Falcons TE coach Kevin Koger declines to interview for Saints OC position
Exactly why the rule shouldn’t be there. It just creates unnecessary situations all around and it’s uncomfortable for everyone involved.
I think opportunities exist, as I said just look around. There are more black HC and coaches in general in the NFL and College than there were 20 years ago, and 20 years b4 that.
A large part of that is because of the Rooney Rule and equal access and opportunity rules. There's a very strong direct correlation between when those efforts started and the increase in black coaches. I don't think that's a coincidence.
Will those opportunities continue to increase? Yes
Without the Rooney Rule I think there'd still be opportunities, but I think there would be less. If the Rooney Rule were eliminated, I think the number of black head coaches in the NFL would start decreasing.
Like I said…nature works on its on. There’s no Rooney rule in the natural order of things that looks to accelerate a process. Things happen on their own time and that’s proven true.
Nature is not linear. It goes back and forth between calm and catastrophe, better and worse. A lot of laws and rules that we have as humans is to dissuade us from acting on our more harmful and disruptive natural tendencies. I think the Rooney Rule is one of those rules. No human process is perfect, because of the humans in it.
The benefit of the Rooney Rule is not just giving minority coaches a chance for an interview. The bigger benefit is that it's a reminder that giving equal access and opportunity is important enough that we have a rule for it.
If they get rid of the Rooney Rule, the message is that giving equal access and opportunity is not important enough to have a rule for it. That to me is a not a good idea.
Patience is virtue, things aren’t perfect but they are less flawed than before.
As a result of the Rooney Rule and other equal access and opportunity rules and efforts. Take those away and you are more likely to see things get worse than you are to see them stay on course.
Things like the Rooney rule actually exasperate the flaw even though in theory it was intended to do the opposite.
I disagree for the reasons I've explained above.
It’s like DEI training. That didn’t work in the way it was intended...
It actually has worked as intended in lot of places. This blanket statement is not factually accurate. You've probably seen it not work as intended firsthand, but I can tell you I have seen firsthand in several instances it has worked better than intended.
and there’s a reason…it’s another forced action.
Every law is a forced action, but the laws work much better than not having any laws at all. The formative years of our lives were spent under the forced actions of our parents. Since you like to reference nature and the natural, there isn't a single communal species that doesn't have their own sets of forced action. It's a completely natural and necessary thing for a communal species and we are one of the most complex communal species that there is.
There isn’t a soul on this planet that responds well to being forced into something.
Everyone of us drives on the right side of the road without giving a second thought to why we do. Okay, you, got me. In some countries, it's the left side of the road. After a few generations, a rule doesn't feel forced. Just like you don't feel forced to drive on the right side of the road. It seems natural to you.
I want to point out that the fact that some people feel the Rooney Rule is forcing people to provide at least a small level of equal access and opportunity, means we still need the rule. You often say that an interview is just because of the Rooney Rule. If that's true, then without the Rooney Rule those interviews go away and so does any opportunities that stem from them.