Pep Hamilton interviewed?

[Zalsa]

Stanford OC interviewed for HC job. I take it this is for Helfrich to get the HC position?

 

[santeesioux]

http://www.indystar.com/article/201...sive-coordinator-fill-vacancy-?nclick_check=1

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

By state law the U has to interview a minority for appearances sake before they hire Helfrich.

 

[MickZagger]

By state law the U has to interview a minority for appearances sake before they hire Helfrich.

By state law? I call bullshit on that one.

 

[Natebishop3]

By state law? I call bullshit on that one.

Nope. Some jerkhole got it put on the ballot and voted through a few years back. You seriously haven't heard of this before?

 

[MickZagger]

Nope. Some jerkhole got it put on the ballot and voted through a few years back. You seriously haven't heard of this before?

I've heard of it in the NFL as something that Johnny Cochrane got passed. But I've never heard of it as a state law.

 

[Natebishop3]

Promoting Helfrich without interviewing a qualified minority candidate -- or, at least making a good-faith attempt to find a qualified minority candidate -- would be against the law in Oregon.

Oregon's diversity law applies to the hiring of head coaches in all sports and athletic directors in all of Oregon's public universities.

Sam Sachs, the Portland activist who led the successful fight for the law, said university administrators can't ignore it by asserting they must make a quick, emergency hire because, say, they might lose a recruiting class.

"They still have to interview a qualified minority candidate," Sachs said.

To which I say, good for Sachs. And good for the Oregon Senate, which passed the bill into law unanimously in 2009 -- Democrats joining Republicans, conservatives joining liberals, rural senators joining urban senators.

http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2012/12/goe_if_oregon_ducks_have_chip.html