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College Basketball Coaches Call for End to ACT, SAT Requirement
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 16, 2020 | Rachel Bachman

Posted on 07/17/2020 7:36:29 AM PDT by C19fan

The nation’s leading men’s college basketball coaches’ association has called the SAT and ACT “longstanding forces of institutional racism” and wants them eliminated from use in determining athletes’ eligibility. The National Association of Basketball Coaches made the move three days after naming its first-ever Black executive director, the former Division I coach Craig Robinson. It also came the month after the organization formed a Committee on Racial Reconciliation, co-chaired by Harvard coach Tommy Amaker and South Carolina...

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KEYWORDS: basketball; college; didyousearch; tests
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The SAT was devised to identify smart kids not from WASP elite schools like Choate. These coaches and others can complain about the "racism" of the SAT but SAT score is the most significant predictor of success in college.
1 posted on 07/17/2020 7:36:29 AM PDT by C19fan
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Oh yeah, this will do a lot to dispel the “dumb jock” stereotype.


2 posted on 07/17/2020 7:39:31 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Guns don't kill people. Planned Parenthood does.)
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Bwahahahaha

IOW. We need players so why are you making hard???


3 posted on 07/17/2020 7:41:12 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Tell these butt holes that the tail does not wag the dog.


4 posted on 07/17/2020 7:42:08 AM PDT by shalom aleichem (Get movin' Durham!)
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so merit and achievement tests are now ‘racist’

Dear Coach, is your statement an open admission that you are inferior, or what?

(ps: the smartest kid in my undergraduate class was black, so don’t give me any more BS that black people are inferior, you are full of Sheit making statements like that!)


5 posted on 07/17/2020 7:42:14 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Proving that the real purpose of college basketball is the coach’s salary.


6 posted on 07/17/2020 7:42:32 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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But college athletics has nothing to do with an education. They are guaranteed a degree and “da program” will see to it that no one fails, right up to having someone else take their tests for them. The SAT and ACT do a passable job of making sure the one who is taking the test is the one who will get the grade. In college, “da program” has it all arranged, wink wink, nudge nudge. This will allow “da program” the expense of requiring that their “students” are smart enough to get into college.

Ask yourself this: if “da coach” earns more than the president of the university, wouldn’t you question that university’s credential to confer a degree?


7 posted on 07/17/2020 7:42:36 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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Didn’t you get the memo? Having an intact family, having a work ethic, showing up on time, delaying gratification, believing in the validity of the scientific method, planning for the future, believing in the validity of property rights, and believing in the value individualism are all racist now.


8 posted on 07/17/2020 7:48:38 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Guns don't kill people. Planned Parenthood does.)
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Lulz, nearly 3/4s of them can’t read nor understand what they read nor can they put an academic paragraph together.......been my experience teaching nearly a decade at uni/college level.


9 posted on 07/17/2020 7:49:39 AM PDT by cranked
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LOL - of course they do.


10 posted on 07/17/2020 7:50:09 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("You can't die of every little thing all the time." ~Itxu Diaz)
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College bball is over anyway. The top prospects are going to directly to the professional G league after high school. Four out of the top five best HS players are doing just that come September. The days of the one-and-done are over.


11 posted on 07/17/2020 7:50:16 AM PDT by JonPreston (Covid19 is communist Chinese bioweapon)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

Rec Yard All-Stars ~

I don’t know about you, but I always look to college basketball coaches for unbiased guidance concerning the importance of academic achievement in collegiate athletics and modern society. Why not just inaugurate a juvenile penal league and avoid the temporary “college detour” altogether?

National standardized academic testing exposes the corruption and lack of achievement standards in inner-city schools. If they can spell their name, and not murder a teacher in the meantime, they’ll graduate with a 3.5 GPA.


12 posted on 07/17/2020 7:50:26 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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Committee on Racial Reconciliation

*****

You mean they're going to start recruiting more white, asian and hispanic players??

13 posted on 07/17/2020 7:50:39 AM PDT by ealgeone
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You would think it’s insulting because it’s basically saying “we need to lower the acceptance threshold even lower to give minorities a chance to get in.”

It also says the university doesn’t care about education, they need the sports revenue.


14 posted on 07/17/2020 7:51:29 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: shalom aleichem

Ahh, but it does.


15 posted on 07/17/2020 7:52:24 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

indeed.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/sheer_lunacy_rules_the_day.html


16 posted on 07/17/2020 7:53:35 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Heh, entrance exams have never made much diff. No change here, in reality. Our universities are now a joke in virtually every area. Upcoming graduates should be treated as the total dumb*sses that they are. And that most certainly includes law grads - because we know where the bottom of that crowd goes ...”Future Congresscritter”.


17 posted on 07/17/2020 7:54:05 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I agree, I believe we need the DUMBEST STUDENTS to play basketball! I mean, we do have a high school drop out, who thinks he know about China - Hong Kong relations!


18 posted on 07/17/2020 7:54:12 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
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How having a winning basketball program can be reconciled with the New Virtues that denigrate (Oops! Can I still use that word?) being #1, winning at all costs, an action orientation, a winner/loser dichotomy, aggressiveness, decisiveness, and so on is beyond me.


19 posted on 07/17/2020 7:54:41 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Guns don't kill people. Planned Parenthood does.)
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To: blueunicorn6

And shoe contracts.


20 posted on 07/17/2020 7:57:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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