I don't think race should be a big factor in hiring, but I'm not going to be mad if it's used. Reason I say this is because they use other factors sometimes to hire some candidates and minorities are at a disadvantage for that. There also seems to be a different standard for some coordinators compared to other coordinators. Race may not be the reason, but it's kinda weird. As someone mentioned above, Brady is used as a deterrent to hiring Leftwich but it was not used as a deterrent for Josh McDaniels. Manning wasn't used as a deterrent for Gase. Everyone still gave them a chance. Great we can say we learned that lesson and won't do that anymore. Nagy and Moore are inexperienced OCs and people wanted to hire them( I was one of them too) even though Leftwich has more experience. You can say not enough experience hurt Nagy. Great, we can learn from past experience. Totally cool.
However, there are some candidates with terrible histories but for some reason, we're not learning from past experience with them. Some people on this board give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe they learned something from their mistakes. Josh McDaniels who was hired because of Brady the first time, failed in Denver, in St. Louis, and that debacle he did with the Colts is still fresh...yet there are some people who are willing to overlook that. Now, we are not learning from past experience when it comes to this guy. Daboll failed everywhere except when he got a QB. However, we are not using his past experience against him. We just say he probably learned his lesson. Don't get me wrong, I'd be happy with Daboll too.
Frazier and Caldwell also have a bad past experience and yet nobody wants to say that maybe they learned their lesson. Nobody is giving them the benefit of the doubt like they are Josh McDaniels and Daboll. The only minority with a bad past experience that people are ok with, are Flores and possibly Bowles.
To summarize, this is the general consensus of the board:
Not enough experience, we don't want him:
Eric Bienemy
Byron Leftwich
Not enough experience, we want him:
Nagy
Kellen Moore
He had Brady, we don't want him:
Leftwich
He had Brady, we want him:
Josh McDaniels
Has a terrible past coaching history, we don't want him:
Frazier
Caldwell
Has a terrible past coaching history, we want him:
Josh McDaniels
Daboll
Flores
Bowles is a maybe. I want him, but there are people who don't
So as you can see, there are certain people who get the benefit of the doubt and certain people who don't. Not saying race has anything to do with it, just saying that for the most part some coordinators get leeway and some don't. The ones who don't just happen to be "different". Anyway, sorry for the rant. At the end of the day, I agree with you that race should not play a role in hiring HC but if McDaniels for whatever reason keeps getting a pass, I don't mind if they use race.