This is one of the most ignorant threads ever. Is UF racist? are other posters on here racist? and most of what I read was just ignorant fluff. the one post on here said you should hire the best man for the job regardless of race and he was called racist for that. Yet in reality, that is the least racist post I read. Isn't that the goal - all equal regardless of race?? If a person of color is the best for the job - hire him/her...if its a white person, hire him/her. Race should not affect how one is viewed for a job, in life, in anything.
You know what's racist? the rule imposed by white NFL executives that NFL owners and GM's must interview at least one person of color for every job opening. That is racist...it does NOTHING to improve equality. Most teams target a Coach and then grant token interviews to a current coordinator and then a minority candidate for compliance purposes - then give the job to an established white head coach with years of experience. Same in the NCAA - they follow a similar policy. But little progress is made.
What the rule and all it implies is racist...its basically saying that minority candidates are probably not deserving of an interview based on merit alone - so we are going to force you to interview them any way....just so it looks good. There are plenty of minority coaches who would be great to lead programs and who should get a shot based not on a rule, or on color, but on merit..on what they can do and have accomplished.
I honestly look forward, maybe naively to a day when we never have to wonder is he a minority coach, a white coach, did Strong marry a white woman...who cares - there is one race...the human race. accept it and put all this crap away.
As far as should other schools use that as a recruiting point - i think you can figure out I'm going to say no...that just keeps racist thinking going and adds to the problem - solves nothing
