Black athletics and white coaches and white cheer leaders.

Lets look at the real numbers. In college division one football there are only 5 Black head coaches despite many of the starting players being African American. This is even more true for division one basketball.  Many of these coaches are making well over $2 million a year.

The University of Texas, accoording to CNBC, made over $63 million off of its football program this year. Its coach makes over $3 million a year. If you extended this over all the division one foot ball teams, then these colleges are making millions off of these Black student athletics. But they don't want to hire any of their former players as head coaches or assistants, once or if they graduate.

The college boosters concede that you need these young black bucks to be competitive, but they have told the schools, just make sure that this doesn't bleed over to the coaching ranks, because we are the one who write the checks.

The NFL is a little better better. 68% of the players are African American and they finally do have a handful of Black head coaches. But when they had 9 vacancies this season, most owners decided to hire all white first years coaches who never had NFL coaching experience before. The message seems to be clear.....Black man, you can perform on the field, but when your playing days are over, we have no more use for you...What do you think?

Comments

[John Harrison]

We need to start a campaign that will send all of our athletes to HBC's so that for a while the white schools will feel the heat of competition with no black athletes. Until we start speaking up about it, it will be business as usual.

[Tre Millyanz]

There's also the problem of lowering the academic standards for athletes in college (especially Black ones). White people already expect Blacks to perform poorer in academic settings, and they expect even less from Black athletes, so they end up looking the other way and accepting less from them as well. As long as they to the modern day version of a minstrel show a.k.a. professional sports where all the "niggers" entertain the masters who write their checks.

No offense, but some of the athletes at my university really are not performing up to collegiate standards in the classroom and it reflects poorly on the rest of us while also sending the wrong message to younger cats that see if they pick up a ball instead of a book, they can get special treatment. First we've got to raise the our academic expectations for Black athletes. And the new generation of wealthy Black folk need to follow the lead of Bob Johnson, Nelly, Jay-Z, etc. and buy up these pro teams so we can start controlling the sports industry that is fueled by Black athletes. Gotta keep the wealth within the community as long as possible.

[Webman]

First off let me say that i am white and I agree that the number of black coaches is lower then it should be.I do not feel it is all due to racism.There are less black applicants then there are white ones which account for the lesser numbers.Either way as time continues and people become more open minded and stop following ignorant predjudices,and racist attitudes i hope that this will become less of a problem.

[Candi Reign]

All black dominated sports are a form of modern day slavery believe it or not. Understand the psychiatry of the game....Brown ball going into a white net creating green cash for the owner's and their investor's who are predominately caucasian. By the way, rascist attitudes and predujices were implemeted by non-colored people( Causians). If caucasian people don't hate on Colored people to protect their "supremecy" status for fear of genetic annialation rascism would not exist.

[Alex]

This is funny to see how you turn everything to racist without any reason.

Damn the greatest athlete in football are black and you are complaining about coachs.

Just stop thinking everything is racist. It will help your life go better.

Black, White, Red we are all the same.

[Charles]

Alex I agree we are all the same. And yes
Black athletes have proven their skills on
the field and basketball courts, especially where there is a economic incentive for college or professional teams to win.

Your generalized statement comes from not knowing the facts. Only 3% of NCAA football coaches are Black. Since you claim, I'm only seeing racism where there is non, why are there so few Black head coaches, despite the generations of outstanding Black athletic performance? Please respond with facts and not opinion.

[reese adams]

Maybe the facts are blacks are the better athletes while whites are generally the better program directors. Its like going into mcdonalds you got 10 black employees running the line and preparing the food and one white mgr overseeing. Is McDonalds racist as well?