Anyone remotely surprised?
And how come we never hear complaints about this from the race baiters?
Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/opinion-in-the-graduation-gap-bowl-black-college-athletes-and-students-lose/ar-AA1mDTp4
But our success.
Some of those results are unbelievably bad
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Many of those guys cannot or will not speak standard English.
Yet 95% will have to go out and get real jobs in the real world
where poor language skills will severely penalize them.
Colorado HC Deion Sanders, a supposed college graduate (I think),
chooses to use Black vernacular rather than speak using standard
English with the media. The message that Sanders is sending to his players
is that developing and presenting themselves as student-athletes means
NOTHING more than "acting White", which is for chumps.
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I am sure they must already include similar data in the standard recruiting pitch material.
My opinion is that it comes down to a cultural issue. It may not be the popular opinion among the politically correct people, and especially among those who get triggered by non-politically correct statements, but hey, to each his own.
Does a given culture promote self-betterment for the long term, or does it encourage eschewing future wellness in exchange for short term gain?
Until a given culture encourages the former, and discourages the latter, the "racial gap" isn't going to change.
I believe that a more accurate gauge of this would be looking at what happens to football players after their playing days are over. Did a particular player plan for the future, save up his money, invest his NFL earnings wisely, etc., or did he blow it on luxury cars, jewelry, mansions, hookers and blow, etc.? For that matter, seeing how freshly retired NFL players spend their severance pay (22K per credited season) might provide more insight as well. The pension for NFL players isn't exactly awe-inspiring, especially among those whose careers were cut short due to one reason or another.
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And one day, neither white nor black students who play college football will graduate from college.
But 20 year olds feel that all that glitters will last a life time.