All- Just got my Atlantic Mo. in the mail yesterday. Under the Primary Sources section is the following report by Mr. Johnnie Cochran and U. Penn labor economist Janice Madden:
"Dr. Madden determined that: the black coaches [over the last fifteen years] averaged 1.1 more wins per season than the white coaches; the black coaches led their teams to the playoffs 67% of the time verses 39% of the time for white coaches....." -- "Black coaches in the NFL: Superior Performance, Inferior Opportunities." (www.findjustice.com/ms/nfl/indextext.html) You can't make me believe that with the amount of money at stake in the NFL that team owners are systematically indulging racial preferences. No way. Racial preference indulgence takes place at the level of team janitor, not head coach. To suggest otherwise flies in the face of modern economic theory. Help me out. Can this data be accurate? Suspect I'm sure considering who's behind it. But on the other hand, it seems that it would be difficult to fudge. Supposing it is true, is there any other explanation for this phenomenon? -Bill P.S. - Both black coaches in the NFL (Tony Dungee and Herman Edwards) led their teams to playoffs this year..... William M. Butterfield Analyst MultiState Assoc. Inc. Phone: (703) 684-1110 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
