Bottom line you have decided to attach race as an argument of Culley’s situation.Cameron Giles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:50 amAgain, I have not said that a coach was fired because they were black, or that a coach should be hired purely because they are black.Ice wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:05 am Bottom line: Hiring a coach or firing a coach because of skin color is bad. Saying it is bad optics for the Texans to do it is nuts. Go blame the Dolphins since they just fired one of the best coaches in the league who may actually end up in Houston.
News flash if he goes to Houston it won't be because he is black; It will be because of a past relationship with the the GM who has consolidated his power and knows he is actually a qualified candidate who the vast majority would probably consider an upgrade.
Beating the racist drum is getting really old. Will the league do better than 5 minority head coaches last year in the future???? Maybe but so many getting on a soap box every time a minority gets fired seems like a White/Black thing which is pretty sad IMO.
Yes racists exists and that is bad but thinking Culley's firing is bad optics, whatever that means, is silly. It is bad optics when one believes he was fired for one single reason.
I don't understand why you keep bringing that up like anyone has said so.
The point is that a black coach got a job in a shitty situation, where the team went into it knowing that there was a high chance that he would not be the coach beyond a season or at best two. You have echoed the same thing a few pages back. Culley never had a legitimate chance to be their long-term coach.
Again, I don't think he was hired or fired because he is black. I think there are logical reasons to want to upgrade your coach if you are the Texans. However, that doesn't change the fact that they put him in a shitty situation, in a league where black HCs and black front office executives already struggle to get HC jobs. The quality of job was poor and offered no long-term security. It's bad optics for a league that has poor representation at HC and in the front office for a league where the majority of players are black.
You mentioned earlier that (paraphrase): Well, it's still a win for him, because he made money and he'll keep a job in the NFL going forward. Culley is 66 years old. He's been a HC in the NFL since 1994 and has been coaching overall since the 70s. There's a strong likelihood that he will never get another HC job in the NFL after waiting 27 years to get one.
Asking "why does everything have to be about race" is an effortless thought for those who don't empathize for the people who are actually affected by issues that have to do with their race. I'm not accusing you of that, but it's a poor question when there's an obvious and clear answer explained by multiple decades of history in the NFL.
My intent was never to make this a drawn out discussion, but only to rightfully acknowledge that it is a part of the story of his firing and a cyclical issue in the NFL.
Not sure of your agenda here but without question you have an agenda, if nothing else to talk about by inference in blaming owners, history, or White people. Not sure which.
The coaching carrousel is the wrong platform so feel free to continue on without me!
Wow. That's crazy. Almost like he was trying to lose his job. If this is true, it's almost certain that he had no belief in Tua, and knowing the front office did, he felt he had to get out. I mean, resigning at years end would have been the professional way to go, but who knows. Food for thought, though.
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