New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton recently did a sit-down interview with NFL Network’s Steve Wyche. One of the topics discussed was hiring practices of head coaches and their staffs in the NFL, the current trends being to hire young, offensive-minded coaches. The topic of racial diversity was introduced by Payton in the interview as well.
One of the points Sean Payton made quickly in this interview was that GMs were going with trends in hiring rather than hiring perfectly good head coaches that didn’t match that. And he pointed that out as something that was hurting diversity in hiring.