Bullseye’s main point is a good one. It is unreasonable that someone like McCown (and others) get these opportunities over much more qualified candidates who happen to be ethnic minorities.  I’m not sure why that is. I suspect it is because when you’re hiring for the most important, upper positions in your company, you’re looking for a level of comfortableness that includes they talk and sound and look like me. I think that probably an unconscious bias. But it is a bias nonetheless.

On the other hand, for a small number of the candidates it may be that the way they verbally present themselves hinders them. The example I’m thinking of is when I have heard Eric Bieniemy speaking on miked up tape. I don’t think that should be a barrier. He’s obviously very well qualified. But that same hindrance is not there for someone like Flores or Leftwich or Caldwell or Morris or any number of the other coaches.

In 2022 we would like to think that this kind of garbage no longer exists. But apparently it does exist in some of the highest reaches of corporate life. Anything that is based on ethnic bias, either way, any way, is completely out of bounds and has no place in our society.

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