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The race- and gender-related hiring practices of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's member institutions have received a C grade in this year's College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card, issued by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida. That is the worst grade ever issued by the institute, which began creating the reports in 2001.
The report card notes declines in the hiring of women and people of color in nearly every major profession in college athletics. The report's grade for gender hiring fell from a B in 2012 to a C- in 2014. Its grade for racial hiring fell from a B to a C+. For the 2014 season, only 22 percent of men’s Division I basketball coaches were African-American (down from 23 percent) and 23.8 percent were coaches of color (down from 24.8 percent). Less than 10 percent of Division I athletic directors are women. The number of head football coaches of color in the Football Bowl Subdivision decreased from 15 in 2013 to 14 at the start of the 2014 season. About 90 percent of the coaches were white. All FBS conference commissioners in 2014 were white men.
“It was extremely discouraging that this year’s CSRGRC showed further deep overall declines," Richard Lapchick, director of TIDES and the primary author of the report, said in a statement. "The drop in the race and gender grades emphasized an area of continuing and alarming concern."
