{"id":656606,"date":"2026-05-21T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656606\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:56:08","slug":"marshall-faulk-shares-strong-views-about-racial-disparity-in-key-college-pro-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656606\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Faulk shares strong views about racial disparity in key college, pro jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Uthmeier<\/a> probably won\u2019t want to read this. Even if he should.<\/p>\n

A recent article from Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today explores the lack of Black coaches at the college level<\/a>. It includes pointed quotes from Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk, who is in his first year as the head coach at Southern University, regarding the inability of Black players to become coaches at the college or pro level.<\/p>\n

First, the facts. As Schrotenboer notes, only 13 major-college programs have Black head coaches. That\u2019s down from 17 out of 120 in 2011. <\/p>\n

\u201cFootball\u2019s the only sport that players struggle to come off the field and become a coach,\u201d Faulk told Schrotenboer. \u201cThey look at us like if you\u2019re successful at the game playing then you won\u2019t be successful at the game in any other capacity. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just gonna say what it is,\u201d Faulk said. \u201cMatt Ryan can be a G.M. Why do other players kind of go through and jump through the hoops to be a G.M.?\u201d (Ryan is the president of football with the Falcons, one step above the G.M.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s the quarterback [coach] that\u2019s now in Minnesota?\u201d Faulk added, referring to former NFL quarterback Josh McCown. \u201cHe was in Houston. They were about to give him the [head coaching] job. . . . He barely played. Played a few games in the league. But it happens. You can be JJ Redick and never have coaching experience and get the Lakers job. But can Marshall Faulk get the Rams job? Hell no. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The numbers don\u2019t lie, and facts are stubborn things. As it relates to the current (and historic) numbers in both college and pro football, something is clearly off. The demographics of the coaching population don\u2019t match the demographics of the player population.<\/p>\n

The only way it will change is through litigation. Which is slow. And expensive. And detrimental to the career of the person who dares to stand up and say something about it \u2014 especially in the current political climate.<\/p>\n

The current political climate is sufficiently hostile to the notion of diversity that Uthmeier is hassling the NFL for diversity efforts that have failed to move the needle. Beyond being wrong (and probably performative), it\u2019s bizarre. <\/p>\n

Hiring systems supposedly based on \u201cmerit\u201d have created results that speak for themselves. And what those results are saying is that there has been, and continues to be, a very real problem. Even if some will insist it\u2019s a problem to try to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Uthmeier probably won\u2019t want to read this. Even if he should. A recent article from Brent Schrotenboer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-656606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}