"Yesterday’s hiring of Ron English by Eastern Michigan brings the total number of African-American head coaches in major college football to five—out of 119. That miniscule number underscores the barriers black coaches face, and, Michael Rosenberg writes for Fox Sports, the need for a black coach to dissolve those barriers by winning big, like Georgetown’s John Thompson did in college hoops."

The wording in this article is so typical. The writer presumes that if more black coaches won more games then it would open the door for more of them to be hired. What's not being addressed is black coaches are not even being opportunities to coach at all. The barrier is a racist system that will not hire black coaches regardless of their merits.