Packers hire Brian Gutekunst as GM

[Joemailman]

I think this is a great hire. I wonder, did the Packers fulfill the Rooney Rule during their GM candidate search?

I don't know. Does requesting an interview with Reggie McKenzie suffice?

[pbmax]

I don't know. Does requesting an interview with Reggie McKenzie suffice?

I bet they interviewed Whaley.

Unless the list of interviews is longer than we know, Murphy was just doing tokenism and not interested in looking beyond the Packers way of doing things.

[gbgary]

I bet they interviewed Whaley.

and maybe highsmith.

[Joemailman]

and maybe highsmith.

I think Highsmith left because he wasn't going to get an interview.

[rollo]

I don't know. Does requesting an interview with Reggie McKenzie suffice?

I don't think it does. The Lions sort of used that as an excuse in 2003 but still got fined 200k.

"In 2003, the NFL fined the Detroit Lions $200,000 for failure to interview African-American candidates for the team's vacant head coaching job. After Marty Mornhinweg was fired, the Lions immediately hired former San Francisco 49ers head coach Steve Mariucci (a native of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) to replace him without interviewing any other candidates. The Lions claimed they attempted to interview other candidates but that the African-American candidates withdrew from interviews, believing Mariucci's hiring was inevitable.[18] The Lions wouldn't have a minority head coach until hiring Jim Caldwell in 2014."