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Leadership positions at the top competitive level of college football are largely held by white men, even though a majority of the athletes they supervise are not white, according to a study released today by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. The study found that, in the 2009 season, there are nine minority head coaches at colleges in the Football Bowl Subdivision, commonly known as Division I-A. Seven of those men are African-American, one is Hispanic, and one is Asian-American. By contrast, the study found that 50.4 percent of Division I-A athletes are African-American, 2.1 percent are Hispanic, and 2.3 percent are Asian-American.

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1. lpapp - November 17, 2009 at 11:06 am

surprise, surprise!

2. ald8m - November 17, 2009 at 11:33 am

This is a news flash? C'mon. Old news.

3. 11232247 - November 17, 2009 at 03:21 pm

This is the one area in academia where affirmative action is not tolerated. Division I athletic directors as well as football and mens basketball coaches who do not win, do not remain employed for very long.

Anywhere else, however, it is possible to carry the dead-weight as long as they do not block the door exits or begin to smell.

4. mark900 - November 17, 2009 at 04:29 pm

This is a joke, right?

5. 11294136 - November 17, 2009 at 05:00 pm

Duh

6. cwinton - November 17, 2009 at 05:57 pm

Let's see, to be a head coach you must be willing to:
1. deal with unrelenting pressure from your administration to win
2. make nice with monied alumnae who think they are empowered to tell you how to do your job
3. demean yourself every recruiting season trying to wheedle spoiled high school jocks who are barely literate to sign a letter of intent for your program
4. constantly worry about running afoul of NCAA rules
5. live with the ethical dilemma of having supporters doing things in your name you wouldn't do yourself
6. find yourself having to defend behaviors by your athletic charges that are basically indefensible
7. constantly look over your shoulder to see if you're still going to have a job next year.

There should be more minorities in these positions, but anyone interested who also has a conscious might well consider the personal costs.

7. 11272784 - November 17, 2009 at 06:27 pm

This is beyond obvious. More than any other job at the university, equal opportunity and diversity have nothing to do with football - networking and contacts are what matter. Most of the coaches with networks and contacts are white guys. This will probably only change slowly, as the way you build contacts and a network is to coach - so we need to see minority assistant coaches and coordinators moving up to enter those networks.

8. 11164595 - November 18, 2009 at 08:06 am

...and this is news???

9. realangel21 - November 18, 2009 at 10:44 pm

yeah....and so are those who sit on the highest plains like, the chairmen and CEO at Enron, the securities and exchange commissions (SEC), the FDIC, and so on...all of which have been investigated and some, are now doing some time for money laudering, insider trading, and number of other white collar crimes. Whites have always been at the top "doing things" making decisions, hiding money, holding back, funding things from country clubs, to elite Ivy leagues schools, and other major infractions. My point, if being at the top means stealing, lying and cheating, maybe whites believe they're better at it than anyone else.

10. realangel21 - November 18, 2009 at 11:17 pm

This is a major subject amoung minority college student athletes, and I will say that this plays on minority kids pyche as not being good enough. The kids are asking of whites, "what are you trying to say" as a historian, many whites believe minorties, particularly african americans, do not have the powess in business to hold major positions, lack the education, influence, and experience.