The NFL is making progress with diversity, but in the SEC all the coaches remain white.
SEC signage at the Littlefield Fountain on the University of Texas campus Sunday during the school's SEC celebration. The Longhorns officially join the SEC on July 1There are now 16 head football coaches in the SEC and they have all two things in common. They all get paid millions of dollars to do their jobs, and they’re all white.
In the NFL, nine coaches who identify as minorities, including seven of whom are Black, are preparing for the 2024 season. That’s a new record for diversity among head coaches in the history of the NFL. Meanwhile, another all-white SEC Media Days is set to begin on Monday in Dallas. Yet again, the SEC just means more and more head coaching opportunities for white candidates. Twelve schools in the SEC have made head coaching changes over the last four years . No one is hiring black head coaches.
Of all the FBS level football teams throughout the entire South , only two will have Black head coaches for the 2024 season. They are Derek Mason, in his first season at Middle Tennessee State, and Tony Elliott, who is going into his third season at Virginia. Elliott was the only Black head football coach at the FBS level in the entire South in 2023.
Elliott is 6-16 over two years at Virginia, but his predecessor, Bronco Mendenhall, was 36-38 over six seasons before stepping down in 2021. Nick Saban produced an assembly line of future head coaches at Alabama. So far, only one of them is Black. Know why? It’s because Mike Locksley was Saban’s first and only Black offensive coordinator of his entire career.
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