Thursday, June 02, 2005

What Does It Mean?

I'm not sure what this means. Should white coaches be hiring more black assistants? Should black coaches be hiring fewer? Vice versa? Since most of Div. I college basketball is black, should most coaches be black? Do good players make good coaches?

HOUSTON (AP) -- White head coaches are less likely than their black counterparts to hire black coaches as assistants, limiting black coaches' careers in schools with Division I basketball, a study released Tuesday suggests.

Texas A&M University's Laboratory for Diversity in Sport surveyed 191 Division I men's basketball programs and found that blacks make up 30 percent of assistants on the staffs of white head coaches and 45 percent of assistants to black head coaches.

"We have a long way to go before we can say there is fairness in some college hiring practices,'' said study author George Cunningham.

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