The NFL severely lacks minority head coaches. Derrick Z. Jackson, a contributor to The Undefeated, thinks that can be traced to racial disparities in the graduation rates among athletes on college football bowl teams. OnlyAGameNPR
KG: So how long have you been tracking the graduation rates of college athletes?KG: On average, college football bowl teams graduate more of their white players than they do their African American players. How disparate are those numbers?
"A lot of teams are only graduating about half or a little more than half of their black players and yet many, many teams of the bowl teams this year graduated 100% of the white players."You wrote in your article for The Undefeated,"Those disparities alone maintain the halo of white intellectual superiority among athletes. A centrifugal force in the conveyor belt of white coaches running majority black teams.
KG: Let's talk about that because there are probably a certain number of people who will listen to this idea and say,"Come on. What's the big deal? I mean, athletes have a great life." So what is wrong with it? Why is it damaging? KG: So, connect the dots for me. How does what's happening on college campuses directly affect the number of African American coaches we see in the NFL?
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