Case Study: Addressing Racial Bias in NFL Coaching Appointments

This case study examines the underrepresentation of minority coaches in the NFL, exploring the historical context, structural barriers, and potential solutions to address racial bias in hiring practices. The case study analyzes a proposal by lawyers Johnnie Cochran and Cyrus Mehri, which suggests incentivizing the hiring of minority coaches through draft choices. The analysis finds this proposal insufficient and suggests alternative strategies, including mandatory interviews for minority candidates and penalties for non-compliance. It references studies and reports highlighting the performance of black coaches and recommendations from the Committee on Workplace Diversity. The study emphasizes the need for systemic changes to ensure equal opportunities and fair practices within the NFL. The document also explores the possibility of racial discrimination in the dismissal and retention of college football coaches by the university administration.

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Case study 1
Solution 1) In 1920, national football league was founded and has 32 franchise located in the
major cities around the world. League is not merely sports it's a business enterprises to earn the
lump sum profit. There is accusation on an owner of been racial prejudice, which resulted in
lower percentage of minority coaches and administration.
To rectify the problem lawyers Johnnie Cochran and Cyrus Mehri has proposed a plan to
increase the number of the minority in NFL. Thus, they make draft choices represent the NFL's
essential currency; the proposal depicts that for responsible management, those who hire
minority coaches will receive extra rewards and other will lose some if they decide to refrain
from hiring minority coaches (Kovach, Kenneth A). No, this draft plan will not work in case the
minority coaches, as showed in many cases minority coaches believe that the hiring process are
biased and there are discrepancies in that. There are fewer chances for minority coaches to be a
head coaching position and there is always favoritism towards non-minority coaches. It was also
perceived by most collegiate that minority coaches lack the necessary experience and skills to
serve in leadership
There are various explanations for the lack of minority coaches in sports as a whole. It is
structural barriers and career mobility patterns which reduce the participation of minority
coaches in NFL. Structure barriers include. The university conference and from where its belong
whether it was a private institution or public institution and its also depends on the empirical
cases of the university all the success and failure result critically examined by the conference
members which influence their decision. Studies show till 2000, there had never been a black
head coach in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In the starting season of Mississippi state
university in 2004, the first minor head football coach was hired named, Sylvester Croom.
Other explored the possibility of racial discrimination in the dismissal and retention of college
football coaches by the university administration. Minority coaches stay for the smaller number
of time, and there are chances that the lack of minority head coaches is due to unfair dismissal
and retention towards black coaches. Data on 81 institutions over 11 year period that contains the
coach's race, variables on cumulative winning records, annual on-the-field improvement, pre and
post season game participation and black coach show a dismissal probability that is 9.6% below
that of white coaches. Thus, studies show there is possible discrimination at college level shown
through the disproportionate minority and nonminority coaches.
Solution 2) If I have a chance a chance to divert the plan to divert the plan I will surely do
making a draft choices represent the NFL’s essential currency, as a proposal for responsible
management, those who hire minority coaches will receive extra rewards, and other will lose
some if they decide to refrain from hiring minority coaches will not be successful plan to
increase the number of minor coaches in NFL. For the successful plan, there should be
obligations for owners to adopt the given recommendation. The committee can recommend
binding on all the NFL teams for conducting interviews for minority coaches and if owners were
failing to interview a minority candidate before filling a head coach vacancy that is the violation
of the rule would be subject to penalties at the NFL Commissioner's discretion.

Case study 2
There should be variation in structural and career mobility patterns as private institutions are
more discriminating in choosing the non-minor coaches. There shouldn't be discrimination in
choosing practices of hiring head coaches in NFL. The advantage of above plan, if there is a
penalty on disproportion ratio of minor and non-minor head coaches in NFL, owner have to pay
penalities, which make compulsory for them to gave equal opportunity to minor head coaches.
There is a strong influence for changing the hiring practices of NFL. According to the labor
economist, repots on NFL's head coaching hiring practices named black coaches in the national
football league; superior performance and inferior performance". This report thoroughly
analyzed the NFL's hiring and firing practices over the previous fifteen seasons before 2002 and
data were way more opposite what it was expected, the report shows black coaches average 1.1
more wins per year than white coaches. Black coaches led their teams to the payoffs more
frequently than white coaches that are 67% of the time for black coaches while 39% for the
white coaches, before being fired, black coaches won an average of 1.3 more games than white
coaches in their last session. The most important reason behind hiring the black coaches is they
won average of 2.7 more games than white coaches in their first seasons.
Despite an overall better record than their white counterparts, black coaches had a difficult time
getting hired, and once hired, black head coaches were fired before their white counterparts.
Labor economist finding the way to break the glass ceiling holding back promising minority
coaching candidates. Due to increasing discrimination in hiring practices, a committee was form
named committee on work place diversity, the committee issue some recommendations on
making a commitment to interview minority candidates for every head coaching job opening
unless there is no prior commitment to hire a person from within its staff. Establish a
coordinator/assistant head coach databank to assist NFL teams in the consideration of qualified
coaching candidates, and  allow early interview opportunities for assistant coaches of playoff
teams.
The NFL owners held a series of conference calls to discuss the Committee's recommendations,
and the owners "strongly agreed on the principle that any club seeking to hire a head coach
would interview one or more minority applicants for that position. For the successful plan, there
should be obligations for owners to adopt the given recommendation.Thus, Committee can
recommend binding on all the NFL teams for conducting interviews for minority coaches and if
owners failing to interview a minority candidate before filling a head coach vacancy that is
violation of rule would be subject to penalties at the NFL Commissioner's discretion
References
Kovach, kenneth. A. "Diversity And Discrimination At Workplace: Case Study 1 Increasing
Minority Coaches In NFL.". 2011,.