ESPN - The Dark Cloud over black colleges

[Young Drachma]

Here's the story


The story basically talks about black colleges, their inability to recruit top players and yadda yadda.

Frankly, if they didn't play in self-segregated conferences and actually competed against other schools in D1-AA or D-1 in other sports or just moved down and won, it'd be of no consequence and people might notice.

But these schools don't fail to recruit whites to their golf teams:

From Aug. 2000
Once again, the Minority Golf Championship for historically Black colleges has been dominated by white players, many from other countries. Bethune-Cookman College placed second in the top division of the men's tournament after winning last year. And the sister Wildcats won the women's tournament this year, beating a runner-up squad from Hampton University by 124 strokes. Both squads had white players, most from Britain and Australia. And Kentucky State University, led by two white Canadians, won the men's second-division tournament, which includes teams from smaller colleges.

This year, Florida A&M University broke a three-year streak of
predominantly white teams winning the top men's division. With
a roster of three Black and two white players, the Rattlers upset
Bethune-Cookman by 23 strokes.

[Leonidas]

I don't think this is a black school issue. Small schools everywhere are having trouble keeping up since BCS came to power. I've heard the MAC and CUSA are in real danger of losing DivI football status is the BCS has its way and changes eligibility rules.

I can very easily see a day where the NCAA is pretty much an everything else governing body and the BCS will govern the big schools in college football. Then the BCS can do away with the amateur charade and have the schools start paying players. One big legal complication to that will be Title IX. If they pay football players, then female athletes will want equal pay.

[tucker342]

I REALLY hope schools are allowed to pay their college athletes(of course alot of schools do it anyways), the last thing we need is more players bitching about their pay... plus athletes will start picking schools by how much they get paid...