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The Rooney Rule Isn't Working

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🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The Rooney Rule requires NFL teams to interview at least one minority candidate when hiring a head coach or senior executive. But there are currently just three black head coaches in the league and the most recent round of hiring saw only one minority candidate get hired for five open positions. The Athletic's Mike Sando joins us to talk about the Rooney Rule’s effectiveness (or lack thereof) and the potential path forward.

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0:00.0

Now to the NFL where America's professional football league is in the spotlight once again

0:10.8

for its seeming lack of diversity when hiring head coaches.

0:15.1

Since the NFL regular season ended, five NFL teams have hired a new head coach.

0:20.0

But just one of those five, Ron Rivera of Washington, is a minority.

0:24.6

And right now there are just three black head coaches in the entire league, despite the fact

0:29.2

that a majority of players in the NFL are black.

0:31.9

There's a rule that's supposed to prevent this from happening, the Rooney Rule, which requires

0:37.0

NFL teams to interview at least one minority candidate when they're hiring a head coach

0:41.4

or senior executive.

0:43.4

But many people feel like it's not working.

0:46.2

We gotta change this Rooney Rule as bogus, clearly, because as we are...

0:50.0

Today we're joined by Mike Sando, an NFL reporter for the athletic to talk about the Rooney

0:55.0

Rules Effectiveness or Black thereof, and the potential path forward.

1:00.8

From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Kavita Davidson.

1:03.3

And I'm Anders Keltow.

1:04.6

It's Tuesday, February 11th, and this is The League.

1:08.6

It felt like something great was coming.

1:12.8

There was just something about the emotion in the NFL moment.

1:16.4

You gotta go faster, faster.

1:17.8

The stories of the past don't matter because you got this down.

1:20.9

I have never seen anything like that.

1:23.8

This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home.

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