"The problem with hiring as it relates to race in the NFL is not the Rooney Rule. The problem is not that the Rooney Rule is ineffective. That would be like saying that the problem with cancer is that you can't fix it with an aspirin. That is not about the limitations of aspirin, that's about the problem with cancer; and the NFL has a cancer of racism when it comes to hiring people at these levels."
"The problem in this case is the white people who do or, more accurately, do not do some of this hiring. The issue there is them. The issue is the owners. It's all these people on top. They are the problem. I don't think that we could ever truly have any measure of solution on this until we are more honest about who the issue is."
The NFL had ten head-coach vacancies after the regular season and none were filled by Black coaches. The Rooney Rule, introduced in 2003, requires teams to interview minority candidates during head-coach searches. Critics argue that the rule's mechanics are not the root cause of the hiring outcomes; entrenched racism among owners and top decision-makers drives exclusion. The hiring shortfall is framed as an institutional problem requiring white decision-makers to change hiring practices and power structures. Calls for accountability emphasize confronting ownership-level bias and restructuring accountability to produce genuine diversity in NFL head-coach appointments.
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