The recent team that has been in the media for violations of the Rooney rule is the Oakland Raiders. The Oakland Raiders hired Jon Gruden prior to interviewing other candidates for the head coaching position. The General Manager and other influential people in the organization met with Jon Gruden in late December to …show more content…
The policy set out to strive as a tool to help minorities navigate to head coaching positions in the national football league is not being taken serious and teams like the Oakland raiders are getting away with violation of the policy. The commissioner Roger Goodell need to act upon this lack of diversity and failure to pursue affirmative action in the national football league because if one team think they can violate and not follow the rule soon many other franchise will do the same. The rule has affected the sports industry in an unethical way because the qualified minority applicants are not receiving and granted the positions they deserve for their hard work. The Oakland Raiders need to be granted a hefty fine for violation of the rule and the commissioner of the league needs to assure that actions like this does not occur