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BCA to create minority hiring report card for universities The executive director of the Black Coaches Association, Floyd Keith said in late October that his organization and others intend to create a Hiring Report Card by August 2003 to grade and track the progress of minority football coaches, while giving players something to use when making their decision on which schools to attend. The BCA called on colleges to fill at least one of every five head football coaching vacancies (20 percent) with a minority over the next three years. After a decade and a half of frustration over the scarcity of African-American coaches, the association is prepared to inform leading recruits of progress – or the lack of it – at specific schools, and, if needed, steer them away from programs that do not comply. Keith has been challenging major universities to create more opportunities for minority