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I would PREFER to see our kids at HBCUs over them playing for PWIs.
If you claim top black athletes should go to HBCUs you better be in here:Texas Southern@FAMU Thread
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I would PREFER to see our kids at HBCUs over them playing for PWIs.
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Coach Rudy Hubbard to speaking truth!
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I'm done watching now.
If we could get everyone onboard to go to HBCUs and I mean everyone. It would switch where the NCAA went but that's never happening.
FAMU up 29-0 but going for it fourth down
I know they been going for it all game but at this point punt it away
I know they been going for it all game but at this point punt it away
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And y'all supposed to tell me that you'd want your kids to be playing football with these muhfukkas just to live out your dream of sticking it to PWI's?
TSU gotta get some pts
It's about pride at this point
It's about pride at this point
My boy played at Jackson St. Made it to the league and played 3 years in the league
Edit: played for the Brown and the Cardinals.
Man last time TSU coach looked happy was probably when game was 0-0
Why not though. Could you imagine what a 5 star QB numbers would be if they played against TSU right now? It would be on the first page of ESPN.
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My boy played at Jackson St. Made it to the league and played 3 years in the league
Edit: played for the Brown and the Cardinals.
That's an outlier..
There a serious infrastructure problem with HBCU athletics, and you can't fix it with more athletes.
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But everyone doesn't have to be onboard. Just a healthy number of our elite kids.
"Decades ago, football at HBCUs was just as big as football in the Southeastern Conference, if not bigger.
"Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when Grambling was the black Notre Dame and had more players in the NFL than any other school, they were on TV all the time," Aiello said.
Ironically, it was segregation that turned HBCU football into a major powerhouse. Bigger schools like Alabama and LSU had more resources to attract top recruits, just like they do today. However, they opted to pass on many of the country's best high school players because of their skin color.
In the 2017 college football recruiting class, 17 of the top 20 players are African-American. A half-century ago, almost all of them would have ended up at HBCUs.
"All those people that normally would have liked to have gone to Florida State, they would have loved to have gone to Florida. Because of segregation, they had to go to black colleges," Polite said. "That talent level produced some very exciting football."
Even after integration, HBCUs continued to attract talent. Doug Williams, the Pro Football Hall-of-Famer who played with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Washington, went to Grambling State. Walter Payton, arguably the greatest running back ever, went to Jackson State. Jerry Rice went to Mississippi Valley State. Steve McNair went to Alcorn State. Michael Strahan went to Texas Southern.
Once upon a time, that talent made HBCU fandom—largely among African-American fans, but also among whites who knew good football when they saw it—the equivalent of SEC fandom today, with many supporters rooting for and invested in the success of schools they didn't actually attend."
Should Grambling State, Southern, and Other HBCUs Drop Out of Division I Football?
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It'd exacerbate the state of HBCU athletics.
When HBCU's gotta sell their ass for checks playing big time schools it doesn't make headlines for good reasons.