Updated: January 21, 2007, 8:34 PM ET

NFL continues to make progress on minority hiring

By getting more minority coaches into the "pipeline," the NFL is ensuring that it will continue to build diversity in its head coaching ranks, Len Pasquarelli writes.

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Pasquarelli By Len Pasquarelli
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In league circles, it is often referred to as "the pipeline," the imaginary on-ramp which links NFL assistants with loftier aspirations to the potential fast-lane existence as a head coach.

Use it in a sentence, you say? No problem. Here's one we've heard parroted at league meetings for the past several years: We've got to get more minority candidates into the pipeline.

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