2 Black NFL Head Coaches to Superbowl XLI!!!

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

I still don't see any problem with the Croom situation. Both were position coaches who were pretty mediocre as NFL coordinators. You're an SEC person, so you know the importance of having a big name coach if you're a big name team. Alabama was striking out when the hiring took place, and Shula is a much bigger name than Croom. Of course to really get into this I'd have to talk about how important looking good is to UA, but the point is fairly obvious. In that situation they wanted the biggest coach they can get, and Shula was a name that could keep the rebellion down. I don't think Croom is an inferior coach, but I doubt he'd do any better at UA. After all, they won 10 games last year and Shula still got fired. Plus, if they had hired Croom PC may have mandated they give him more time than Bama prefers to give coaches.

Oh, not getting picked to coach at Alabama is it's own reward if you ask me, for a lot of different reasons. But Croom had incredible ties to the university, so I think there were reasons they could have gone with him too. If you haven't looked at the wikipedia entry about Croom, I encourage you to look at it.

My general point is that it hasn't really been that long since people were openly (and as far as state law, legally) discriminated against, like Alabama six years before Croom; and it's nice to look at the progress and celebrate it.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

My general point is that it hasn't really been that long since people were openly (and as far as state law, legally) discriminated against, like Alabama six years before Croom; and it's nice to look at the progress and celebrate it.

There you have it. Although, I know that open discrimination is not a thing of the past.

Yes, folks are focusing on the teams as they do in any other superbowl but I won't pretend that the black coaches won't also be watched (and not only by blacks who are proud of this accomplishment).

I wonder if Tom Earp will rush into a thread talking about the superbowl halftime act and inform people that we should focus on the teams and not the extranneous stuff.