For more than 30 years, the NFL has helped organize the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship program, which seeks to increase the number of minority coaches in the league and sports in general.
The program allows qualified candidates to observe, participate and gain experience at training camps, offseason workout programs and minicamps. Every team is encouraged to participate, and I was fortunate enough to speak with one of this year’s participants for the Las Vegas Raiders, Isaac Parker.
Parker is in his third season as the head football coach at the prestigious Willamette University, a program that produced nothing but elite athletes like yours truly.