Genuine Questions About NFL Hiring Practices
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Posted Feb 2, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC
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The NFL is more like a big corporation than the casual viewer understands. So much has to do with connections, with prior relationships. I'm not sure why this wouldn't be a benefit to players since they played with the coaches that are the decision-makers as to who is on a staff and who isn't, but it obviously bears out that HCs hire people that they know and are comfortable with (unless there are GM or owner mandates restricting their hiring).
No disagreement here, but a Houston paper recently looked into this and found that connections were more important for minority coaches than they were for white coaches--i.e. GMs and owners may be more willing to hire someone with whom they aren't personally connected if they're white. It was posted here in the last 24 hours
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That is awesome information! Do you have a link to the research?
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I think people are also not considering something obvious; a majority of teams are just bad at hiring the right guy.
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75% of high school football players as of 2006 were white. A lot of those guys were probably not good at playing football. But you don’t have to be a great player to be a good coach. “Those who can’t do teach,” after all. So I think comparing the % of NFL players to % of coaches isn’t the best notion.
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Racism exist in the NFL this is not a suprise, its definitely a who you know league as well but a old 70 yr old white dude thinking a black man cant lead his franchise wouldnt surprise me.
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Most coaches played at least college ball. Many played professionally for some duration (like Dan Campbell, or Doug Pederson, or Jason Garrett). Very few NFL coaches were only coaches and never played at all.
Edit to add: it's not as if decision makers in NFL organizations are necessarily saying to themselves or others that they hate black people or whatever overt racism one thinks of when they think about discrimination. It's usually more subtle about culture fit or strategy or something that's coded language.
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It's usually 'jobs for the boys', but under the assumption they are highly qualified and do good work. Kubiaks are decent NFL coaches but you can find better.