When Karl Dorrell was fired earlier this week, the dearth of minority head football coaches became even more significant. Presently, there are five coaches of color leading Football Bowl Subdivision programs.

The merry-go-round of hirings and firings has become commonplace each fall, yet we haven???t seen any progress with regard to minorities climbing the ladder. Within Division I, more than 45 percent of football student-athletes are African-American, but there are only nine black coaches out of 231 programs (FBS and FCS). Does that seem right?

And with salaries continuing to escalate, are athletics departments going to hire less-experienced African-American coaches for seven-figure contracts, or are they going to go back to those who have successfully led programs before? Do the high salaries make universities more adverse to the risk of hiring an unknown and maybe less experienced coach? If black coaches can???t get that head coaching experience needed for the big jobs and the big salaries, how are they ever going to get in the mix?

Reports are coming out of Tallahassee that Jimbo Fisher will be the next head football coach at Florida State once Bobby Bowden steps down. That???s great news for Fisher, who likely deserves a shot to lead the program. But has Florida State even considered the possibility that another coach, possibly a minority coach, could take the helm?

Traditional media never discusses the fact that athletics departments are marching to the beat of their own hiring drums. The April 23 edition of The NCAA News asked if athletics is part of the campus, why would it follow anything but institutional hiring policies?

We???ve been discussing changes to hiring processes for years now, yet schools still continue to hire the biggest names out there without conducting thorough searches. If universities refuse to change their processes, will we ever see equity?