The Big East remains a leader in coaching equity: Seven of its 11 men’s basketball programs are led by Black men, the only power conference where the African American player majority is reflected in the coaches guiding them, says mikefreemanNFL
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See, the Big East remains a leader in coaching equity: Seven of its 11 men’s basketball programs are led by Black men, the only power conference where the African American player majority is reflected in the coaches guiding them.At the start of this season, just two coaches in the 14-team Southeastern Conference were Black, along with two in the 10-team Big 12 and four in the 14-team Big Ten. Perhaps most startlingly, the Pac-12 Conference has zero Black men’s basketball head coaches.
Cooley, 53, is the dean of Big East coaches, vying for consecutive conference titles one year after going 27-6 and reaching the Sweet 16 for the first time. At the other end of the spectrum is Kyle Neptune, a longtime Villanova assistant hired to replace the venerated Jay Wright, even though Neptune had just one season as a head coach, at Fordham.
“The Big East is a good example of what it could be,” says Neptune, joined by Seton Hall's Shaheen Holloway in the ranks of rookie Big East coaches. “Our society’s not perfect right now, but I like the fact that the Big East is on the forefront and the cutting edge of what’s going on right now.”'Overwhelmingly white'
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