Quote (KrWWW @ Jan 11 2018 03:49pm)
NFL officially now looking into Raiders’ head coach hiring process and whether they violated the Rooney Rule, per league official.
Quote (ShogunExplosion @ Jan 11 2018 04:01pm)
What is the penalty for violating the Rooney rule?
In 2003, the NFL fined the Detroit Lions
$200,000 for failure to interview African-American candidates for the team's vacant head coaching job. After Marty Mornhinweg was fired, the Lions immediately hired former San Francisco 49ers head coach Steve Mariucci (a native of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) to replace him without interviewing any other candidates. The Lions claimed they attempted to interview other candidates but that the African-American candidates withdrew from interviews, believing Mariucci's hiring was inevitable.[18]
