Why the Jets should pay Romeo 100,000 dollars to answer his phone.

The GM saddled the Mangenius with Favre, who predictably blew the Jets play-off chances in the final weeks. Then they fired Mangini for not winning. Seems like the guy who pushed for the trade should have gone out the door first. Now, Future Hall of Fame coaches Cowher and Shanahan won't go to the Jets because because (reportedly) they don't want to coach Favre and they won't work with the GM who traded for him.

Also, the Jets, like most teams with head coaching vacancies haven't interviewed a black candidate yet, in violation of the Rooney Rule. Now it seems like the Jets are running out of options. They desperately want a high profile coach, but the organization as such isn't set up to land one.

Now, it seems like most teams have resigned themselves to the fact that they are more willing to pay a 200,000 dollar fine than consider hiring a black coach. If I were Romeo Crennel, I would leave my phone off the hook for next few months. I would expect several teams to come calling for him to interview to save themselves the fine, while all along the team has absolutely no interest in hiring him.

Having lived through several fake job interviews where the decision not hire me was made before my application hit the persons desk, I can only imagine the frustration of being invited to fly across the country several times in the middle of winter in pursuit of a job that isn't even available. If Crennel were as greedy as I am, he could offer to interview for these non-existent jobs for half the money it would cost the team in fines. Say he agrees to be the de facto minority to be fake interviewed by all of the teams with openings for 100,000 dollars a call. He could charge the Jets, Lions, Broncos a total of 300,000 dollars for a few phone calls.

note:
"In 2003, the NFL fined the Detroit Lions $200,000 for failure to interview minority 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 to replace him without interviewing any other candidates. The Lions claimed they attempted to interview other candidates but that the minority candidates withdrew from interviews, believing Mariucci's hiring was inevitable."
-Wikipedia