NCAA Minority Coaches - Black Coaches Association Gives San Jose State an "F" Grade; Notre Dame, "B"; Indiana University "A"; University of Utah "F"

From the BCA Report Executive Summary. See www.bcasports.org

"Since 1982, there have been 404 head coaching openings at the NCAA Division IA level.


African American coaches have been selected for 19 (4%) of the head coaching opening with 17 of the appointments
occurring after 1990 (Hill, 2005).

In the history of Division IA, African American coaches have been selected a total of 23 times as the leaders of college football programs (Hill, 2005). Since 1996, only 9 African American coaches have been hired (one each year) out of 165 vacancies. The same historical pattern of Division IA football is even worse at the Division IAA, II, and III levels. This year the pattern held true for IA with the hiring of Tyrone Willingham at University of Washington.

Last year,predominately white IAA schools had zero coaches of color; however, this has changed with the hiring of
Lou West, an African American, at Indiana State.

In the 2004-05 Hiring Report Card #2, the grades did not improved in terms of the overall letter grades.
Further, when each of the five categories of the Hiring Report Card is examined, low marks across the
categories empirically indicate the need for more improvement in the various areas..."

And the grade list (partial and for selected colleges)

BYU - C
East Carolina - B
Indiana U - A
Louisiana State - D
Notre Dame - B
Ohio U - A
Stanford - C
San Jose State - F
University of Utah - F
Western Michigan - A

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Who got the F Grades? Well, San Jose State for one. Think about this. A major university in our supposedly liberal and diverse San Francisco / Oakland / San Jose Bay Area gets an "F" -- a "F" grade -- in minority hiring.

What the heck is going on down there? For San Jose State to receive an "F" grade means in part that they didn't even take time to work with the BCA Survey administrators, not to mention a total lack of minority coaches. Wow. I guess one can infer from this that San Jose State doesn't care. I'll bet it's easy for them to go out and locate a black fullback, right? This is all about stereotypes and how powerful a role they play in our society. The still new athletic director down there is Tom Bowen, whom I met when he worked at Cal Berkeley and was with the SF 49ers Foundation. I've even had cocktails with Bowen on several occasions.

Tom's a good man, so I'd like to think he's going to straighten this out. Hey, Tom. What's up dude?

"Urbantic": A Great New Community Website To Learn About Places and People

My friend Michael Bean, who's firm Forio Business Simulations hosts the Sports Business Simulations website, has developed an exciting new website called "Urbantic." It's at http://urbantic.com

The idea behind Urbantic is very simple: to allow people to learn about places and people. It's kind of a cross between community sites like Ryze and Friendster and your common restaurant or city review website. All you do is set up a profile on yourself and type in comments about your favorite places.

You will then see a list of other favorite places posted by others than are near that venue. You can also see who's going to those places, and an automatic Google map of the location of the destination is visible. In other words, anyone who may have made a comment about that place will be added to a list associated with that venue along with a location map. It's really cool.

"Places" can be neighborhoods, bus stops, transit statiions, bars, ...you name it. It's a pretty habit forming device. Check it out. I think it's going to become a very huge place to be online.

For example, there's actually a review of the Oakland Coliseum.