(02-05-2022, 03:52 PM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(02-05-2022, 03:47 PM)SamusAranX Wrote: The Rooney rule did good but it’s being fleeced into infamy with the mock interviews franchises are doing. 

Changes need to be made. Keep the spirit but find a way to genuinely help the people it’s harming right now.

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Also, what if in a twist of irony we interview Wilson for the Rooney rule and end up hiring him?

The league would be much better off just putting some kind of monetary incentive on it.

Something like, for every person any team's coaching staff or in their front office who is white they pay into a league fund, and at the end of the season, that fund is split up evenly among the teams. That way the teams that do nothing but hire white guys end up having to pay out, while teams that hire a lot of minorities end up coming out ahead.

The problem with the Rooney Rule is it doesn't do anything to actually incentivize hiring of disadvantaged people, it just pays lip service to the effort.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."