[quote] Ron Rivera and Another Blow to Coaching Diversity in the NFL

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News Article

Publication Date

11-30-2023

Abstract

N. Jeremi Duru understands their thinking.

A professor of sports law at American University, Duru authored the definitive book on the creation of the Rooney Rule, Advancing The Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL. Among the nation’s foremost experts on the NFL’s hiring practices, Duru said there is precedent for concern.

“Historically, in all different walks of life in this country, it been the case that people of color have been viewed monolithically,” Duru said in a phone interview this week. “Consequently, if you have one person who fails to rise to a certain standard or surmount a certain bar, presumptions are developed that, well, nobody of that group — people of color, Black people — are gonna be able to do that. That definitely is a dynamic. And it’s not just in sport. It’s throughout society.”

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ESPN Andscape

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