{"id":1406035,"date":"2022-03-28T21:59:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406035"},"modified":"2022-03-28T21:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:59:49","slug":"nfl-requires-teams-to-hire-diverse-person-to-offensive-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-requires-teams-to-hire-diverse-person-to-offensive-coaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Requires Teams to Hire &#039;Diverse Person&#039; to Offensive Coaching Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-requires-teams-to-hire-diverse-person-to-offensive-coaching-staff%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406035&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The NFL believes it has a problem with having too few minority coaches among its ranks. So, they\u2019ve decided to solve this problem by ordering each team to hire a \u201cdiverse person\u201d to their offensive coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>The league informed teams of the new requirement in a memo sent Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAll NFL teams will be required to have a \u201cdiverse person (female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority)\u201d on staff as an offensive assistant in 2022,\u201d <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em> reporter Michael Gehlken wrote. \u201cThis position will be funded, in part, by a stipend from league office. Rule designed to improve diversity of HC pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All NFL teams will be required to have a \u201cdiverse person (female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority)\u201d on staff as an offensive assistant in 2022. This position will be funded, in part, by a stipend from league office. Rule designed to improve diversity of HC pipeline. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HPfr4NE92L\">pic.twitter.com\/HPfr4NE92L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Gehlken (@GehlkenNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GehlkenNFL\/status\/1508528327019180037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The move comes as former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores pursues a case against the NFL for racism in their hiring practices. Flores brought the suit after he claimed the New York Giants interviewed him with no intention of hiring him as they had already decided to hire former Bills coach Brian Daboll to be the head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL has had the Rooney Rule in place for nearly twenty years. A regulation requiring teams to interview at least two minority candidates for a coaching position and at least one minority candidate for front-office positions. Women are also included under the Rooney Rule.<\/p>\n<p>Up until recently, there were several minority head coaches in the league. However, after a slew of firings at the end of the 2021 season, Pittsburgh\u2019s Mike Tomlin was the only minority coach left in the league.<\/p>\n<p>With only two minority coaches hired in the latest hiring cycle, the league seems to have shifted from merely requiring interviews to actually mandating hires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL believes it has a problem with having too few minority coaches among its ranks. 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