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Black College Football (HBCU) is Dying
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:53 pm
This article is about a month old, but I guess still relevant.
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Just curious if anyone even cares about these schools, but I have always found it interesting that more African American athletes have not shown more solidarity with these institutions. Especially in the SEC with its fan base, history and rule sets. I guess money trumps everything.
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Just curious if anyone even cares about these schools, but I have always found it interesting that more African American athletes have not shown more solidarity with these institutions. Especially in the SEC with its fan base, history and rule sets. I guess money trumps everything.
This post was edited on 12/27/12 at 12:58 pm
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Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:54 pm to OleWar
You should really change your thread title. Instead of "black", make it "HBCU"
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:56 pm to OleWar
Did Jemele Hill write it?
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:00 pm to OleWar
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have always found it interesting that more African American athletes have not shown more solidarity with these institutions.
HBCs have long outlived their purpose. No offense to anyone who went to one, but even the private ones lag far behind the average state school in every possible way--including athletic resources. Why would these kids potentially sacrifice millions for some symbolic solidarity with failing institutions.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:00 pm to OleWar
its been dying since the early 90's maybe even before.
A big issue was how they never played in the 1-AA playoffs until a few years ago and still some leagues don't send a team even though they are like 10-2
A big issue was how they never played in the 1-AA playoffs until a few years ago and still some leagues don't send a team even though they are like 10-2
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:01 pm to OleWar
Author definitely has some frustration with whitey.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:10 pm to OleWar
Really no reason for a stud black kid to go to an HBCU for football anymore unless he couldn't qualify for an FBS school.
This post was edited on 12/27/12 at 1:10 pm
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:12 pm to OleWar
I'm shocked that an obsolete institution is dying off.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:32 pm to OleWar
A lot of it has to do with Alumni support. The graduates of black colleges don't make the kind of money that allows them to donate to the athletic dept.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:58 pm to OleWar
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but I have always found it interesting that more African American athletes have not shown more solidarity with these institutions
When you consider what the civil rights movement was about, it's not that interesting.
What was one of the major themes of the civil rights movement? Blacks wanted access to the best. They wanted access to mainstream white America, to it's schools, universities, hotels, restaurants, neighborhoods,etc. Why? Because those are the best. Just about everything that was deemed "black" was inferior.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 3:30 pm to OleWar
That's the problem. Marching Bands. Not bad academics.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 4:20 pm to OleWar
I'm surprised HBCU football has lasted this long after integration, frankly. They served a purpose. That purpose is over.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 5:38 pm to OleWar
It's really interesting that, while many of these places claim to have the advancement of young black students at heart, they'd rather place emphasis on the continuity of segregation in athletics in their schools. It does the black race, nor any of their sports for that matter, any justice to have higher pride in your race than your school/team. True equality comes through embracing similarities not differences. Thus, these institutions are archaic and should be relegated to the history from whence they arose.
Posted on 12/28/12 at 8:23 am to OleWar
Unfortunately, Black college football is going the way of Negro League Baseball, another victim of racial progress. The ironic thing is that when it comes to college football, the folks who fought the hardest for civil rights, HBCU schools and their supporters, are the folks who were hurt the most by it, and the folks who were the most vehemently opposed to civil rights, SEC schools and their supporters, were the biggest beneficiaries of civil rights.
All diehard SEC football fans should get down on their hands and knees and thank MLK and LBJ for what they did in the 1960's, because without them, the SEC would not be the dominant football conference that it is today. If folks like George Wallace, Ross Barnett, Orville Faubus, Lester Maddox and Strom Thurmond had had their way and won the battle over civil rights, the SEC wouldn't even be an AQ football conference today and would likely be on par with the MAC and the Sun Belt Conference.
All diehard SEC football fans should get down on their hands and knees and thank MLK and LBJ for what they did in the 1960's, because without them, the SEC would not be the dominant football conference that it is today. If folks like George Wallace, Ross Barnett, Orville Faubus, Lester Maddox and Strom Thurmond had had their way and won the battle over civil rights, the SEC wouldn't even be an AQ football conference today and would likely be on par with the MAC and the Sun Belt Conference.
Posted on 12/28/12 at 3:48 pm to OleWar
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