Real Progress Would Be No Mention of Color

Alan Abrahamson writes [“Forward Progress”, Aug. 31] that someday it won’t be a social milestone when a major college football program hires “a worthy coach who happens to be black.”

That someday would be today if the media would just focus on an individual’s ability to coach and not what color skin they have. In Abrahamson’s example of the hiring of Tyrone Willingham as Notre Dame’s football coach, is it more important that he’s the school’s first black coach or that he could be the first coach to win the Irish a national championship since the 1980s?

Barry P. Resnick

Orange