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Related: About this forumBrowns want to interview Condoleezza Rice for head-coaching job
Adam Schefter
ESPN Senior Writer
11:12 AM ET
Browns general manager John Dorsey said last week that he was open to hiring a woman as Cleveland's next head coach, and there is one prominent name on the team's wish list to interview.
The Browns would like to interview former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for their head-coaching job, a league source tells ESPN.
If the Browns follow through on it, Rice would become the first woman ever to interview for an NFL head-coaching job.
Cleveland's interest in interviewing Rice comes at a time when women recently have moved into decision-making roles in men's professional sports. The Spurs hired Becky Hammon as an assistant coach, the Buffalo Bills hired Kathryn Smith as a quality control assistant, the Raiders hired Kelsey Martinez to their strength staff, and the 49ers hired Katie Sowers as an offensive assistant.
A potential interview hardly means the Browns will hire Rice, but they are interested in talking to her about the job and seeing what she could bring to the position and the organization.
"She's an amazing person," one Browns source told ESPN.
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Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Auggie
(31,061 posts)Holy Paul Brown theyre serious
WTF?!?!
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)philf99
(238 posts)Please tell me this is a publicity stunt.
underpants
(182,279 posts)That's what the report I read said.
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)Her incredible intellect, if spread out like water on a table, wouldn't saturate a kleenex.
True Dough
(17,092 posts)publicity stunt written all over it. What would be the next step? The Browns go 0-8 under Rice's tutelage and then Dorsey has Trumpy stop by to tell Condi on camera: "YOU'RE FIRED!"
Ratings bonanza even though it's a shit show. The NFL should shut this silly talk down.
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)Sounds like a a stupid idea. Aren't there women out there who have previous coaching football experience?
Jennifer Welter and Callie Brownson come to mind, I'm sure there are others. Rice cakes has no coaching experience and I doubt her football knowledge since she's never played or coached.
underpants
(182,279 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)John1956PA
(2,654 posts)Condoleezza Rice on May 16, 2002, from https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-03-30-questions-usat_x.htm :
In Tom Clancy's 1994 Novel, Debt of Honor, a commercial airline pilot goes rogue, and he crashes the Boeing 747 he is commandeering into the U. S. Capitol during a joint session of Congress.
I recall Al Franken, in his Air America Radio talk show, pointing out the absurdity of Rice's statement.
Hokie
(4,284 posts)Then I remembered we are talking about the Browns.
Auggie
(31,061 posts)backward for even thinking about Condoleezza Rice???
Coaching experience is not a prerequisite anymore?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)True Dough
(17,092 posts)BHDem53
(1,059 posts)bomb Pittsburgh and Baltimore.