nick saban, pete carroll. are there barriers at college level preventing coaches a shot in the nfl? that s a great point. you described you offered a lovely description of the time it s taken for blacks to get leadership positions in the nfl in the intro. the college numbers are worse. have been worse, have always been worse. so, because that is a pipeline into the nfl, if we don t address that problem, we re not going to really get the solution we want to get. what s been interesting is that the rooney rule has been effective there as well, in a different way. the ncaa itself has denied has resisted, i should say, efforts to get it to use a rooney rule type concept. the division 1-a athletic directors association, it s own group, led by a guy named dutch bowman at the time, has instituted best practice among