[Charles Henrickson]

astonishing to us is that it seems the American public . . . has accepted as normal the widespread inequities that are cyclically reproduced in most revenue-generating college sports programs. Perhaps more outrage and calls for accountability would ensue if there were greater awareness of the actual extent to which college sports persistently disadvantage Black male student-athletes.

"Persistently disadvantaged"?? It seems to me that that is exactly the opposite of the case. In reality, it looks like black "student"-athletes are being persistently over-advantaged. They get full scholarships, they get to play on high-profile teams, yet their relatively poor academic performance would indicate that they are not really college material.

[FlJoePa]

Well, it’s from Penn, so you know it is going to be editorialized. I went to the statistics to see who is and isn’t getting the job done - either on the front end at admissions, or the back end w/ tutoring and increased expectations of the students themselves.

Like in the rest of the world, there seem to be givers and takers.

[9YearLurker]

Yep. The study notes that blacks are often overrepresented on an order of 30x on college sports teams and feels no compulsion to make that more balanced, yet takes it for granted that assumptions of black athletic superiority (and relative academic inferiority) are wrong.