Hallman: Black coaches' shelf life is much shorter & benefit of the doubt much less practiced as opposed to their White counterpart

howeda7 said:

He weighed in when Ben was hired and fired. In between he gave exactly zero ##$# about Gopher Basketball.

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Well, he did steer Tre Hallman away from the Gophers.

What people like Hallman can't seem to grasp is that coming out with BS like this everytime a black coach is fired isn't going to motivate schools to hire more black coaches because nobody wants to be called racist when they have to make a coaching change.

Firing Ben Johnson had nothing to do with his skin color. He wasn't able to get the team to the NCAA tournament in 4 seasons and year 5 had the looks of a likely dumpster fire considering he was losing almost all the key pieces off of this year's roster that wasn't even good enough to crack .500.

And on top of all that.....the University of Minnesota basketball program shouldn't get lumped in with larger problem that is out there in terms of minority coaches getting opportunities because 3 of the last 5 basketball coaches at the U have been black.

Crap like this just pisses me off. There is a real problem out there in regards to the number of minority coaches and while it is getting better there is still plenty of work to do. But playing the race card everytime a black coach is fired doesn't help the next guy get an opportunity. If anything it probably hurts it.

I don’t give a good goddamn about the color of anybody’s skin. I waited 26 years for a decent gopher team so if that means find a new coach so be it anything else is absolute fucking bullshit.