One of the people who should be talking is Chainrated here...He likes him some black and tans dogs
I don't know about black and tans being any rougher than any other color dog but I do know that if my dog had 10 puppies and 5 were black and tan there would be no question as to which ones I would keep..
It's not that I just started out liking that color it's that that color made me like it..