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NFL still facing tough questions on minority hiring


Moving on up: The Rooney rule and minority hiring in the NFL

Detecting and quantifying racial discrimination in the labor market is difficult. The sports industry offers a wealth of data and specific hiring practices ...

Race vs. Merit: the Controversial Hiring Strategies of the NFL

“The league will require clubs to interview at least two external minority candidates for head coaching openings and at least one minority ...

NFL owners to selves: We still stink at hiring minority coaches

In the first nine years after the league adopted the Rooney Rule requiring teams to interview a diverse list of candidates, minority coaches ...

The NFL Accused of Discriminatory Hiring Practices

The National Football League (NFL) is in the hot seat again. This time, players and coaches are accusing the league of racial discrimination in ...

Black NFL Coaches Lament Hiring Policies That Fall Short

Veteran NFL coach Anthony Lynn appreciates the league policy that requires teams to interview minority candidates for their top jobs.

How hot-shot NFL head coaching candidates go cold - USA Today

The more interviews an NFL coach goes on without being hired, the more questions are raised. The issue makes some minority candidates more ...

Brian Flores' lawsuit reflects widespread discontent among Black ...

Brian Flores' lawsuit reflects widespread discontent among Black coaches over hiring practices around the league, Jim Trotter reports.

A 5-Part Plan To Fix The NFL's Coaching Diversity Problem

It's more likely that there is something systemic within the NFL that results in the whiteness of the coaching hires. (Saying the issues are ...

Twenty Years of the Application of Rooney Rule and Diversity ...

While there is evidence of positive change in the hiring procedures in the hiring of minority coaches and staff in the NFL, many still believe that regardless ...

The failure of “soft” affirmative action - American Economic Association

Roughly 70 percent of the league's players were Black, and yet only three of 32 teams in 2003 had head coaches of color. Consequently, the NFL ...

NFL hiring cycle shows minority coaching candidates are still being ...

And while NFL teams are required to interview at least one minority candidate for openings at head coach, coordinators and executive positions, ...

TACKLING UNCONSCIOUS BIAS IN HIRING PRACTICES

Designated the “Rooney Rule,” the policy man- dates that every NFL team interview at least one minority candidate upon the vacancy of a head coaching position ...

Coaching Diversity: The Rooney Rule, Its Application and Ideas for ...

unconscious bias still exists in the NFL, making it difficult for African-American coaching ... 25 Gary Mihoces, NFL Minority Hiring, USA TODAY, FEB. 3 ...

Rooney Rule - Wikipedia

The Rooney Rule is a National Football League policy that requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior ...

Grappling with lack of diversity among NFL coaches, GMs

Judy Battista, Jeffri Chadiha, Michael Silver and Jim Trotter explore the lack of diversity among the NFL's head coaches and GMs -- and ...

How does the NFL Rooney Rule work when a team wants to hire a ...

The Rooney Rule says that you have to have at least one minority candidate interview for a head coaching position or senior football position ( ...

2019 NFL Black Monday and the Future of the Rooney Rule

The Rooney Rule is the basis for integration of diversity in the NFL. Requires interviewing minority candidates before naming their hires.

The Effectiveness of the NFL's Rooney Rule

... minority hiring and equality, the NFL is still behind, in terms of ... from zero to one, it is difficult to justify an actual improvement because the ratio of ...

NFL tweaks Rooney Rule; requires teams to hire a female or ...

The NFL is taking steps to add diversity to its hiring practices by tweaking the Rooney Rule. Previously the Rooney Rule is aimed to aid in ...

How does the lack of Black head coaches in the NFL align ... - Quora

The Rooney Rule was never a mandate to have a certain number or percentage of head coaching positions occupied by minorities, it is in place to ...