Lions to meet with NFL's diversity committee

[The_Philster]

(March 3, 2003 8:45 p.m. EST) - The Detroit Lions will meet with the NFL's diversity committee Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla., to discuss the process that led to the hiring of Steve Mariucci last month.

Committee chairman and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney said the club's process "fell short" of committee guidelines, which call for teams to interview at least one minority candidate for coaching vacancies.

Mariucci was the only person interviewed for the job. The Lions maintain five minority candidates turned down interviews because it appeared inevitable that Mariucci would be hired.

Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and attorneys Cyrus Mehri and Johnnie Cochran Jr. also have criticized the Lions for their hiring process....more

[qcsabresfan84]

I think this is a load of crap. They wanted Steve Mariucci, what's so wrong with that? Why should a team have to pretend to want an african-american guy when they already know who they want to coach. No one is raising a fuss that the Lions didn't interview any other white guys.