Diversity Rule Goes to College

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Will The College Football Diversity Rule Change Anything?
Published 2/11/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... A written policy stipulating that any Division I-A football program with a head coaching vacancy will interview at least one minority candidate was sent just more than three weeks ago to athletic directors at the 120 schools. The two-page document details what it calls "acceptable standards" regarding diversity in interviewing and hiring practices, and was distributed by the Division I-A Athletic Directors' Association. ...

NCAA enacts Rooney-esque Rule for Division I-A football
Published 2/11/2008 by Thermocaster at The Meaningful Collateral
... Somehow this story slipped through the cracks over the weekend, but the Washington Post has reported that the NCAA Division I-A Athletic Directors Association instituted a written policy mandating that athletic departments interview at least one minority candidate for open head coaching positions in football. ...

MINORITY CANDIDATES TO INTERVIEW NOW THAT YOU KINDA HAVE TO
Published 2/11/2008 by Orson Swindle at EDSBS
... Now, thanks to a penalty-less edict from the Division I-A Athletic Directors’ Association, the Rooney Rule has come to college football. The bad news: now, schools will by community agreement and without enforceable penalty require the substantial interview of at least one minority candidate for each position on staff. ...

NCAA Joins the 21st Century With Adapted Rooney Rule
Published 2/12/2008 by John Radcliff at FanHouse
... The NCAA has never been one to be out in the lead on social issues or any other issues for that matter. Still no playoff system or early signing period for recruits. But the governing body of major college football has taken a step in the right direction with the adaptation of the acceptable standards when it comes to minority interviewing. (ht: ...

No Teeth In College Football’s New Interview Rule.
Published 2/12/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... 8 minority coaches out of 120 schools is not exactly a mark that the NCAA would like to continue with D-IA college football, particularly when so many of the scholarship athletes are of color. But let’s just say that the new agreement regarding minority interview and hiring practices adopted by the member schools is pretty damn toothless: ...

Reporters' Notebooks
Published 2/12/2008 by dawizofodds at The Wizard of Odds
... Mark Maske, Washington Post: A version of the minority-interviewing rule that was the catalyst for the NFL to diversify its head coaching ranks has been adopted by major college football. Thanks to ...

Sunday Smorgasbord 2-24
Published 2/25/2008 by Caps Nut at Bleatings From a Caps Nut
... Had my computer cooperated with me last week I would have asked you if you enjoyed the Redskins coaching search? Well if you did, it will soon be coming to your favorite College Football program. Though there isn't any real enforcement mechanism the "diversify or die" crowd can use to enforce it, you can be rest assured that the politically correct folks who infect our institutions of higher learning will see to it that it is vigorously enforced until the next Ty Willingham disaster is thrust upon them. Strike another victory for the Forces of Tolerance. (Only this ...