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You may have heard that the BCA (Black Coaches & Administrators) has been on Texas A&M's case recently for hiring Mike Sherman without interviewing any minority candidates. Am I the only one that this irks?

Mike Sherman is a former NFL head coach and general manager. He was a pretty successful one, at that. Is this really the right place to gripe? It would seem to me that he was a no-brainer hire; if he wanted the job, it should have been his to take without the need of interviewing other candidates.

Mind you, I think the BCA has a good point and I thoroughly support the notion that there are lots of minority candidates that don't get enough, if any, consideration for jobs. I just wish that they would've picked a better place to gripe.

Agree. They need to pick better battles (I'm sure there are plenty out there, seems like they are looking for high profile schools/coaching jobs)......after a while, it's almost like the boy who cried wolf.

I almost started a rant about it yesterday but got lazy.

I completely agree with you. To me, it's a bigger farce and more unfair to the black coaches they would have interviewed if they were just doing it to appease others or follow regulations when the whole time they knew they had their first choice in a former successful NFL head coach.

I'm glad you two see where I'm coming from. I'm certainly not trying to say that the BCA is wrong in their intentions. I completely agree with their intentions.

I mean... what about Ole Miss? It took them about three seconds to hire Houston Nutt.

Also, it's not an accident that BCA has made an issue of A&M's hiring. That university doesn't have the best reputation for minority relations.

heyzeus wrote:Also, it's not an accident that BCA has made an issue of A&M's hiring. That university doesn't have the best reputation for minority relations.

I wondered if that was playing a part, not unlike how the NCAA would watch a program run by Jim Harrick like a hawk.

heyzeus wrote:Also, it's not an accident that BCA has made an issue of A&M's hiring. That university doesn't have the best reputation for minority relations.

My wife and I were offered teaching positions at A &M, but we turned down the offers. We liked the department a lot, and the alumni base is fiercely loyal. We didn't fall in love with the Greek organizations that threw an "Old South" party, complete with servants in blackface.

sighyoung wrote:We didn't fall in love with the Greek organizations that threw an "Old South" party, complete with servants in blackface.

Yikes.

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sighyoung wrote: We didn't fall in love with the Greek organizations that threw an "Old South" party, complete with servants in blackface.

That's stupefying.

sighyoung wrote:

heyzeus wrote:Also, it's not an accident that BCA has made an issue of A&M's hiring. That university doesn't have the best reputation for minority relations.

My wife and I were offered teaching positions at A &M, but we turned down the offers. We liked the department a lot, and the alumni base is fiercely loyal. We didn't fall in love with the Greek organizations that threw an "Old South" party, complete with servants in blackface.

How long ago was this?

There are two reasons that A&M has so few minority students (especially ones that are not on athletic scholarships). One is that they don't go out of their way to attract diversity. Two is incidents like this...which are fairly common in Bryan/College Station.