Who thinks Charles Barkley plays the race card to much?
Good white coaches are often overlooked and bad white coaches are often picked. I am not sure why that is so, but owners make their selection of coaches based more on feeling than anything. I’m sure that race might play a part sometimes, but I don’t believe it is very often. Decision makers want to win more than they care about skin color. Coaches…black or white are seldom picked on pure qualifications. Gene Upshaw of the Raiders was hired as head coach of the Raiders over his white counterparts, though Upshaw was really not qualified. Al Davis said that he hired Upshaw not on qualifications, or skin color, but rather because he felt that Upshaw understood the true Raider philosophy. Upshaw turned out to be very mediocre, but the point is that coaches are usually picked on philosophies and other criteria, not always pure qualifications. Looking back, I think Upshaw was a good pick. Not because he was Black, but because Davis was willing to take a chance on his gut. The move didn’t pa
