Black NFL head coaches regularly perform about as well as White NFL head coaches yet face significant hurdles to getting and keeping their jobs, according to a Washington Post analysis published ...

It’s a far cry from the 2006 season, when the NFL seemingly had a huge breakthrough. There were seven Black head coaches that year, and two of them met in the Super Bowl for the first time ever.

Sanders, who left Jackson State for Colorado of the Pac-12 Conference, was one of just three Black head coaches hired by Football Bowl Subdivision schools in the recently completed cycle for the ...

It was as meaningful as it was stunning, given that the NFL’s first Black Super Bowl–winning head coach, Tony Dungy, accomplished that feat nearly two decades earlier.

There are two Black head coaches Atlantic Coast Conference, with Dino Babers at Syracuse and Tony Elliott at Virginia. Among Pac-12 schools, the only other Black coach is Deion Sanders.

In the 155 years since the 1st college football game there's never been a Black head coach in the Championship, until this years winner of the Notre Dame Penn State Game.

Of the 21 positions in Lee County, 10 have Black head coaches filling the role (47.6%). In Collier County, there's not a single Black head coach.

More than a third of Black NFL players who responded to questions from the AP about the state of Black head coaches around the league were discouraged or disappointed by the current numbers.