ABSTRACT
The role of high school and college coaches has been afforded significant visibility and prominence within American Society. The coach is often viewed as a "father-figure" or "mother-figure", and mentor, teacher, academic advisor, or friend by the many student athletes who play for them. Clearly, the number of African American head coaches, especially in football, continues to lag behind. In 1975, Willie Jeffries became the first African American head football coach hired at a major white institution. The main contemporary obstacle facing African Americans is neither white racism, as many liberals claim, nor black genetic deficiency, as Charles Murray and others reply. The sport sociology literature clearly revealed that coaching in college sports is primarily a white domain. In an attempt to identify other variables impacting coaching career patterns, Banks and Grenfell and Freischlag studied the relationship between coaching career success and career paths by identifying the relationship between personal attributes and job responsibilities of coaches.
