Coach Charlie Strong

Coach Charlie Strong is frat.

Gators’ Strong told white wife has been impediment

Associated Press
MIAMI — Florida Gators defensive coordinator Charlie Strong believes race is a reason he hasn’t been offered a head-coaching job during his 25 years in college football, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

Strong, a 48-year-old black man, shook his head affirmatively when an Orlando Sentinel reporter asked him if his interracial marriage was a factor in getting passed over for jobs, including one at a Southern school a few years ago. Strong, whose wife is white, said he heard that too many times for it to be rumor. 

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