Posted on 07/17/2020 3:52:13 AM PDT by karpov
The nations leading mens 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 coach Frank Martin.
The committee believes the two standardized tests no longer have a place in intercollegiate athletics or higher education at large, Amaker and Martin said in a joint statement Thursday. This is an important step toward combating educational inequality in our country.
The NCAA didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.
A spokesman for the College Board, which oversees the SAT, denied that the test is discriminatory and said that any objective measure of student achievement would shine a light on inequalities in the education system. He added that the College Board has asked colleges to equally consider students for admission who are unable to take the test due to Covid-19, and supports the NCAA reexamining its eligibility requirements.
A spokesperson for the ACT didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.
The NCAA requires incoming athletes in Division I or II sports to complete a series of requirements to be deemed academically eligible, including earning a qualifying score on either the ACT or SAT.
A proposal that accompanied the NABC news release Thursday noted the wider trend already under way to move away from the tests. Many four-year colleges and universities, including those in the Ivy League and Duke and Stanford, wont require the tests for admissions in 2021.
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it’s Charles Shackleford, and if i recall the sign was for JR Reid, a unc player and it said JR Can’t Read.
Charles Shackelford. He was “amphibious” as he said because Coach told him he was a good shooter with both hands.
He daid now....
Then theres North Carolina, which did it out in the open...and the NCAA punted.
...Just go pro...
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Once the lack of an audience of fans impacts professional sports, the sale of merchandise that will need constant vetting to make sure words and images are conformist to the intersectionality du jour,and the gender-confused begin to agitate for a ‘fair’ representation throughout the sport in all capacities, then the money and fame will depart.
Once there is no money, no fame, no kickbacks and no bribes,no one will care who plays or does not and at which level. The progs will once again have destroyed something by making their demands.
With no college sports feeding the pro sport level, all recruitment will once again take place on the street. But the fans will be gone. The TV cameras will be gone. The tie-in endorsements will be gone. So no one will care except the few who actually loved the game for itself.
Problem solved.
this is an apocryphal story that has bee spread around forever. totally not true. Jim Valvano said that stuff all the time. I’ve heard this story a million times as a knock from unc fans. they all saw it on wral is what they say. i’ll shut up when the youtube video comes up.
Craig Robinson? You mean Michelle Obama’s brother?
If Princeton and Harvard Law had academic standards, she would never have been admitted to either.
One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industriousbecause all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believesome people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because theyre born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cake than otherssome people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men.
You didn't make an argument. You challenged a statement I made by saying, "Prove it. What study or studies proves that point." By the way, studies don't "prove" anything. I told you my observations.
What are they studying at school?
Some were STEM majors; others (for example) business majors. I don't know all their majors, but none of them majored in women's studies, for example, although I would argue that a liberal arts degree also requires college-level academic ability.
SATs are a good predictor in the schools of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Engineering.
I never said they weren't a good predictor. I even said scholarships should still be given for high test scores. I merely said a low score doesn't mean you won't do well in college.
Of course. But, a low SAT score doesn't mean you won't do well in college. It's one test on one day, although most students take it 2-3 times to raise their score.
especially a one Craig Robinson.....
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