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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be great if colleges committed to devote athletic recruits 100% to URM, FG, and LI.  Our next president should have a compact with colleges.  [/quote]

+1000

The pipeline to athletics recruits is designed to be the least inclusive and the least equitable.  Zero effort is made to train, reach out to, and recruit URM, FG, and LI.  It’s a disgrace.[/quote]

So colleges are now supposed to train kids in athletics for possible recruitment in the future? In what world does this make sense?[/quote]

It makes sense because there is huge barriers for disadvantaged kids.  All the money, the coach, the facilities, the travel, the equipment, or even as simple as the clothing, for an "athlete" is unimagineable to the disadvantaged kids.  My son's volleyball team has a black teammate, the club team waived all the fees for him thanks to the donation, but he couldn't afford travelling so we volunteered to take that responsibility.  But his athletic talent is 10x of my son's yet they are playing in the same club.

The high school sports are essentially inaccessible to disadvantaged kids.  Everyone knows that yet colleges continue this inequitable practice.  Rick Singers are busy working since the kids were five...[/quote]High school sports are essentially free and many require nothing to be purchased by the student except for shoes. An excellent athlete that can’t afford club sports will likely find scholarship opportunities for clubs and private schools as well as they are always looking for an edge. I wouldn’t be worried about disadvantaged kids finding athletic opportunities, but I would be worried about the youth sports machinery talking advantage of disadvantaged kids (and stupid wealthy kids for that matter).  See Michael Oher.[/quote]

When we talked about racism and inequality, college recruit sports is an appropriate place to start.
About 85% college lacrosse players are white, only 3-4% college lacrosse players are black.

Think about this, how disgusting it is.  It was a game invented by native Americans.  But no surprise.  White reappropriated it to serve the white.  [/quote]

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