Some NCAA schools get high marks from black coaches group
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The Black Coaches Association still wants more minority hires in college football. But the group&#39;s new report card finds that most Division I schools are increasing their efforts to include minorities in the search process.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- In years past, a 20-win season was a pretty good indicator of Boston College's chances of earning a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Twenty wins and you're in.
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It wasn't hard for college basketball coaches to get to know NCAA president Myles Brand. He went and met them.
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An increasing number of menâs basketball programs are looking to make the transition to Division I and acquire all the rewards and struggles that come with it.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - They emerged from the locker room sporadically. Some, mainly the underclassmen, headed to a group of waiting buses. Others, mainly the seniors who had helped produce 39 wins in four years, the most over that span in Boston College history, took their time, savoring every moment.
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Like most of his peers, Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser wants more than victories from his early schedule.
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On one bench, that of Boston College, there was a high-scoring offense, plenty of experience, and one of the top power plays in the nation. On the other, that of UMass-Lowell, was a roster filled with youth and inexperience but teeming with determination.
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The nation's most elite colleges and universities are bolstering their black student populations by enrolling large numbers of immigrants from Africa, the West Indies and Latin America, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Education.
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Dean Smith never seemed comfortable with all the attention that came with becoming the winningest men's basketball coach in Division I history. That's why the former North Carolina coach didn't sound too broken up about preparing to hand that mark to Bob Knight.
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To make sure his unbeaten basketball team brought the proper attitude into its game against unheralded High Point, Maryland coach Gary Williams drew up a list of this season's upsets.
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Dave Odom, the basketball coach at the University of South Carolina, was in Atlanta yesterday, watching potential future college players at an AAU tournament.
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Winning breeds respect. That's the message the Boston College women's basketball team received yesterday, when the Eagles, coming off their first Big East Conference championship, were selected to finish third this season in a preseason poll of the league's coaches.
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NCAA Division I universities fared better this year in considering minority football coaching candidates, the Black Coaches Association said Thursday.
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The NFL's rule that at least one minority candidate be interviewed for each head coaching vacancy is the reason there are now a record seven black head coaches, six more than 16 years ago, the author of several sports diversity studies said Thursday.
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The low number of minorities coaching in college football reflects a lack of diversity among college and conference leaders, according to a University of Central Florida study released Wednesday.
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The lack of black head coaches in college football was lamented in powerful language Wednesday by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, NCAA president Myles Brand and congressmen from both parties.
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The people who pushed the NFL into a successful minority hiring effort are now turning their attention to the NCAA.