Ironically I saw this posted yesterday before the news about matt patricia broke:
It highlights the higher standards that a black head coach has to live up to
This narrative went to its next level with news that new Lions head coach Matt Patricia was indicted for sexual assault in ’96 but never prosecuted due to the victim’s refusal to testify.
The real thing that stands out to me in this matter is the fact that the Detroit Lions did not seem to do their due diligence in researching this coaches background.
According to their own statement:
Coach Patricia was subject to a standard Pre-employment background check which did not disclose this issue.
Now if this was the case for any and all nfl employee’s on field players and coaches cool…BUT we all know that for incoming rookies from the college draft they are subject to full FBI type investigation and subsequent interviews!!!
New NFL policy requires prospects to authorize background checks
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...ires-prospects-to-authorize-background-check/
Before the NFL can determine whether draft prospects should be barred from the Scouting Combine or other league-related draft events for certain criminal offenses, the NFL must be able to make that determination. Before the NFL can make that determination, the NFL must be able to investigate the prospect.
Before that can happen, the prospect must provide authorization to the NFL during the Scouting Combine registration process. If the prospect refuses to provide authorization, the prospect’s invitation to participate in the Scouting Combine will be revoked, according to the memo sent on January 25 to all team presidents, General Managers and coaches.
As a practical matter, players will gladly sign whatever paperwork they need to sign in order to participate in the Scouting Combine. Still, the mandatory background check represents yet another thing that is required of players as part of a lengthy pre-employment process that, via the Combine, provides plenty of free entertainment and TV content for the NFL.
The new policy applies to all felony or misdemeanor convictions, and it broadly encompasses any conviction “involving violence,” with specific citation to crimes involving the “use of a weapon, domestic violence, sexual offense and/or sexual assault.”
So for kids coming out of college (mostly black) they require this in-depth and ‘lengthy pre-employment process’ But for a head coach it’s just a standard check.
Colonizer
It highlights the higher standards that a black head coach has to live up to
This narrative went to its next level with news that new Lions head coach Matt Patricia was indicted for sexual assault in ’96 but never prosecuted due to the victim’s refusal to testify.
The real thing that stands out to me in this matter is the fact that the Detroit Lions did not seem to do their due diligence in researching this coaches background.
According to their own statement:
Coach Patricia was subject to a standard Pre-employment background check which did not disclose this issue.
Now if this was the case for any and all nfl employee’s on field players and coaches cool…BUT we all know that for incoming rookies from the college draft they are subject to full FBI type investigation and subsequent interviews!!!
New NFL policy requires prospects to authorize background checks
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...ires-prospects-to-authorize-background-check/
Before the NFL can determine whether draft prospects should be barred from the Scouting Combine or other league-related draft events for certain criminal offenses, the NFL must be able to make that determination. Before the NFL can make that determination, the NFL must be able to investigate the prospect.
Before that can happen, the prospect must provide authorization to the NFL during the Scouting Combine registration process. If the prospect refuses to provide authorization, the prospect’s invitation to participate in the Scouting Combine will be revoked, according to the memo sent on January 25 to all team presidents, General Managers and coaches.
As a practical matter, players will gladly sign whatever paperwork they need to sign in order to participate in the Scouting Combine. Still, the mandatory background check represents yet another thing that is required of players as part of a lengthy pre-employment process that, via the Combine, provides plenty of free entertainment and TV content for the NFL.
The new policy applies to all felony or misdemeanor convictions, and it broadly encompasses any conviction “involving violence,” with specific citation to crimes involving the “use of a weapon, domestic violence, sexual offense and/or sexual assault.”
So for kids coming out of college (mostly black) they require this in-depth and ‘lengthy pre-employment process’ But for a head coach it’s just a standard check.
Colonizer
