(Arizona Daily Star/Mike Christy)
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.
ASU study shows that college football lags behind NFL when it comes to hiring Black football coaches
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.
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