Taking Advantage of an Untapped Pool: Assessing the Success of African American Head Coaches in the National Football League

Branham, David

doi:10.1007/s12114-008-9031-1

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“…For the longer period of 1989 through 2007, Branham (2008) confirms Madden’s results as he also finds that African American coaches outperform whites in the regular season and perform at similar levels in the playoffs. He does not consider, however, whether performance differences by race change after the initiation of the Rooney Rule affirmative efforts.…”

Section: Head Coach Records By Race 1990–2002 and 2003–2009supporting

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Has the NFL’s Rooney Rule Efforts ‘‘Leveled the Field’’ for African American Head Coach Candidates?

Madden

Ruther

2010

Journal of Sports Economics

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Madden (2004) and Madden and Ruther (2009) provide evidence that African American National Football League (NFL) head coaches significantly out-performed their white counterparts between 1990 and 2002. They conclude that this evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that African Americans had to be better coaches than whites in order to be hired as a head coach in the NFL. In 2002, the NFL promulgated the Rooney Rule requiring NFL teams to interview a minority candidate when appointing new head coaches, as well as other affirmative efforts. This paper analyzes whether the performance advantage of African American head coaches has been eliminated in the time since the Rooney Rule’s affirmative efforts have been in effect. The paper also examines racial differentials in performance in other NFL coaching positions that were less affected by Rooney Rule affirmative efforts, finding no similar time trends in performance differentials by race.

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Section: Head Coach Records By Race 1990–2002 and 2003–2009supporting

confidence: 68%

“… 11 Branham (2008) used playoff seeding in his analyses of racial differences in playoff success. Of course, seeding in the playoffs, regular season win record and pre-season ranking are highly correlated.…”

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Has the NFL’s Rooney Rule Efforts ‘‘Leveled the Field’’ for African American Head Coach Candidates?

Madden

Ruther

2010

Journal of Sports Economics

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“…For example, Holmes (2011) finds evidence of salary discrimination against African American MLB players, while Berri and Simmons (2009) find evidence of salary discrimination against African American quarterbacks in the NFL. Branham (2008) and Madden (2004) bring to light that African American coaches in the NFL are seemingly on a shorter leash and held to a higher standard than similar white coaches. Also, Kanazawa and Funk (2001) find evidence of customer discrimination against African American NBA players.…”

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Racial Position Segregation in Intercollegiate Football: Do Players become more Racially Segregated as they Transition from High School to College?

Pitts

Yost

2013

The Review of Black Political Economy

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This study revisits the issue of racial position segregation or racial “stacking” in intercollegiate football. Estimating a probit model, we examine the impact that a player's race has on the probability of him changing positions when he moves from high school to the collegiate ranks. Descriptive statistics of our data reveal significant evidence that racial position segregation is widespread in high school football. The data also offers much information about which players are likely to change positions and the positions that they are likely to switch to when transitioning from high school to college. Most notably, our probit results reveal that African American high school quarterbacks and white high school running backs are significantly more likely to change positions in college than their white and African American counterparts, respectively. Thus, while other positions do not appear to become more racially segregated as players transition from high school to college, the quarterback and running back positions do appear to become significantly more racially segregated.

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“…Prior research involving Black coaches in the National Football League (NFL) has found changes over time in their performances relative to White coaches (Branham, 2008). With that in mind, the fifth and sixth rows split the sample between games in 2005-2010 and games in 2010-2015.…”

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Discrimination or Motivation? Black Coaches and College Basketball Polls

Nutting

2018

The Review of Black Political Economy

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From 2005 to 2015, when ranked teams in the college basketball Media and Coaches Polls played each other, the better-ranked team ceteris paribus won more often when its head coach was Black and the opposing coach was White. This suggests pollsters underrated—discriminated against—highly ranked Black coaches. Coach race did not affect game outcome in the computer-based Sagarin Poll. Black-coached teams lost more often to unranked opponents, though, which is inconsistent with discrimination against them. An alternative possibility is that Black coaches were particularly motivated to avoid upsets by White-coached Top 25 teams, especially in years after many prominent Black coaches had lost their jobs.

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Taking Advantage of an Untapped Pool: Assessing the Success of African American Head Coaches in the National Football League

Abstract: Hiring discrimination, Coaching, Pro football,

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Has the NFL’s Rooney Rule Efforts ‘‘Leveled the Field’’ for African American Head Coach Candidates?

Has the NFL’s Rooney Rule Efforts ‘‘Leveled the Field’’ for African American Head Coach Candidates?

Racial Position Segregation in Intercollegiate Football: Do Players become more Racially Segregated as they Transition from High School to College?

Discrimination or Motivation? Black Coaches and College Basketball Polls

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