The Labor Market Context of Social Capital: Race and Social Networks in the Occupational Internal Labor Market of College Football Coaches

To understand the labor market context of social capital, the extent to which an occupational internal labor market makes social capital particularly important to coaches’ career outcomes is examined. Using archival data on 118 coaches from a major conference at the NCAA Division IA level, I describe the network structure, network composition, and differences in career experience between black and white coaches at different status levels within the profession.