Brian Flores's class-action suit against the NFL has once again brought racial discrimination in coach hiring to the forefront. AndrewBrandt goes over the history of the Rooney Rule, the sham interview dilemma, and more on the suit
On Tuesday afternoon, I was teaching my sports law and business class at Villanova Law School. The subject of the day was the changing nature of college athletics and the sea change due to the Alston case and
A defining feature of plaintiffs in sports law is personal sacrifice to serve the greater good, sacrificing future careers to help those of people who will follow. Examples include Curt Flood, John Mackey and, yes, Colin Kaepernick. We can nowFlores likely understands what so many have commented on since his firing: That bringing such a case is potentially terminal to his NFL coaching career. First of all, I am not so sure: never is a very long time.
in which Bill Belichick, thinking he was texting Brian Daboll , revealed that the Giants had made up their mind on Daboll before interviewing Flores.This issue is a tough one. Owners often lock in on a candidate and get singularly focused in their dogged pursuit of that coach. This certainly happened with the Raiders and Jon Gruden a few years ago, and perhaps with the Raiders and Josh McDaniels this time around. It is rumored to have happened a year ago with the Jaguars and Urban Meyer.
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