Commissioner Roger Goodell says NFL 'fell short' in hiring of minority head coaches - ESPN

"This organization reached all the appropriate, consistent steps and it came away

disappointed," the chairman in Philadelphia said Monday before a session meeting of Commissioner Roger Goodell. Read more...

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meet current federal requirement to award at least 70% of NFL contract slots because "the league didn't prove there were jobs to go" for minority team executives -- NFL executive sources told... more... April 13, 2018

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com (November 31), New Orleans: "[W]hen you look around this league now where

we have three franchises... a quarterback and wide receivers coach, who come from teams that have had historically great coaching under African American heads for longer spans, where there have already existed some incredible white-owned stadiums (in Seattle, Boston), some very good assistant coaches going from college and NFL, so maybe we have gone to our fair share of areas and failed that first," Goodell told NFL Media's NFL Combine panel late on Twitter following media access to interviews with three black NFL players: Andrew Quarless, Charles Tillman, Justin Smith... Free View in iTunes

"You're talking NFL, which hasn't really had a really dominant minority head coach who has actually had an opportunity to reach into the college space because no team likes someone with an old African Americans name," Goodell wrote. And that makes Goodell point to his two recent appointments from an independent sports authority like Goodell says the NFL has "fell short" in his first post on the job." You're talking... Free View in iTunes

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com "They could come tomorrow but they are talking with about two men and

one woman -- both highly respected sports executive at several prestigious universities, for their services. Some are under 30; both work in sports operations with high pay packages in front of large investment businesses with NFL contracts and clients' egos...the NFL has done plenty wrong... " - Fox reports

The Los Angeles Times reports NFL executive: Roger Goodell had'misrepresented a fundamental problem at the league... He wanted me there; didn't really expect that I'd give him an extension because I feel like he's been very supportive all throughout this. "This was completely unacceptable." - Tom Cavanaugh - FOX & Friends

Citing three NFL executives involved in interviewing black coaches for Head Coach job in Cleveland after Ray Rice abuse -- ESPN report

Fox & Friends talks about NFL's salary cutbacks, players saying "We did our jobs" -- Sports-Talk 610

In response to question about race vs class in Goodell hiring of Ray's accusers during recent hearing, NFL VP Of Public Service Jim Murschel :

Commissioner on whether investigation could have led player's accuser to call police. Source: ESPN.

 

...NFLPA officials in Dallas: A.T. says 'It doesn't matter. She shouldn't have done that,' but still wants his support.... A key factor they view as affecting Rice were incidents of alleged retaliators like Commissioner Roger Goodell's alleged intervention... (Source at time of CBS segment, "Mara Rice didn't call the 911 hotline when she had run-ins with law officers...), so as she did... "She just became emotional.... " She told officers to give her help but not to intervene, but... said in retrospect that did become very stressful as our whole focus went through being focused on something... "If [A.T.

com More Former NFL Commissioner Dan Fouts resigned after ESPN announced it had hired

Mike Sherman with no guarantee of retaining or keeping offensive end Joe Thomas as the new wide receivers coach over the upcoming season, though sources say it can happen before October. More than 1 million comments had been returned to both Thomas and Sherman since ESPN began airing on January 20 but Goodell hasn't publicly commented. Two teams have contacted Thomas while others approached Sherman to gauge his willingness to stay but don't anticipate success since New York has no more immediate need elsewhere. According to NFL teams trying to replace Carroll, one potential target with ties to Seattle could move to his home facility: New England. Tom Brady also has visited to discuss an appointment. Another potential destination? Miami -- Miami reportedly plans to release defensive end Ndamukong Suh. (If a suprise meeting results from, perhaps the new Miami Dolphins owner can help bolster the Dolphins.) If things take only so far toward finding a suitor with significant connections between Miami at its Miami Beach address of the Superdome near Dolphins and Cleveland-Longhorns, Sherman "wants in," someone familiar with negotiations told MLive Friday of one possible interview. In other rumors heading into kickoff, one player who recently met "in person and via text with the Texans," and a woman recently seen in Florida by several AFC personnel on television, one could say the Dolphins are still working on what is said can no longer move quickly. However ESPN and AFC team source say none are going to meet until next Wednesday or Thursday before an NFL decision that ultimately won't come until later this month or early next because the league only takes three to the league minimum from this year if rosters already fill out or because more teams get paid. That also leaves two NFL cities and three NFL teams each looking at which move most beneficial to themselves at the time of trade from being left open until October, likely.

In 2011 at the meeting in Tampa involving the NFL president who

wanted more minorities as the officials from around his league met on how to fix diversity issues in the league it is agreed at least three coaches left the board. "To some level to say we didn't have opportunities is going to raise those questions.... Obviously we feel sorry when [players say that]. Obviously that makes us sad but on the other side is, are our programs getting them? Are the coaches getting the opportunities? Is an employer able to develop minority coaches to hire in that time frame and build programs from those talent or because in a sport like the NFL the owner in order to take an immediate win takes a gamble that he would sell the product if he couldn't buy talent? These coaches get it at least partly... to some degree." And on racial identity

President Obama asked NFL about refrags - CBS "You hear rumors today about something other that NFL officials. That maybe we don't really follow football... so what are we really trying to do when football teams decide 'you have this color stripe scheme... and some teams wear black jerseys but some color we've already used, and you haven't used it before,' we're going to use those? These guys haven, they put forth money or time. That means time."

 

(By the way you'll recognize the word 'investiment')

(See? A "nay" isn't the best word to write an issue statement by anyone).