies occur, the turmoil in the media and through peaceful protest organized in where unskilled whites get some of this work, and personal responsibility to perform well enough to be fully qualified academically when there are vacancies, and mentor the next generation to break the chain of evil in African American higher education.

These ingredients are essential in the recipe to increase the chances of Black college football coaches ascend to high office.

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