[quote] The NFL's Inclusive Hiring Efforts Need to Pay Off
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News Article
Publication Date
11-3-2023
Source Publication
ESPN Andscape
Recommended Citation
Duru, Jeremi and Reid, Jason, "[quote] The NFL's Inclusive Hiring Efforts Need to Pay Off" (2023). Popular Media. 570.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_media/570
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N. Jeremi Duru is among many longtime observers of the NFL’s hiring practices who are awaiting answers.
A professor of sports law at American University, Duru wrote 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. The importance of the results of this hiring cycle, Duru said, cannot be understated.
“Without question, it’s a really, really, big year for the NFL and the hiring cycle when it comes to trying to see the sort of growth and sort of gains that the league has been articulating we’re gonna see,” Duru said in a phone interview Thursday.
“As a consequence of the improvements of the Rooney Rule, as a consequence of the other equal opportunity initiatives, initiatives directed directly at coaching, I know the NFL is hoping to see gains. And everybody interested in this issue, certainly the community of color, is hoping to see gains.”