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BARRY COOPE
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As far as we can tell, all college football
coaches are created equal. But
somewhere along the way, thanks to
the American way of free enterprise,
the pendulum begins to favor those
coaches who:
a) are white.
b) coach at the biggest schools.
c) have teams that wins lots of
games.
Though that indeed is the American
way, it is not fair, especially when you
consider that onlv the men who meet
the above criteria make big money.
TT Grambling's Eddie Robinson, one of
the best coaches in the country, has not
made lots of money until recently
because he is not white and does not
coach at a very large school.
Never mind that in about two years
Robinson will have won more games
than any college coach ever has.
Never mind that another black
coach, Jackson State's W.C. Gorden,
consistently develops athletes who
become NFL stars.
Never mind that Florida A&M
Coach Rudy Hubbard became the first
coach to win the Division I-AA national
championship and is the only
black to win such a title.
Never mind that Mississippi Valley
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something of a genius when it comes to
devising high-powered offenses.
Despite all that, these men remain
far less marketable and earn considerably
less money than their
counterparts at larger schools.
Apparently, the only way to make
the really big bucks ~ and we're talking
$300,000 a year - is to strut the
sidelines at a big-time school,
preferably on national television.
Only then will the automakers come
running with big contracts, along with
athletic shoe cnmnaniec and fact fru-*d
chains.
a Okay, all you cynics out there may
be thinking something like this: If
small-college coaches want to make big
money, let them go to work for big
schools. Isn't that the American way?
Sure is. Except that big schools
aren't hirinct black head coaches. Most
of them are even reluctant to hire black
assistant coaches.
So if black coaches are to make a lot
of money coaching college football,
they'll have to do it on the smallcollege
level.
Because of shrewd marketing
strategies employed over the years,
Grambling's Robinson has become a
household name. But only now, at age
65, are endorsements and other moneymaking
opportunites starting to come
his way.
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