The problem with this line of thought is how do you avoid quotas with this line of thinking?
How do you force owners to consider race when making one of the most important decisions any team can make.....HC?
It's one thing to insist on interviewing a certain cross section of races for an HC job (even that is very dicey). But do we now think selection must be on race by some sort of equation that decides on proportionality?
Look at the bind the Giants are in. They no doubt decided some time ago on Dabold. He's the hot guy this year if you want an offensive minded HC. They didn't want to risk him going elsewhere so they quickly made the transaction. So were they to risk losing him in order to uphold the Rooney Rule? Something that would have been just as phony? So all we're talking about here is precise timing. It's like throwing a flag because the ball got snapped 1 second late. The outcome was always going to be the same. Or are owners not allowed to identify their target early on and lock them up?
Look. It bothers me too that I see way too few Black faces as HCs. I don't know why that is. The assumption among many is that it is essentially most owners beginning with the premise that they really don't want a coach that isn't white. I find that hard to believe, but I can't rule it out.
If we go that route, where racial balance is the goal, do we then apply that also to players? Because if we do that, from the player side there's going to be one heck of a lot fewer Black players on teams. This is an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole we're heading for.
Ideas and hopes are nice; but implementing them is a whole other animal.
That's why I say that while Flores probably sees the same thing we all do (just by body count), I don't think a lawsuit is the answer at all. Because if a judge is going to determine that they will develop a formula for hiring that has race as a MUST consideration (how else could a judge decide if they agree with Flores), then we have a judge making hiring decisions for the NFL.
Harvard is about to state their cased before the Supreme Court that race based admissions is OK. They will very likely lose (according to many court watchers), because such a calculation cannot be anything but racial preference, which is racial discrimination to all but the preferred group.
It is a BAD mindset that will bring nothing but strife. It will solve nothing.
