Where are all the QUALIFIED black HCs

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Where are all the QUALIFIED black HCs?

February 10, 2013 9:32 am

Never said the black community hated Douglass

This is what you said.

A man who created the phrase Uncle Tom, yet somehow that is looked down upon with hatred now in the black community.


Sounds to me like you said the black community hates Douglass.  Anyway....


   I said the phrase Uncle Tom is a negative phrase. Writing a novel is not the phrase. 


The novel is where the phrase comes from not from Douglass.


       Why would Bill Cosby be considered an Uncle Tom when he has does just as much for black white relations as he did?


I personally admire Bill Cosby but I understand why a lot of black people dislike him.  He makes great points at times but sometimes the way he goes about stating his opinions, it seems like he is out of touch with the black community.  He makes a lot of generalizations that can easily be seen as bashing the entire community.  But I agree, Cosby has done a lot for race relations and he should garner more respect that he gets lately.

Then my mistake, I was under the impression he came back and reformed, was booted out of black islam and lost the only protection he had.
      

It wasn't just about protection.  I am sure there were some white people who wanted to kill Malcolm but it was the Nation that killed him.  He died by the guns of people he called his family. 

If what you say he found on his mission is true then many middle easterners should go on that journey.
 

All Muslims are supposed to make that journey.  I'm sure it doesn't make everyone see the light like it did with Malcolm. 


And I will completely disagree. If a white guy and black are on the same level of experience in today's football, the black will either get that job or offered another job. Owner's want to make money, not appease some subconscience racism.


It's called subconscience for a reason bro.  They aren't realizing what they are doing. 

And I will contend that black coach's need to work their way up much along the lines of Jim Harbaugh. Jim Harbaugh's NFL credibility alone could've got him an offensive coordinator job but he wanted to be a HC so he went and got a job as a HC then worked his way up.


Jim actually did work his way up.  He was an assistant at WKU while he was still playing and he was a QB coach at Oakland before he went to San Diego. I think John and Jim were groomed to be coaches. 

If you start off as a position coach, you have to keep praying that the coached that hired you keeps his job so you can keep getting promoted instead of getting legitimate experience. How can you seriously say a coach who is not even a coordinator is more qualified than a guy who's previos job was a coordinator somewhere?


That's part of the point.  Black guys aren't really getting coordinator jobs either.  they are talking about extending the Rooney Rule to include coordinators because it has gotten so bad.  Before black men were being passed over for head coaching jobs.  If, and i am saying IF, you want to keep your good ole boys network alive but you have to interview black coordinators for jobs what's the best way to limit those qualified applicants?  Make sure there are less qualified applicants.  It's hard to believe it's just a coincidence that there are less and less black coordinators in the NFL.


   David Shaw was a hot name for NFL jobs but he chose to stay at Stanford, that takes the most qualified black HC off the market.


Not to take anything away from Shaw but he was an OC for like 4 years and has been a head coach for 2.  I don't know if I would call him the most qualified black candidate for an NFL coaching job.     
  
The media can't make an argument on one side of their mouth that blacks are being kept down because of retreads of white coaches yet the otherside complain there are not enough black retread coach's.


You know what, you're right.  The media can't make that argument about black retreads because it's hard to retread from a pool of 13 when 3 are current coaches, 2 (Herm Edwards and Tony Dungy) seem to be happy talking heads, 2 (Art Shell and Denny Green) are retired from coaching and 1 (Crennel) is just an awful head coach.  So essentially there are only 5 guys that could be retread: Mike Singletary (who I really don't know what to make of), Ray Rhodes (who will likely never be a head coach again), Lovie Smith (who should be a head coach again soon), Reheem Morris (who probably still needs a few years and a coordinator before he gets another chance but should be a coordinator NOW), and Jim Caldwell (who has certainly earned another shot). 

Especially when how many retread white coach's were hired for HC's this offseason? I can't list all of the coaching hires but Andy Reid comes to mind and a guy as successful as he has been is not a retread just another victim of the coach killer that is Michael Vick.


Reid was the only one this year. 


I'm going to say again directly to you, I'm done with this debate.  Nothing else to cover, I don't think.  I'll see you around the college boards also.        
  
tampabaybishop
SinceAug 28, 2006
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Where are all the QUALIFIED black HCs?

February 10, 2013 7:36 pm
I said the black community hates uncle tom, FD was great for the black community had he had anyone at all step up to his aide. Much like John Brown where the slaves let him down. Is FD not the definition of an uncle tom?


There was a novel written, exactly how is that starting a phrase? Especially considering 95% of black americans could not read.


Then how out of whack is islam? Everyone can make a journey except few come back "enlighten" yet others come back full of hate? 

And I'm telling you there is no subconscience involved in today's owners. There subconscience is about making the most money possible. Since liberals hate rich wealthy people, you have to realize greed and keeping power has nothing to do with black, white or any other color. 

I'm missing any point with the Jim Harbaugh connection. He wanted to be a HC so he took a job at a lesser school? How many black assistants have gone back to college to attempt gaining head man experience? WSU has tried in basketball and football yet were turned down. I do think it isn't right how skewed the numbers are in the NFL and college football in terms of coaching but it's hard to feel sympathy when coach's think they are too good for certain jobs. Watch the documentary on Sylvester Croom, he said no to I believe it was 10 jobs and even said no thanks to the MSU job until he was pressured into it.

I can see your point but it makes no sense, you would rather hire a guy with zero head man experience as opposed to a guy who has been nearly as successful as any head man?

