Skip Bayless Says White Owners Uncomfortable Socializing W/ Black Coaches, So They Don’t Hire Them

The NFL has a genuine concern with representation in the head training ranks … and Skip Bayless says he understands why — old, white NFL owners simply aren’t comfy fraternizing Black coaches and their partners.

“These older white owners just aren’t that comfortable with a Black head coach because they need to interact, they need to go to dinner with the wives or the [significant others] or whatever,” Bayless stated on FS1’s “Undisputed” today while talking about 53-year-old Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy‘s failure to land a gig as HC.

“[White owners are] just not that comfortable. When they do have an interview, it’s gonna be a quicker click with a young white hot candidate.”

Of course, the NFL just has 4 Black head coaches … Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh, Todd Bowles in Tampa Bay, freshly worked with DeMeco Ryans in Houston and Mike McDaniel in Miami.

Despite a bulk of the gamers in the league being Black, individuals of color have actually long had actually concerns getting worked with, specifically as head coaches.

The NFL has actually set up standards like the “Rooney Rule” — determining front workplaces need to talk to a minority prospect prior to making a hire.

Still, just 4 of the 32 groups include a Black guy in the leading task, and it does not appear vhange is on the horizon.

As for how to repair the glaring concern, Bayless confesses might not be a repairable issue … ’cause, how do you alter how the owners believe?

“It’s simply culture, it’s simply the method life is. And I wear’t understand how to beat it, since each of these people is an independent owner in the umbrella of the NFL and it’s hard to enact laws ‘you need to hire a black coach’”

“You can’t unless it’s in the guy’s heart to do the best thing, and every when in a while we have the Rooneys in Pittsburgh who did the best thing.”