Back in early April, the NFL announced plans to hold a seminar for a handful of prospective head coach and general manager candidates to help address the league's glaring problem in hiring minority candidates for those top positions.
The seminar is set to take place later this month at the annual spring owner's meeting later this month in Atlanta, and teams were asked to submit two candidates - one from the coaching side and one from the player personnel side - to attend the opportunity.
Beyond the networking aspect, part of the goal for the 64 in attendance will be to go through sessions and programs designed to help them further their education on the business side of football.
The main goal of the program is to get these minority candidates some face time with NFL decision makers at the highest level to develop connections.
Today, the NFL announced the names of those minority candidates that will be in attendance.
Most NFL teams nominated two candidates, but there were a few organizations who opted (for whatever reason) to not nominate someone on the coaching or GM side.
The candidates that will take part in the event are:
Stay tuned to The Scoop for the latest.
NFL announced the names of the minority coach/GM candidates who will attend next week’s owners meeting to network with team owners. Each team was asked to nominate two candidates - one from coaching staff, one from front office. pic.twitter.com/vT2rrCO46m
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