Roundtable: Why Isn’t There More Black College Basketball Head Coaches?

Jeff Goodman sent a direct message to Coach K and the elite coaches in college basketball. It’s time to fix the disparity between white and black coaches in the NCAA.

Goodman hosted a roundtable on his CLNS Media Good N Plenty Podcast to discuss the representation issue. Black head coaches led only 18% of programs in college basketball’s top six conferences entering last season, 13% without the Big East.

“We don’t have that big voice, that has (spoken out) at the highest level,” Goodman said. “Why aren’t Coach K, why aren’t Calipari, why do we have to wait for black head coaches right now to come out and say that there needs to be more black head coaches? Why can’t the white head coaches come…