Have you ever been to an HBCU? I can't speak for all of them, but most of the ones I've dealt with had terrible athletic facilities and were unorganized and mismanaged to the point that it drove prospective students and student-atheletes away (like myself). I remember getting bills from Tennessee State about a year or two after I was accepted there and took a few visits to their campus. But I NEVER attended TSU. Both my parents graduated from an HBCU and I thought about going to their alma mater, but they told me quite a few times that I should reconsider. I wish that HBCU's had better organization, more alumni that would give back, and were overall more successful. Because truth be told, I am pretty sure that many people would have had a more fulfilling college experience at a Tuskegee, Howard, FAMU, or Hampton; rather than feeling like a fish out of water at ETSU, UT-Martin, Morehead State, and other schools like them. If I had the money to do this, I would focus on two or three HBCU's that actually have a somewhat decent academic reputation, and I would prop them up and make their facilities pretty decent and on par with an Appalachian State for example. Then I would try to bring in recruits that would allow teams like Tuskegee, Morehouse, FAMU, Hampton, and Howard become D-1 in all sports and hopefully dominate the FCS level of football and become mid-major powerhouses in basketball. If only this shyt were actually realistic....
You got HBCU's struggling for loot and black players down south flock to schools like Alabama and they don't give 2 fukks about these players. These schools make Millions off of black players coming to there school. The whole scholarship argument is bullshyt as well. Lets say Alabama has 80 players on scholarship at 60k per year. that's 4.8 million. They can pay for that plus other expenses with the ticket sales from 2 home games. I would never allow my child to go to a school like Alabama. Black players are just plain naïve and ignorant at the same time.
divison 1 schools all day