As part of the NFL’s initiative to increase minority hiring, the league has formed a committee that will compile and share lists of promising coaching and general manager candidates for the benefit of teams searching for new hires.
NFL will offer list of promising coaches, GMs to owners
The league is hoping the candidate recommendations of a new committee can increase diversity in the NFL’s coaching and executive ranks.
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As Peter King reports, the eight-person committee, which includes former Buccaneers and Colts head coach Tony Dungy and former Colts GM Bill Polian, recently finalized a double-digit list of recommended names. The list, which contains both minority and white candidates, is about more than increasing racial diversity among the NFL coaching and executive ranks, the league says -- it will also expose new names and under-the-radar talent.
An exclusive, all access look at the people, technology, and highly organized chaos that results in the NFL’s most advanced game broadcast. “The focus is not just the hot name,” said Robert Gulliver, the NFL’s executive vice president for human resources. “It’s identifying the new talent too. New names will emerge.”
Owners are free to use or ignore the list as they see fit.
Last January, 14 consecutive head coaching and GM jobs were filled with white men, King reports. The league is hoping the committee’s list will help buck that trend.
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