Some things are just wrong

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Pat McManamon

The NCAA has 120 FBS coaches (FBS is the new name for what used to be Division I-A … it stands for Football Bowl Subdivision, not football something else … though that something else applies to this topic … or anything to do with the NCAA for that matter). Seven of them are African-American. That's just wrong. And a good man and a good coach like Paul Winters continues to wait for a stinking chance.

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6 Responses to Some things are just wrong

  1. G-Mann says:
    July 28, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    And at least of three of them are MAC coaches…

    Turner Gill SUNY-Buffalo
    Ron English Eastern Michigan
    Mike Haywood Miami (OH)

  2. terje says:
    July 28, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    ncaa football is wrong on so many levels.

  3. Jason says:
    July 28, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    If Paul Winters was such a great coach, don't you think Akron would've hired him instead of the current mediocre regime?

  4. alan t. says:
    July 28, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    What's even more wrong is white guys using the word "African-American." Makes me want to wretch. They are black guys. Particularly when most of their relatives haven't seen the coast of Africa for 300 years. There are seven black coaches in the NCAA big league.

    Me? I am a white guy. Lily white. Whiter than the whitest albino. More pale than Casper the Ghost. Indeed, I am practically invisible. I am not an "Eastern European-American, a "Jewish-American," or any other kind of an American. I am a white guy. If I could scheme a defense, I'd be a white coach.

    Stop it, Pat. I implore you.

  5. Mike says:
    July 29, 2009 at 9:53 am

    Is Mr. Macmanamon planning on giving up his columnist job, given that there is also an underrepresention of African-Americans with columns in this country?

    You do realize that by advocating for more black coaches just because of their skin color, you are also advocating that some white coaches be fired just because of their skin color. Now that's progress.

  6. cnpeters says:
    July 29, 2009 at 10:11 am

    Eh, I'm with Pat. It's kinda ridiculous that African-Americans can comprise such a high percentage of the talent that drives football in america – and requires intimate knowledge of the sport, its personalities, and its strategies – and yet so few of them – with such a strong repository of knowledge built up over the years, end up in head coaching positions.

    However, I have a much bigger beef with the NCAA sucking the blood out of volunteers to drive their profit machine, but that's another issue