[QUOTE="CUT93, post: 4050272, member: 4060"]I just don't buy the fact that racism is a significant reason there are not more black D1 coaches. I think it is more likely that there is a smaller pool of qualified black candidates. Maybe that has to do with race somewhere lower down the food chain where black coaches are not given the opportunity at lower levels and don't develop some of the skills needed to run a program, I really don't know. I think we are seeing more and more that being a successful D1 coach is as much about, or more, about management than it is about x/o knowledge. If there are less black candidates that have been given the opportunity to manage a program at lower levels, it would shrink the candidate pool of coaches qualified to do it at the D1 level. Also, I am sure there are isolated cases where there are AD's who are racist, that is just a fact. There are racist people in every occupation that exists. To think they don't exist in AD's is ignorant. I am not arguing that the percentage of black head coaches is not too small, I just don't think race is the reason at the D1 level. Too much pressure to win at that level to be bypassing the best candidate because he is black.