Involved in a bit of a scandal at UW, Rick Neuheisel is now having a hard time getting a job.
“It has tarnished me and made it difficult for me to get an interview in the open marketplace,” Neuheisel told The Associated Press.
Oh… so Rick Neuheisel has gotten a small taste of what it’s like to be a black head coaching candidate, then. I’m sorry, but I can’t muster a lot of sympathy for a guy who had his shot, blew it by gambling on college athletics, and now has to wait his turn to get back in. Not when there are, what, 3 black head coaches in Division IA football?
I’m going to have a hard time feeling too bad for Rick Neuheisel. And his complaining, to me, just seems like whining. There are a ton of guys out there who want jobs and can’t get them, and they have clean records. They didn’t gamble on college sports, they didn’t lie about it, they don’t pose a public relations nightmare to any school that hires them, and they’re not in the media asking for sympathy. They just happen to be black. So suck it up, Rick, take a job as head coach of the Southeastern Milwaukee Fighting Woodchucks, prove you can run a clean program, and then maybe you can be Tyrone Willingham’s assistant for a while.
