[dfwgator]

Remember when Tom Brookshier got fired from CBS back in the 80s for saying that the collective IQ of the Louisville basketball team was 40.

[Jan_Sobieski]

They’re not recruiting dumb jocks now?!

[Grampa Dave]

So what is new.

Colleges did that in the 1950’s.

[hanamizu]

“The National Association of Basketball Coaches requests the NCAA remove an eligibility requirement to submit SAT or ACT scores...the NABC decries the two tests as wicked forces of institutional racism “

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Are blacks under represented in college basketball?

[bort]

My personal favorite were the “student-athletes” from Xavier’s basketball team that got in a huge brawl with Cincinnati’s team and, at the post-game press conference, emphasized that “we gangstas, man.”

[headstamp 2]

“The University of Mars!”

[mikey_hates_everything]

Yes, college basketball teams have been far too white for decades. This must change.

[PGR88]

Brigham intended the test to demonstrate the racial superiority of white blood. His project, of course, failed.

It demonstrated the superiority of Asian Tiger Moms.

[A_Former_Democrat]

They’ve been recruiting Dumb Jocks for decades

Low GPAs and test scores, plus massive amounts of tutors and testing/academic fraud

And it’s still not enough

[TexasM1A]

Jimmy the Greek was right.

[cranked]

Hardly new given the fact that universities and colleges have long been dumbing down uni/college entrance requirements.......

[9YearLurker]

I am so over basketball. Never liked the college scam, but I am over that and the pro pros, if you will.

They are neither interested in helping nor helping African-Americans with this self-interested push. Pandering plus trying to lower yet further the bar for college entry for blacks.

They disgust me.

[Jim Noble]

This is a(nother) really stupid article about this.

Division 1 basketball is a minor league for the NBA. The criteria for entry is skill with a round ball. Intelligence, and the ability to enroll in college-level classes, has ZERO to do with the business (which is, or was, worth multiple millions of dollars to colleges).

Stop the hypocrisy! If a good roundball player, raking in the $$ for some college, HAPPENS to be smart enough to also go to, and benefit from, college - fine. But don’t pretend that’s why most of them are there.

They are as competitive in their field as the nerdiest Chinese man from Shanghai is at MIT. Leave it at that.

[ealgeone]

In his 1930 paper "Intelligence Tests of Immigrant Groups," Brigham recanted his 1923 analysis of the results of the Army Mental Tests. Due to having used prejudicial test administration and analytical techniques in his original research (he had not taken into consideration that the first language of some of the people he studied was not English), he acknowledged that his conclusions were "without foundation" and stated "that study with its entire hypothetical superstructure of racial differences collapses completely."[7][8] Nevertheless, it had already been instrumental in fueling anti-immigrant sentiment in America and in the eugenics debate

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For clarity. Ain't buying or selling on the dude.

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t think the coaches are going to like how this plays out.

[The Pack Knight]

As always, the answer is not to help black people do better, but make it more comfortable for them to do worse. And we wonder why there are racial disparities in America.

[ßuddaßudd]

better yet, they should hire the affletes to play ball for them. .
yes, professional college ball players .

[freedumb2003]

What, the old way of buying smart guys to sit in on the jocks’ tests and do their homework is not good enough anymore?

[17th Miss Regt]

Would the NABC prefer a system that allows whites to be explicitly discriminated against?

Why, yes. Yes, they would.

[liberalh8ter]

I was just perusing the Babylon Bee’s site before coming back to FR. I saw this headline and thought, “Oh, the BB must have slipped in another story I missed!”