Saturday, in our household, we watch College Football; Sunday, when the professional play, we all go out and play golf (even if it is raining, which it does often here...!). Today, we watched a classic titanic battle between Ole Miss and LSU; 3 yards and a cloud of dust.. two strong teams that play boring classic SEC football. As we watched these two sets of gladiators, young college kids; playing in front of 100,000 cheering fans in Baton Rouge... not lost on us is the fact that despite being only 11% of the USA population, these two teams fielded teams that were almost predominantly black.. like 85% black. The first black kid to play in the SEC was one Northington in 1967 for Kentucky. The last SEC team to integrate and play a black kid was Ole Miss in 1971... I am glad they got their tails whipped by LSU. Change comes slowly at Ole Miss. In 1963, Mississippi State had to sneak out of Starkville to go to Chicago to play Loyola in an NCAA tourney after they had been prohibited by the legislature to do so because Loyola fielded a black player. Oh my word, how the world has changed since then; but one can never forget that these black players have now been accepted as players in the SEC as long as they are winning and bringing honor to their schools. A mediocre black player has a short tenure at an SEC campus. The slavery, disguised as the NCAA has deep roots in the SEC: these kids leave their campuses with no degrees and no professional contracts. They go into the world absolutely dysfunctional. No skills at all. Coaches at SEC schools (all white!) pull down million dollar salaries while their athletes get nothing; used up and discarded. I ran track in college.. very intense program in my case. We went to meets on Fridays and returned on late Mondays; meaning that, during athletics season, I missed all Friday and Monday lectures. Had to rely on classmates for lecture notes and topics covered. Athletics here is big business, and it is unrealistic that these kids can be athletes and students at the same time. These kids need to be paid, and paid well in the form of a trust account which they will cash when they graduate.. maybe add a carrot that they HAVE to graduate.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 07:17:29 +0000
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