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Old 01-23-2016, 08:39 PM   #94
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada View Post
The Rooney rule in the NFL hasn't accomplished a thing other than give the same rotation of black candidates token interviews every year so teams can check that box prior to hiring the head coach they have targeted.
Hey look, EE is talking out of his ass again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney...centincrease-7

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At the start of the 2006 season, the overall percentage of African American coaches had jumped to 22%, up from 6% prior to the Rooney Rule.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/sp...diversity.html

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Among the league’s hundreds of assistant coaches, 16 percent were members of minority groups in 1991; that proportion increased to 36 percent in 2007 and 29 percent in 2013.
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