the Washington Post just put sent out an article that has Troy Vincent and Jonathan Beane (who are two of the NFL’s highest-ranking Black executives) speaking about the double standard when it comes to Black coaching getting and keeping jobs
Here is a small snippet from the article, but I would recommend clicking the link below and reading the rest
As the article mentions this has long been issue that the NFL has yet to solve, even with the Rooney Rule, as most of the time we see teams interview someone who they really have no intention of actually hiring and just are doing it to satisfy the Rooney Rule.. You cant reward teams (the hiring team) for hiring a minority coach because that would be a slap in the face, as you would be essentially bribing teams to hire a minority coach.... Though it would also be difficult for the NFL to determine how serious they were when they interview someone to satisfy the Rooney Rule, without the NFL looking at their internal communications (which we know NFL owners would go nuclear over)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/11/black-nfl-coaches-firings-troy-vincent/
Here is a small snippet from the article, but I would recommend clicking the link below and reading the rest
A top NFL official said Tuesday “there is a double standard” in the league when it comes to retaining as well as hiring Black head coaches, a pointed public acknowledgment by the league that its teams have fallen short of the goal of increasing diversity within the senior coaching ranks.
Speaking one day after the Miami Dolphins fired Brian Flores as their head coach following a second straight winning season, Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, said the league should not “shy away from” its record of teams firing Black head coaches after winning seasons or very short tenures. Flores’s dismissal leaves the league with just two Black head coaches.
Vincent cited past cases with prominent Black coaches being let go, including Tony Dungy with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jim Caldwell with the Detroit Lions and Steve Wilks with the Arizona Cardinals. He added the example Tyrone Willingham losing his job at Notre Dame.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/11/black-nfl-coaches-firings-troy-vincent/“There is a double standard, and we’ve seen that,” Vincent said in a phone interview. “And you talk about the appetite for what’s acceptable. Let’s just go back to Tyrone Willingham at Notre Dame was fired after a winning season. Coach Dungy was let go in Tampa Bay after a winning season. So we have seen this. … Coach Wilks, just a few years prior, was let go after one year. And then the things that happened today.
“There is a double standard. I don’t think that that is something that we should shy away from. But that is all part of some of the things that we need to fix in the system. We want to hold everyone to why does one, let’s say, get the benefit of the doubt to be able to build or take bumps and bruises in this process of getting a franchise turned around when others are not afforded that latitude? … We see it at the collegiate level. And we’ve seen that in history at the [professional] level.”
As the article mentions this has long been issue that the NFL has yet to solve, even with the Rooney Rule, as most of the time we see teams interview someone who they really have no intention of actually hiring and just are doing it to satisfy the Rooney Rule.. You cant reward teams (the hiring team) for hiring a minority coach because that would be a slap in the face, as you would be essentially bribing teams to hire a minority coach.... Though it would also be difficult for the NFL to determine how serious they were when they interview someone to satisfy the Rooney Rule, without the NFL looking at their internal communications (which we know NFL owners would go nuclear over)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/11/black-nfl-coaches-firings-troy-vincent/