And who can you trust more than a family member?Īll three of Ferentz's sons played football at Iowa. Their teams were comprised of 45% Black players, 37% white and 18% from other groups.Ĭoaches tend to carefully craft and protect the culture of their programs, so they are apt to hire people they know and trust. “We can plow our resources into developing minority coaches, but if the top decision-makers are set on hiring family members all the training and advocacy in the world won’t get one of my members that position."Īccording to the latest data compiled by the NCAA, 79% of head coaches at Power Five conference schools during the 2020 football season were white, 15% were Black and the rest were from other minority groups. “I don’t think anyone can debate that,” said attorney Raj Kudchadkar, the group's executive director. Nepotism is a significant factor in why Black coaches are under-represented in major college football, according to the National Coalition of Minority Football Coaches, which was founded by Locksley in 2020 to prepare and advocate for minority coaches at all levels of football. This private life, work life is so intertwined in the game of football and even in it’s hiring practices when you see the number of nepotism hires and the affiliations. Usually when you work somewhere you go home and it’s done.
“It’s corporate, but it is very familial.
"The industry of football that we’re part of is so different from corporate," said Maryland coach Mike Locksley, who is Black. It also includes Purdue, where coach Jeff Brohm has brothers as offensive coordinator and chief of staff. Of those, 22 involved white coaches, including at Iowa where coach Kirk Ferentz’s son, Brian, is the offensive coordinator.
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