Tongy Dungy and Lovie Smith are the head coaches of the two Super Bowl teams. They are both African American. It seems to be fairly apparent that African Americans can be successful NFL head coaches. Caucasian Americans are also among the elite from Shanahan (although he's better with #7 under center), Cowher, Belichick, Holmgren, etc. So, you don't have to be African American to coach in the NFL, which is predominantly (I heard 70% somewhere) African American players.
One of the panelists on First and 10 this morning said that the NFL still has a long way to go because the percentage of African American coaches doesn't mirror the percentage of African American players in the league. The question that must be evaluated is what should the expected percentage of African American coaches be? We all know that the best players don't always make the best coaches. That isn't to say that some great players won't be successful as coaches, but there are guys like Charlie Weis who didn't even play college football who have become hot commodities. More likely than not, the percentage of coaches should probably closely mirror the percentage of people growing up playing, watching and loving football.
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