For the first time since the NCAA began tracking student-athlete ethnicity data 11 years ago, African-Americans compose the highest percentage of the players in Division I football.
According to the 2009-10 NCAA Student-Athlete Race and Ethnicity Report, 45.8 percent of student-athletes in Division I football (including the Football Bowl Subdivision and the Football Championship Subdivision) were African-American, followed closely by white football players at 45.1 percent.
African-Americans had composed the highest percentage of football student-athletes in the Football Bowl Subdivision the two previous years, but it is the first time that they have been the dominant demographic in all of Division I football.
The percentages represent a significant jump from the first report in 1999-2000 when African-Americans composed 39.5 percent of the football players in Division I (40.3 percent in what then was known as Division I-A).
In the Football Championship Subdivision, Caucasian student-athletes continue to compose the majority at 47.6 percent, followed by African-Americans at 43.9 percent in the 2009-10 report. The percentage of African-Americans in that subdivision has steadily increased from 38.5 percent in 1999-2000 to the current level.
All the Ivy League needs to become relevant again is to diversify its OOC schedule.
According to the 2009-10 NCAA Student-Athlete Race and Ethnicity Report, 45.8 percent of student-athletes in Division I football (including the Football Bowl Subdivision and the Football Championship Subdivision) were African-American, followed closely by white football players at 45.1 percent.
Maybe the NCAA, as an organization that represents institutions of higher learning, should learn what the word "majority" means.
According to the 2009-10 NCAA Student-Athlete Race and Ethnicity Report, 45.8 percent of student-athletes in Division I football (including the Football Bowl Subdivision and the Football Championship Subdivision) were African-American, followed closely by white football players at 45.1 percent.
Maybe the NCAA, as an organization that represents institutions of higher learning, should learn what the word "majority" means.
SunCoastBlueHen wrote:Racial equality won't really exist until bullshit like this stops making headlines.
This release of more blacks in div 1 football is restricting racial equality? Of all things?
I say "so f-ing what?!?!" If I was a black person, I would consider this to be extremely patronizing. What does this actually demonstrate to you other than a meaningless statistic that serves only to distinguish between races?
They are the major group in this BF but in order to be a majority they would have to reach 50.1% is what mvem is getting at I think.
SCBH is saying that it wouldn't be news or seen as an accomplishment if it's Caucasian but it is news if it's black dudes. The fact that it has to be a "pat on the back" type of thing seems a bit condescending to the race so it seems a that there is an inequality if someone has to tout it as a accomplishment.
I didn't hit the link so I didn't get the tenor of the article or any past articles where Caucasians were the most plentiful group so I can't compare them.
Ursus A. Horribilis wrote:They are the major group in this BF but in order to be a majority they would have to reach 50.1% is what mvem is getting at I think.
I would have guessed this "milestone" had been passed years ago based on what I've seen on the field/court. Maybe the white guys are on the sideline/bench because it normally looks like a black majority on the playing surface.
SunCoastBlueHen wrote:Racial equality won't really exist until bullshit like this stops making headlines.
This release of more blacks in div 1 football is restricting racial equality? Of all things?
I'd actually agree with BF here. There's nothing in the article that makes it sound like they are saying this is a particularly good or bad thing, just an interesting factoid. And I did think it was interesting, mostly because I would have thought it was already that way. (that probably makes racist...but I think I've only ever seen about 3 black people in Iowa not wearing college athletic gear)
Half the article is filled with other demographic statistics. They just chose to highlight a 'first'.
