I’ll bet every up and coming coach you ever liked totally crushed it.
Well I certainly don’t pine almost exclusively for mediocre or unproven black coaches. Black players make up a large percentage of ball players, but if you think about it, there just aren’t very many good black head coaches in either football or basketball at any given time. I don’t know why. I do know the “let’s hire the black guy who is a good recruiter” pretty much never works out.
And I know your first thought is going to be “well it’s lack of opportunity.” Bullshit.
There have never been more black assistant coaches as there have been the last decade or two. Institutions actively want to hire good black head coaches.
I was very happy Whitman got us off the “never had a minority head coach” snide with Lovie than being forced to limit our basketball coaching candidate pool to minorities when Groce inevitably got canned. We could afford a do-over on football as it was already at rock bottom, but with basketball we needed to hire the best guy we feasibly could regardless of race before any more damage was done. Hiring Lovie first allowed us to do that.