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NCAA Black Coaches and Leaders in the Professions Road to Success?
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Student Enrollment Data Access to Higher education
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NCAA Student- Athlete Ethnicity Report: 1999-2000- 2008-09 Division I 2008-2009: Highest percentage of Black male basketball players in Division I ( 60.4 percentage) 2008-2009: Highest percentage of Black female basketball players in Division I ( 51.5 percentage) 2008: Highest percentage of football players in Division I were white (46.3 percentage). Black football players (45.6 percentage)
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NCAA African American Head Football Coaches: Unequal Access -- Unequal Outcome (Black Bottomed Pyramid) (Shropshire,1996)
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Future Issues Facing African American Head Coaches Access to NCAA 1-A Head Football Coaching Jobs. Access to Other Administrative Positions ( ie. Athletic Directors, SIDs, Faculty Representatives ).
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What Is AA/ EEOC???? EEOC LAWS: Title V11 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Equal Pay Act of 1963: protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination. Age Discrimination Act in the Employment Act of 1967: protects people who are 40 years of age and olde r
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NCAA African American Head Football Coaches ( November 29, 210) 13 out of 119 ( Kansas, U. of Houston, U. of NM, Naval Academy, Miami*, Florida International, E. Mich. U., NM State U., U. of Memphis, UVA, W. Kentucky, Louisville, U. of Kentucky, East Carolina) Division II: 3 out of 133 ( Wayne State, Stonehill College, Missouri S&T) Division III: 7 out of 229 ( Salisbury, Randolph- Macon, Chapman U., DePauw U., Widener U., Greenville College, Capital U.) BCA Report, 2010
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Faces in a Mostly White, Male Crowd (Suggs, 2005) Career Track Fund raiser/ Dev. Promotions/ Market Business manager Asst. AD Assoc. AD AD White African-American 67% 28% 66% 30% 44% 50% 64% 29% 61% 31% 89% 7% 2003-04 data
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January 11, 2007 Employment Data 17 Minority Athletic Directors: 12 Black, 4 Latino, and 1 American Indian
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2008 Diversity Report 87.5% of the A.D.s are White 92.6% of the faculty athletic reps are White Every conference commissioner is white 55% of all student athletes are minorities
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NCAA 1 A faculty diversity (2007-08) 83.2 % white 3.5 % African American 3.1 % Latino 9.5 % Asian.4% Native American
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Newspapers and the Media (2008) 94% of the sports editors are white 88% of the columnist are white 94 % of the sports editors are men 87% of the reporters are white 84% of the copy editors are men
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2010 NCAA Hiring Data From 1979-2002: 19 full time Black Head Football Coaches were hired Positions of Power:88 Percent of AD s
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Coaching Assignments YearsStudent AthletesAssistant Coaches Head Coaches Athletic Directors 2003-200444.3%16.9%2.9%3.4% 2000-200142.1%16.5%2.1%2.9% YearsStudent AthletesAssistant Coaches Head Coaches Athletic Directors 2003-200448.3%73.5%96%88.5% 2000-200149.3%74.6%96.9%88.4% African Americans White
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College Head Coaches: Men’s Teams 2003-04BasketballFootballBaseball White76.4%96%96.4% African American23.2%2.9%0.9% Other0.4%1.1%2.7% 2000-01BasketballFootballBaseball White76.7%96.9%97.5% African American22.9%2.1%0.0% Other0.4%1.0%2.5%
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Coaching Mobility: Developing New Models Coaching Mobility Patterns Social, Educational, Athletic, and Career Background Coaching Subcultures Network Structures: – Career Mobility Models Blalock Talent Avenue Internal Mobility Careers: Labels Coaching Mobility Tied to Macro Level Variables Complex Organizational Theory
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Career Mobility Patterns Sage & Loy, 1978 (Regional Hiring Practice) Social, Educational, Athletic and Career Backgrounds Latimer & Mathis, 1985 (66% of African American coaches attended college in home district.) Banks, 1979 (Identified Coaching Attributes) Coaching Subcultures Massengale, 1974 (Subculture As a Referral System) Network Structures Linkages Among Individuals: Net work ties Blalock Talent Model : Best person for the job Internal Mobility Careers: Label – mobility tied to success of coach
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Black Coaching Career Models Stem and Branch Structural Mobility Model: Develop Trees and Branches Talent Model: Previous Playing skills Personal Attribute: Leader skills, personality Networking Avenues: Ties to Other Coaches and Administrators
