define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); african-american coaches – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:42:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court As Minority Head Coaches Decline Elsewhere, the SEC Sets the Standard http://rushthecourt.net/2013/02/27/as-minority-head-coaches-decline-elsewhere-the-sec-sets-the-standard/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/02/27/as-minority-head-coaches-decline-elsewhere-the-sec-sets-the-standard/#respond Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:45:47 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=91581

Brian Joyce is a writer for the SEC microsite and regular contributor for Rush The Court. Follow him on Twitter for more about SEC basketball at bjoyce_hoops.

Twenty-five years ago, Tennessee broke the color barrier in the SEC when it hired Wade Houston as the first African-American head coach in the conference. Today, the SEC is a model for other conferences around college basketball. In an era where minority, and specifically African-American coaches, are not given the benefit of the doubt in hiring decisions and are given the hook far too quickly in times of trouble, doing the right thing isn’t always easy. [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2013/02/27/as-minority-head-coaches-decline-elsewhere-the-sec-sets-the-standard/feed/ 0