re: Will Wade’s towel

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He said he would never have white kids on his teams

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A nagging criticism of Thompson is that he won't recruit white players. His recent teams have had two or three white players. Last year's national championship team had none. As of the first day of practice this year, there were no white players on the 1984-85 team.
"We've recruited a lot of white kids over the years," says Stein, Thompson's chief recruiter for 10 years, and now the athletic director at St. Peter's College. "A lot of them have told us they don't want to play for a black coach, simple as that.

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