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Turner Gill (UK)
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Kevin Sumlin (Houston)
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Mike Locksley (New Mexico)
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Ken Niumatalolo (Naval Academy)
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Mario Cristobal (Florida International)
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Mike Haywood* (Miami of Ohio)
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Ron English* (Eastern Michigan)
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Dwayne Walker* (New Mexico State University)
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Larry Porter* (Memphis)
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Mike London* (Virginia)
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Willie Taggart* (Western Kentucky)
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Charlie Strong (Louisville)
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Joker Phillips (Kentucky)
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Division 1-A Black Coaches by Position Assignment (2003-2004 Season) 2003-2004White African American Asian Hispani c Native America n Other Offensive Coordinator 164113000 Defensive Coordinator 164172001 All Other Assistants 82735561048 Graduate Assistants 231542402
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Division 1-A Black Coaches by Position Assignment (1995 Season)
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Offensive and Defensive Coordinators (n= 244): 2007 26 ( 10.7 %) African American 4 (1.6 %) Latino men 2 (.8 %) Asian men
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BCA Research Design: 2009 Number of communications with BCA and or MOIC regarding candidates of color Number of people of color on hiring committee/ total number of people of color involved in the hiring process Number of candidates of color provided with an official interview/ total number of official interviews Reasonable time frame for search and hiring process Adherence to Institutional AA hiring Policies
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Social Justice Initiatives NCAA Leadership for Ethnic Minority Males (2001-2002) NCAA Internship Black Coaches Association Rainbow Coalition for Fairness in Athletics (est. 1992) Black Women in Sports Foundation (founded in 1992) NCAA: Certification Program’s Second Cycle
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Student- Athletes Academic Major: Freedom To Select?
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Athletes Choose Majors To Accommodate Sports ( Fall, 2006) NCAA Survey: 20,000 student athletes 32% of football and men’s basketball players ( NCAA 1) said their athletic participation prevented them from majoring in what they really wanted. 69% of the major college football and basketball players said their professors viewed them, “ more as an athlete than as a student”
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Do Athletes tend to cluster by academic major? Most popular major for football players: business, communications, criminal justice, sociology, sport management (Jan. 2003) Georgia Tech.: 56% football players major in: Management University of Iowa: 20% of football players major in: Business
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Jock Majors: Football Bowl Teams (Suggs,2003) Texas A&M: About 25% of the players study agriculture development or Agr. And life Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology: 56 % major in management(11% 0f the University major in this field) WVU: 18% ACE WVU: 8% Sport Management What are the Issues?
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Academic Major Selection: Some Possible Factors Course Availability ( classes offered between 1:00 P.M and 3:00 P.M.): conflict with practice sessions Student teaching expectations Labs (evening or weekends): conflict with practice sessions. Very selective academic majors: enrollment management.
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A Look Inside The Classroom
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Black Athletes and White Professors Overlooking Lower Expectations Cutting Off Intensified Scrutiny Negative Comments
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Micro aggression : Invisible in the classroom Racial Segregation- Study groups Social Events Need for Counter Space!
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Looking Towards The Future “Big Time College Athletics” Move Towards Equal Outcomes for All Student Athletes Increased in the number of other ethnic minorities( coaches, staff, student-athletes) on campus.
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Future Issues and Concerns: A Move Towards Equality of Outcomes Reduce length of playing season, practice sessions and tournament play Freshmen ineligible to play Athletic Department academic advisers report to academic dean or Provost Office
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