Re: ESPN Poll

YosemiteSam wrote:
(paraphrased ESPN question)

Should colleges be forced to interview/hire a minority coach?

Those that responded gave a resonding 78% ... NO

John Saunders was dumbfounded in a subdued sort of way. He couldn't
grasp the No votes "since we just elected a black as president".

yeah, that reasoning makes no sense, for several reasons.

nevertheless, while i am totally against AA in its typical forms, i don't mind requiring interviews with minority candidates. in some occupations, and arguably college coaching is one of them, there is a good 'ol boy network in place, and if you aren't wired into it, you just never get considered, or else you are at a distinct disadvantage. and since that network formed back when blacks really were actively discriminated against, it tends to be a white-male network.

so requiring interviews with blacks is a way to breach those informal barriers, and crucially, it doesn't deny anyone else an opportunity: schools are still free to interview as many white candidates as they want, the black ones are in addition to, not in place of (which would be wrong).

of course any program that requires actually hiring black coaches would be wrong.


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