Conversations about racial justice and inequality continue to take place throughout sports, and a new study out of Arizona State shows college football is lacking when it comes to hiring people of color to head coaching positions.
Last month, ASU’s Global Sports Institute published a new paper, “Field Studies: A 10-Season Snapshot of NCAA Power Five Head Coaching Hires,” which analyzes coaching hiring and firing trends in college football.
The numbers are jarring: Between the 2009-18 football seasons, 111 head coaches left Power Five football programs. Nearly 90% of those coaches were white, as were 80% of the coaches hired to replace them, the study shows.