Relax, the Browns are not hiring Condoleezza Rice

After a report came out on Sunday afternoon about Condoleezza Rice being a candidate for the Cleveland Browns head coaching job, people lost their minds.

Condoleezza Rice is a brilliant woman who has accomplished more in her lifetime than most family trees have. She also happens to be a longtime, diehard Cleveland Browns fan, because nobody is perfect.

Rice, who has expressed interest in being the NFL commissioner in past years, is now being linked to the impending Browns’ head coach opening, per Adam Schefter of ESPN. Predictably, this has people in the greater Cleveland area yanking out whatever remaining hair they have, believing the organization might go full-on rogue in an attempt to recapture its glory days.

However, they shouldn’t worry. While Rice is exceptional in almost all walks of life, this is either one or two things: a PR stunt or owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam getting far too involved with the football side of the business.

The Haslams have gone too far into football discussions before, and so it’s not impossible to think it’s happening again. That said, general manager John Dorsey is the epitome of a football lifer, and so hiring Rice would be a stunning decision based on what we know about him.

This is something Dorsey made obvious in a statement on Sunday afternoon.

Whoever gets the job is going to have ample football experience, whether it’s as a former head coach or as an assistant coach with other NFL teams.

UPDATE: Rice has no interest in the job, although she’s apparently done with prevent defense.

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While at Stanford as a professor, Rice was influential in football decisions. The former Secretary of State pushed for the hiring of Tyrone Willingham, who had a solid tenure with the Cardinal, going 44-36-1 while notching four bowl appearances in seven campaigns.

Ultimately, the Browns aren’t going to hire Rice to be the head coach, although it wouldn’t be the worst idea to have her on the advisory board. Cleveland can use all the brainpower it can get, and few people have more of that than Rice.