BOL Round Table

"The number of minority coaches in N.C.A.A. Division I is declining."
"The Southeastern Conference, which includes universities in the South like Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina, is the only one of the six major Bowl Championship Series conferences that will have a majority of minority coaches next season in men’s basketball when the league expands to 14 teams by adding Texas A&M and Missouri."

"The former Georgetown coach John Thompson, an African-American coaching pioneer who led the Hoyas to success in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, says he is not surprised by the SEC numbers.
“It doesn’t surprise me that you’re seeing those numbers in the SEC, not at all,” Thompson said.
He said he had never believed that “the Deep South is worse than the North.”
He added: “The North has always profited from that perception, and it’s totally incorrect. In the South, there are certainly problems, but at least people are more conscious of those problems.”