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

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Black coaches have a shorter leash?

Then explain Mike Tomlin.

Oh wait, he wins.
 

Such a weak argument. The decision was clearly made based on record and results. That's the same case for Woodson at Indiana.

If Woodson was getting the Hoosiers to the Sweet 16 and beyond and competing for conference titles, he would get more time like Crean did. If Johnson was regularly in the NCAA tournament or making NIT runs with winning records recently, he'd get himself a tenure more like Tubby and Pitino did.

That wasn't the case though. Coaches being fired because of their records and lack of accomplishments in major college sports is the reality. Every year coaches don't work out and they get let go at season's end.
 




John Thompson
Lenny Wilkens
Doc Rivers
The guy who coached Temple
Nolan Richardson
Tony Dungy

These are all coaches who coached for a very long time and they share a skin color.

What they didn’t share is losing.
 

Otis said:
John Thompson
Lenny Wilkens
Doc Rivers
The guy who coached Temple
Nolan Richardson
Tony Dungy

These are all coaches who coached for a very long time and they share a skin color.

What they didn’t share is losing.
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John Chaney
 



Who? Why does anyone give this nobody any attention? So because we’ve had little success in the past we should be happy to have the worst coach in our history? Just tone deaf.
 



About 80% of the college players are black, at least at high DI programs. You'd think that a greater percentage of coaches would also be black. The fact thats not the case raises questions.

Would be cool if the next Gopher coach is also African American, but its got to be someone with a track record of winning, first and foremost.
 


Last offseason, for the guys who were fired (didn't go to a comparable job elsewhere), the conference winning percentage for the African American coaches was .364 and the winning percentage for the white coaches who were fired was .471. These numbers include Howard's numbers (by far the winningest AA coach who was fired) who punched an opposing coach. These numbers don't include guys like Andy Enfield and Calipari who left/pushed out but whose numbers would only help the white coaches.

Maybe I missed someone, but here are who I am counting:
African American coaches:
Tony Stubblefield - Depaul - 9-38
Kenny Payne - Louisville - 5-35
Juwon Howard - Michigan - 49-48
Mike Boynton - OK ST - 51-75
Rob Lanier - SMU - 16-20
Jerry Stackhouse - Vandy - 28-60

White coaches:
Chris Holtmann - Ohio State - 67-65
Jerod Haase - Stanford - 67-84
Mike Hopkins - Washington - 62-72
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
Last offseason, for the guys who were fired (didn't go to a comparable job elsewhere), the conference winning percentage for the African American coaches was .364 and the winning percentage for the white coaches who were fired was .471. These numbers include Howard's numbers (by far the winningest AA coach who was fired) who punched an opposing coach. These numbers don't include guys like Andy Enfield and Calipari who left/pushed out but whose numbers would only help the white coaches.

Maybe I missed someone, but here are who I am counting:
African American coaches:
Tony Stubblefield - Depaul - 9-38
Kenny Payne - Louisville - 5-35
Juwon Howard - Michigan - 49-48
Mike Boynton - OK ST - 51-75
Rob Lanier - SMU - 16-20
Jerry Stackhouse - Vandy - 28-60

White coaches:
Chris Holtmann - Ohio State - 67-65
Jerod Haase - Stanford - 67-84
Mike Hopkins - Washington - 62-72
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Wonder what this year will look like, add Mike Woodson and Ben Johnson to the list
 




Breakin' The Plane said:
I wish they didn't have to fire him. I'd have been elated if he was coaching this weekend for a Big Ten Tournament title and a high seed in the tourney. He didn't win. He didn't engage the fans. This is a multi-million dollar operation. This is a results based business, and the results were poor.
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The lack of engagement might have bothered me the most, as it's simply a matter of effort and choice. If, instead, he's not capable of engaging with customers, even superficially on social media, it's yet another reason he shouldn't have been hired.
 


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