Cal McNair
Ignoring the fact that their current head coach is actually black because he's only there on an interim basis and there's no shot he gets the head job, I struggle with the idea that if DeShawn is pushing for him and if they think he can have success away from Reid and Mahomes that Eric Bieniemy isn't the guy in Houston.
MB already brought him up, but if Tony Dungy announced his intention to return to the sideline next year, I have to imagine Cal is picking up the phone to talk to his agent.
I could be wrong, I don't know what's in people's hearts especially considering the illogical nature of racial animus.
The Rooney Rule is stupid too.
how do you know the best candidates arent' being interviewed? Who's being left out in the cold?
I don't think the NFL needs to meet a quota on skin color....that's absurd.
I used to think Leslie Frazier was getting blackballed, until he finally got his chance, and sucked.
Remember when the conventional wisdom was that Teddy Cottrell wasn't getting opportunities because he was black? It couldn't have possibly been that he freaking sucked.
Marvin Lewis got jobbed the year the Ravens D carried them to a title, but he got jobbed into being paid the highest paid coordinator in the league for a year before being hired by Cincy. Was that because of his race? Because of when he was available to interview given their playoff run? I have no idea. As far as I can recall-Herm wasn't even a coordinator when we hired him.
I think a large part of it was/is the symptom of the NFL's good old boys network with guys getting recycled as position coaches in perpetuity.
I'd be interested to see in terms of statistics how much the number of position coaches in the NFL has gone up in terms of minority representation with the idea being the higher that number goes in the coming seasons and the more experienced gained by this influx of coaching talent, the more you'll see attractive candidates and more black head coaches.
For whatever reason, there seems to be this obsession as well with offensive minded coaches who come from a background of being a quarterback coach. Like any other fad, once the league gets away from that you'll hopefully see more guys make the jump like Anthony Lynn did (from rb coach to o-coordinator to head coach in relatively short order).