The Fritz Pollard Alliance, a group that champions The Rooney Rule, is looking into the Indianapolis Colts' hiring of interim head coach Jeff Saturday.
“The rule does not apply to an interim head coach during the season,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in an email. “It does apply after the conclusion of the team’s season. The club would have to fulfill the rule before hiring a full-time head coach.”
Indianapolis owner Jim Irsay said in Saturday’s introductory news conference that the former Colts center was the only man for the job. “I do not believe that the hiring of an interim coach should be excluded from that possibility,” Graves said. “I understand that exceptions are made for in-house decisions, but any time an organization goes outside of their full-time employees to hire another individual, especially for what’s considered a primary position, then it should be opened up to The Rooney Rule.”
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