I'm not saying the media, I just find huge hypocrisy is that argument. Black retreads=saintly, white retreads=racist. How is that an argument to be taken seriously? Wouldn't the black coach's situation would happen if "retread" black coach's would go take coordinator jobs and new black coach's get a chance and fill the pool with more retread possibilities instead of b*tching about how recently fired black coach's better get a HC job or it's racist?

Exactly, the problem with liberals. You can't engage in a real debate. Much along the lines of Obama. Once an engaging debate with opposing opinions you give up, at least you don't have the platform as him to cry and corrupt minds with how the otherside are horrible people. Much along the lines of making compelling arguments. You criticize me for my opinion on driving being a right but you say gay marriage is a right.
wazzufan31
SinceNov 10, 2006
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Where are all the QUALIFIED black HCs?

February 11, 2013 9:31 am
wazzu, I would never cut and run when a debate gets engaging with opposing opinions.  I've been in this debate from the start and I've probably made more posts than anyone else.  The debate is tired and nothing new is being brought up.  there is no reason to continue but if you just want to go back and forth and get no where, I'm unemployed for now, I have nothing better to do. 


I said the black community hates uncle tom, FD was great for the black community had he had anyone at all step up to his aide. Much like John Brown where the slaves let him down. Is FD not the definition of an uncle tom?


I don't really care if you or anyone else believes Frederick Douglass was a Tom.  His books shed a light on darkness, that's enough for me. 

There was a novel written, exactly how is that starting a phrase? Especially considering 95% of black americans could not read.

 Had the book Uncle Tom's Cabin not been written, the phrase Uncle Tom likely wouldn't exist.  I get the feeling that you're just arguing this to argue.  Let me see if this helps.  The term Bootylicious was from a song from Destiny's Child.  If they had never written that song, the likelihood of the word Bootylicious being in our dictionary is slim to none.  The phrase comes from the book, it only takes one black  person who can read who then would tell another person what the book is about and then they start calling people who suck up to the white man Uncle Toms for the phrase to become wide spread.  The same way phrases become wide spread today.  The phrase comes from the book.  Personally, I don't use the phrase.  I'm not going to down a black man for bettering himself and once he betters himself I would hope that he would want to help others better themselves but I don't see that as a trait that most successful people share.  If you're from the guetto and you're successful and you get out of the guetto more power to you. 


Then how out of whack is islam? Everyone can make a journey except few come back "enlighten" yet others come back full of hate?


I'm an agnostic.  I can't explain to you the mindset of any religious person, much less the radical Muslim. I will say though that it's probably not the pilgramage that holds the key to the radical mind vs. the enlightened mind but the environment.  Malcolm's background as a pimp and a product of the streets led to him falling in with radicals and that is what he knew of the religion until he found out that the religion was not what the Nation of Islam was really teaching.  Some people are far more weak minded than him and will just blindly follow where others are leading.  I don't know, bro, and I'll likely never know why some Muslims believe that fear, terror, and murder are what the Koran teaches. 


And I'm telling you there is no subconscience involved in today's owners. There subconscience is about making the most money possible. Since liberals hate rich wealthy people, you have to realize greed and keeping power has nothing to do with black, white or any other color.


How the eff do you know there is no subconscience involved?  that's just ridiculous. 


  How many black assistants have gone back to college to attempt gaining head man experience?


I have no idea and neither do you.  I'm sure if you look around college football there are a lot of assistant coaches that are black but head guys are upwards of 95% white.  95%!!!  You're not going to convince anyone that is's just because black players don't go back to college to coach. 

I do think it isn't right how skewed the numbers are in the NFL and college football in terms of coaching but it's hard to feel sympathy when coach's think they are too good for certain jobs.  Watch the documentary on Sylvester Croom, he said no to I believe it was 10 jobs and even said no thanks to the MSU job until he was pressured into it.


So how many other examples do you have?  Most star players will not want to go through working their way up the coaching ranks. Not just black players but all star players.  Players without big names would and do work their way up the ranks.  What schools did Croom turn down?  I mean the guy had been an OC in the NFL, I don't blame him for believing he deserved a better job than an NAIA school.  I can understand, growing up in the south, why he may not want to take a head coaching job in the south or be the first black head coach in the SEC. At the end of the day, you have no idea why a guy may turn down a job, if it's a feeling of wanting things handed to them or ego or just not feeling it's the right job for them. 

I'm not saying the media, I just find huge hypocrisy is that argument. Black retreads=saintly, white retreads=racist. How is that an argument to be taken seriously?


Anyone who is making that argument about black RETREADS needs to look further into it because there are barely any black head coaches to be retread.    

Wouldn't the black coach's situation would happen if "retread" black coach's would go take coordinator jobs and new black coach's get a chance and fill the pool with more retread possibilities instead of b*tching about how recently fired black coach's better get a HC job or it's racist?


Outside of Lovie Smith, who had almost a decade of pretty successful coaching on Chicago, which black coach wasn't willing to go back into the rank and file and work their way back up?  Raheem Morris did.  Jim Caldwell did.  Neither of them were even offered a coordinator job and went back to be position coaches.  Crennel did it last time he was fired so I'm sure he will again.  So who are these guys who are bitching?    


 You criticize me for my opinion on driving being a right but you say gay marriage is a right.


Are we really going back to driving?  Look, as we already covered, when I wanted to drive I had to get a permit, then I had to take a written test, then I had to take a road test and they could have denied me my license had I failed (which as embarrassing as it is I did twice before I passed) not to mention I have to have them renewed every so often.  To get married all I had to do was apply for a license and have the ceremony performed.  It was that simple for me to marry a woman but if I fell in love with a man I wouldn't have been able to do it at all.  I'm just not sure how anyone justifies that. 
tampabaybishop
SinceAug 28, 2006