INDIANAPOLIS
NCAA Division I universities fared better this year in considering minority football coaching candidates, the Black Coaches Association said Thursday.
Now the BCA wants those universities to hire more minority coaches and produce more representative search committees.
The third annual report card showed mixed results. While a record 12 of the 26 Division I-A and I-AA schools received overall grades of A, a record six schools also received F’s.
Three of those with A’s — The University at Buffalo, Columbia University and Southeast Missouri State University — hired Black head football coaches. Kansas State University, which also hired a Black coach, received a B.
Five of the schools with failing marks did not return their report to the BCA, resulting in automatic F’s. The other school was Division I-AA Missouri State University.
“This year’s grades are better in some areas than the first two years but worse than ever in other areas,” wrote Dr. Richard E. Lapchick, head of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.
