WALSH: The Media Claims That The NFL Discriminates Against Black Coaches. The Facts Tell A Completely Different Story.

There has been a renewed panic this year over the supposed lack of black head coaches in the NFL. To be precise, this panic is renewed every year around this time, when the demographic make up of new coaching hires inevitably fall short of the media’s arbitrary expectations.

USA Today tells us that the NFL is “failing coaching candidates of color.” A column on Yahoo Sports laments that “black coaching hires” remain at a “dismal level.” We are not told precisely what the Black Coaching Level is supposed to be. The Washington Post reports that black coaches are suffering from a “denial of opportunity.” Professional Yeller Stephen A. Smith went into another of his patented spittle-flecked tantrums yesterday, screaming that the NFL has a serious “problem” and it’s “B.S.” and “black men are not being treated fairly” and so on and so forth.