Bob Knight's Latest Comments about College Officials

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by cmathews

yes and that is wrong, some very smart and influential people worked to make it so that didn't happen any more.

Just so you know, it still happens where people of certain races cannot get any significant opportunities even in places where they are by far the majority. I just saw report on contracting in the Chicago area and the stats of people of color not getting opportunities despite being the population majority.

Originally Posted by cmathews

Using race or gender as a hiring factor, by definition excludes people who are not of that race or gender.....thereby making it discriminatory and socially wrong....however I don't live in a vacuum I know it happens, it will continue to happen, and it will affect both genders and all races at some point. I just have a problem with it when it appears to be a double standard.

I guess schools like Florida A&M or Grambling St. should not hire African-American teachers and faculty because that would be excluding Caucasian and Hispanic teachers from opportunities. Forget that facts the vast majority of their students are African-American or the mission of the schools are to give opportunity to African-Americans where they have not been allowed in other parts of the education system.

BTW, the two conferences these schools are members of seem to have the vast majority of their officials in at least Football and Basketball is African-American. I have seen Caucasian and Hispanic officials work games in very rare cases, but I would not on the surface want to not accurately represent the officials and different than the players, coaches, fans and administration. BTW, the only female official to ever work the NCAA Men's Tournament, came from the SWAC Conference. So let us not act as if there is complete equality already in hiring. I am sure there are female officials perfectly capable to work the Men's game but that does not happen for the most obvious reasons. Why is that OK but when you put race into that factor it is not OK? Just something to think about I guess.

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