NEW YORK (AP) -Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy calls the dearth of minority head coaches in major college football “disgraceful.”
Dungy became the first black coach to win a Super Bowl in 2007 with the Indianapolis Colts. Now an analyst with NBC’s pregame show, Dungy said on the program Sunday night that minority coaches believe they have more opportunity for advancement in the pros than in college.
Of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision coaches, just nine are minorities – and only Miami’s Randy Shannon is at a BCS school. Six of the 32 coaches in the NFL are black.
Dungy met last month with NCAA officials and has offered his help on the issue. He calls on school presidents “to step up and say, ‘We’re going to do the right thing.”’
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