In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement that captivated the world last year, Mike Locksley took time to look at himself in the mirror.
Locksley was living his dream job as the University of Maryland football coach, and yet when he looked around other colleges and the NFL, he saw nonwhite football coaches like himself struggling to get jobs or make the right connections.
Locksley grew tired of talking about the issue and wanted to start paving the way for the next generation of minority coaches. So, he reached out to people like Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, University of Alabama coach Nick Saban and Baltimore Ravens executive vice president Ozzie Newsome and launched the National Coalition of Minority Football Coaches.