Maryland football head coach Mike Locksley announced the launch of the National Coalition of Minority Football Coaches, a group focused on helping minorities climb the coaching ranks, Thursday.
There is an overwhelming lack of diversity in leadership across collegiate athletics, which I explored in depth for Yahoo Sports earlier this summer. The non-profit organization aims to combat this through a grooming process that will prepare, promote and produce qualified minority coaches. This way, Locksley told me last month, there will be a viable list of minority candidates whenever a position opens up.
“When I took the Maryland job last year and looked at the landscape of college football, I thought to myself, There’s something missing.