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Fine. I disagree, but I respect you too much not to listen. I still reserve the right to point out his banality, under any name.

 

We have a traditionally-black college here in town.

The subject would be a good subject for an enterprising journalist with a national audience to get off his butt and write about ... do we know any of those?

 

I don't think you need a national audience per se. If the story is good, it should be written.

 

What I'm saying is this: Somebody with a national audience ... say, a writer at ESPN: The Magazine or Sports Illustrated or even USA Today ... should tackle the topic on that level. Not just another local writer for a local paper.

It's a good national-trend piece and based on the total lack of knowledge I've seen on this thread it needs to be written at that distribution level.

 

Oh I understand completely what you are saying. And I totally agree. In a lot of communities where this is happening, it's like an untold but known story.

 

I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure SI did a little piece on white athletes at HBCU's five or six years ago.

It wasn't a huge, demanding enterprise story, but it was insightful.

 

Norfolk State came to town for a baseball game a couple of years back and the team was 70 percent white/Hispanic.

 

Wow, I just watched some of Pollard's presser at Iowa State. He just tore Chizik to shreds.

 

Turner Gill at Colorado would be hilarious.

Dan Hawkins has been fucking awful.

 

Pollard: Chizik told me twice he wasn't taking Auburn job

REGISTER STAFF REPORT • December 15, 2008

Ames, Ia. — Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard said today that former football coach Gene Chizik told him twice that he planned to turn down the Auburn job — including the same day he accepted the position.

Pollard expressed clear and consistent frustration that Chizik left the Cyclones after two seasons, five victories and the most recent 2-10 season.

“I know Jamie Pollard couldn’t do that to this place,” Pollard said during his first public comments about Chizik’s departure.

Pollard said Chizik interviewed for the Auburn job on Thursday, but left a voice mail that night saying he would not take the position. Early on Friday, Pollard said, Chizik had reiterated that would remove himself from consideration.

Between 1-5 p.m. on Friday, however, Pollard said he and senior assistant athletic director Steve Malchow were not able to reach Chizik through telephone calls or text messages.

Pollard received a telephone call on Friday night while attending Iowa State’s NCAA volleyball match in Minneapolis from Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs, letting him know they were hiring Chizik.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081215/SPORTS020602/81215012

 

Bethune Cookman and FAMU also boast non African-American baseball stars.