DeMaurice Smith proposes alternatives to the Rooney Rule

Roger Goodell won't be laughing after he reads DeMaurice Smith's latest project.Smith, the outgoing executive director of the NFL Players Association, has co-authored an article that will appear in the next edition of the Yale Law and Policy Review. The article calls for the NFL to declare the Rooney Rule a failed experiment and to scrap it, with other specific measures implemented to improve hiring practices for coaches and other high-level employees. The Executive Summary of the article
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