NFL voids stipulation in hasslett's contract

[MTK]

Originally Posted by firstdown

My point was that they don't have rules about drafting minority players and look how they have done as players. Very well. I just feel they put this rule in place to be politicaly correct but in the end the teams still hire who they want. I really don't have a problem with the rule I just don't think it makes a difference when teams are hiring a coach.

Maybe because 90% of the players are black to begin with? Comparing players to coaches just doesn't make much sense.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Maybe because 90% of the players are black to begin with? Comparing players to coaches just doesn't make much sense.

I tend to agree but an argument that I have heard is that since so many of the players are minorities then the coaching ranks should logically follow and haven't. So there must be some kind of institutional racism. So we can either compare players and coaches in this regard or not but we can't do it on one hand and not on the other.

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by DarkKnight

who is the best coach, how do you determine that, by who he worked for, what he's done in his past....that means, no-one knew who Dungy was until Tampa took him.....who you think the best guy is?????? thats determine on what?

EXACTLY the same way it is in.......any interviewing process.........anywhere.......

[GhettoDogAllStars]

Hmmm ... it seems there is some conflicting information.

In JLC's blog he provides a quote from the NFL briefing regarding the Rooney Rule:

"On the December 19-20 conference calls, the owners strongly agreed on the principle that any club seeking to hire a head coach will interview one or more minority applicants for the position. The one exception occurs when a club has made a prior contractual commitment to promote a member of its own staff and no additional interviewing takes place (e.g. Mike Martz and the St. Louis Rams in 2000)."

The Rooney Rule - Redskins Insider