A great milestone was achieved when the top 25 rankings came out for week 12 of the college football season. For the first time in history 4 African-American coaches had their respective teams ranked in the top 25. When you take a step back 4 out of 25 teams isn’t even a lot, it’s only 16% if you break it down. It’s crazy it took to the year of 2012 for this milestone to happen. On a positive light it shows that the coaching landscape is changing slowing but surely.
Highlight the 4 coaches:
Kevin Sumlin- Texas A&M- The first year head coach led the Aggies over Bama in the biggest upset of the season.
David Shaw- Stanford- Even after losing Andrew Luck, Coach Shaw has the Cardinal in position for another BCS bowl appearance.
Charlie Strong- Louisville- Coach Strong has turned around a struggling program faster than expected. Louisville has a shot at a BCS bowl.
Darrell Hazell- Kent State- Coach Hazell has Kent St. on the map for the 1st time in a long time.
Each coach is in a different conference placing their footprint on the game. Hopefully this record doesn’t stand long because records are made to be broken and if it doesn’t stand long it means African American’s are getting more shots on the big stage.
I want to shout these coaches out for their great achievement. I know the mainstream media isn’t shedding much light on these four coaches so I wanted to do my part. Much success to the rest of their season and future endeavors.
Perhaps the media not making a big deal about successful black coaches is actually a good sign. Should anyone be surprised that they were successful in coaching college football? As a society we will have made great progress when we don’t care what race a coach is or even the race of our president. We are all just Americans. May not be there yet but this could be an indication of progress.
In my view, there are good coaches that are black and white and bad ones that are black and white too. Skin color doesn’t appear to have a lot to do with it.
Valid points..