That Time of Year Again

I think that people in this country truly do not grasp the fourteenth amendment.

Like any other survey on racial equality in collegiate sports, the University of Central Florida is attempting to dictate NCAA policy. According to “Professor” Richard Lapchick’s study, minorities make up less than 20% of presidents, athletic directors, and head football coaches at Division 1-A universities, including a decade low in number of head football coaches. And this is all true.Then he proved his stupidity by suggesting that the NCAA put in place a policy that would give minorities greater protection under the law: require that all colleges interview at least one minority candidate before making a hiring.

Just shut up.

Yes, this will increase the number of minority coaches and athletic directors, but by how much? Not a single NFL head coaching vacancy was filled by a minority coach this off-season, with the exclusion of Kansas City’s trade for Herman Edwards.

And the NFL has this same policy in place.

The New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, St. Louis Rams, Houston Texans, New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, and Minnesota Vikings all hired white men as head coaches in the past few weeks and the Oakland Raiders, who way back in 1988 hired the first black head coach in modern NFL history, are expected to hire a white man right after the Super Bowl. Oh yeah, this policy has worked.

The policy of requiring teams/schools to interview at least one minority candidate props up the chances of a minority getting hired while decreasing the chances of a white person. There is no requirement that a Caucasian individual get interviewed. Nobody complained when Kansas State hired Ron Prince so suddenly without ever interviewing a white guy.

How dare they!

But all of a sudden it becomes a crime to not interview someone of a certain skin color while it is perfectly fine to ignore more than half of the population?

Something is not right with that.

Yet this has become the calling in sports and in the world. This has become what is politically correct.

Political correctness has no place in sports.

I am sick of hearing morons at ESPN talk about the percentage of African Americans in various sports when so many of them are NOT African-Americans! NBA and NFL players from Africa are Africans or Blacks, not African-Americans. Yet we try to use the political correct term and all of a sudden we are being completely incorrect.

Manute Bol is Black; he has never been an African-American.

But this national obsession with political correctness has now carried on over into the world of sports and I’m sick of it. It’s not just these surveys by idiots at the University of Central Florida who are just trying to carry out an agenda: it is the entire sports world.

ESPN has shifted to cater to the black community, just as most sports have. But the leadership positions are still all white dominated. But those are the facts. And creating policies that give blacks a greater chance to succeed are wrong. Blacks don’t deserve a better protection under the law. Nobody does.

But any number that is unequal, any comment that shows superiority, anything that is not politically correct, almost anything at all, is now considered racism. And it is not.

Fischer DeBerry is not a racist; he was just stating a fact that black athletes are faster. The 48 100-meter sprints under ten seconds were all done by blacks (and not African-Americans, like so many idiots say). Sure, he is an ethnocentric twit, but aren’t we all?

And the fact that there are only three head football coaches in Division 1-A is not racism. It is a fact. And stupid policies like the one Richard is proposing will not help to overcome the “problem.”

“The goal is to open the process to get the best people in the room and hire the best people,” Richard said. Well, Vince Lombardi is dead and Pete Carroll is firmly at USC. Sorry Rich.

But over time, there will become more black coaches and athletic directors, but you have to let it take its course. Nobody is being wronged here, except maybe one or two men who deserve the job. And why should half the population pay for the betterment of one or two men?

I believe in equality. And by instituting laws that require minorities to be interviewed, the numbers will become more equal, but the sports world will become less so.

Leave it alone. Don’t play the race card.

And don’t print these annoying surveys every year. I don’t want to have to rewrite this article next year….