People of color need to start shopping and buying at institutions that value, promote and reflect inclusion and diversity. Student-athletes of color need to start making decisions to play where it is most likely they will have a fair and equitable opportunity to coach.
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It represents an excellent basketball coach who happens to be a person of color and this also represents something that is unique, that he has replaced another coach of color.Floyd Keith
My sense is that the efforts being made by athletic directors (to interview and hire black candidates) have been more timely and complete. There is an improvement. ... But at the end of the day you have to be objective and measure this in wins and losses, and that's a bittersweet perspective. Hiring two coaches and increasing your total 66 just underscores how much distance we have to go.
Floyd Keith
These guys are all capable candidates in some way, shape or form for some DivisionI institution.
Floyd Keith
You'd have to take an individual search, an individual process, and there would have to be an individual case that would warrant that. An affirmative action policy would have to be involved (and disregarded by the school).
Floyd Keith
They happened to fine people for grade deficiencies and fine people in Title IX cases. So if there is a true inequity in a racial aspect, I guess you could (levy fines). You have to have some legal teeth.
Floyd Keith
We don't give favoritism just because an African-American was hired at the institution. That wouldn't qualify for what we're trying to do (by assessing the hiring process, not the outcome). That search probably could have been done better.
Floyd Keith
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