ESPN Commentators Shockingly Say That We Shouldn't Obsess Over The Skin Color Of Coaches In College Basketball

A pair of ESPN college basketball commentators held a surprisingly intelligent conversation about the number of black coaches in the ACC.

During today’s game between North Carolina and Virginia, Cory Alexander and Dave O’Brien analyzed a graphic that appeared on the broadcast. The title of this graphic was "ACC Head Coaches Who Happen To Be Black."

No one would blame you for thinking you're about to hear a lecture about how more black coaches mean we've at long last defeated racism.

Instead, the commentators took the opposite approach and said that this reality will help us reach the point where we don't view coaches' ethnicities as important.

"We’ll get to a point as to where we’re not concerned about the color of the coach’s skin, it's simply about the fact that these are very good basketball coaches leading great basketball programs," Alexander said.

Wait, did an ESPN employee just say that skin color doesn’t matter when you hire head coaches? What a shock!

Alexander further highlighted how this is a viewpoint all people should take. He highlighted a game that he and O’Brien called earlier this year between North Carolina and Syracuse. In that game, both head coaches were black, but that wasn't something O’Brien picked up right away.

Surprisingly, that actually made Alexander very happy.
 

"The best thing about that entire thing, in my opinion, was the fact that you didn't even recognize the fact that it was two black coaches until I mentioned it to you," Alexander said.

"Indeed. Kind of about time you know?" O’Brien responded.

Yes, it is indeed high time that we stopped infusing divisive racial narratives into sports and start worrying more about the game itself.

Alexander then finished by saying that the less people talk about it, the less people will have to listen to unproductive conversations where people care more about the skin colors of the people in sports.

"The more that we don’t talk about it and the more that it becomes commonplace, I think is where we’re getting to where Martin Luther King’s dream actually was," Alexander said.

Can you imagine how much better off ESPN would be if it adopted the mindset of these guys? Then again, there probably isn’t as much money in being logical.