CNN —After his team’s first victory earlier this month, University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders said something remarkable.
He has entered one of the Whitest and most conservative institutions in America — college football — and excelled.
It’s no secret the league has had a poor record of hiring Black coaches.
Ron Jenkins/Getty ImagesHe’s brought an “audacious Blackness” to college football that’s revolutionary, one commentator says.
In many ways, the profession at this level has become welfare for white coaches.
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