The White Flight From Football

[FLATOP]

If its a good article why are you copy pasting the whole thing dog? Let em get some clicks. Brehs will take over college baseball and lacrosse if we shifted focus

I’m very confused. Not that it’s easy but why not put your focus and energy on the kids education?

She doesnt even have a GED herself? What could she help him with it.

 

[The ADD]

Because those mothers live quite a life. They’re always working to put food on the table, however, going to games and shouting loudly apparently counts for something.

 

[TL15]

I’m very confused. Not that it’s easy but why not put your focus and energy on the kids education?

I’ll tell you this (as a former college football player who did well academically)

It’s not that easy. For me (and only speaking for myself) I had a single mom who was as involved as she could be. But growing up I (like most athletic boys) gravitated toward sports. I played sports with my friends, played sport video games, watched sports on TV, etc. from a young age. I wasn’t influenced to focus on sports over school, my mom (and the educational system) taught me that in order to stay on the teams I was playing on, I had to keep my grades high (and I did )


I admit I didn’t read the full article, but what does get lost in the sports vs. academia conversation is that playing team sports can instill values that go well beyond the playing field. You learn discipline, team work, healthy respect of authority, dedication toward a goal, how to bounce back from adversity or disappointment, etc. It’s not that these lessons cannot be taught elsewhere, but they were definitely reinforced in me during my years of playing sports. I wouldn’t be the man I am without being on all of the teams and learning with and from my teammates and coaches

 

[PortCityProphet]

Long as there's poverty there will be football.
Pretty simple.

 

[Jhoon]

Long as there's poverty there will be football.
Pretty simple.

There’s a never ending supply of dumb people who want to get hit in the head?

 

[TRY GOD]

if you notice white parents are now actually signing their kids up for basketball. They're putting their kids into expensive programs that give them skills by people who helped train professionals and collegic players. They're using money to start to box blacks put of basketball.

 

[The ADD]

If its a good article why are you copy pasting the whole thing dog? Let em get some clicks. Brehs will take over college baseball and lacrosse if we shifted focus



She doesnt even have a GED herself? What could she help him with it.

She also never played a snap in her life but has found resources to help on that front. Is academics to tough to do the same?

 

[The ADD]

I’ll tell you this (as a former college football player who did well academically)

It’s not that easy. For me (and only speaking for myself) I had a single mom who was as involved as she could be. But growing up I (like most athletic boys) gravitated toward sports. I played sports with my friends, played sport video games, watched sports on TV, etc. from a young age. I wasn’t influenced to focus on sports over school, my mom (and the educational system) taught me that in order to stay on the teams I was playing on, I had to keep my grades high (and I did )


I admit I didn’t read the full article, but what does get lost in the sports vs. academia conversation is that playing team sports can instill values that go well beyond the playing field. You learn discipline, team work, healthy respect of authority, dedication toward a goal, how to bounce back from adversity or disappointment, etc. It’s not that these lessons cannot be taught elsewhere, but they were definitely reinforced in me during my years of playing sports. I wouldn’t be the man I am without being on all of the teams and learning with and from my teammates and coaches

I don’t disagree with your point and that mirrors my general upbringing. My point is more about football being their only path to success. As we both know there are other options for team sports that aren’t football.

 

[PortCityProphet]

There’s a never ending supply of dumb people who want to get hit in the head?

There's a never ending supply of poor people who will take the chances to make an extremely nice living.
Same reason the military stays full. Those poor people put up a bigger risk to make less and work longer.
These are things people in poverty do to get out.
Simple.

 

[TL15]

I don’t disagree with your point and that mirrors my general upbringing. My point is more about football being their only path to success. As we both know there are other options for team sports that aren’t football.

And maybe I lost that point since I didn’t read the full article.

I agree there are other sports to focus on. Visual representation is a hell of a drug though. When you watch tv and you see people who look like you and have the skill set you do (speed, athleticism) it’s hard to veer away from that. It’s more natural for a young black kid to want to play football than it is for them to want to play volleyball purely based on the optics of the sport (both the demography of the players and the skill set of the players)

 

[Jhoon]

And maybe I lost that point since I didn’t read the full article.

I agree there are other sports to focus on. Visual representation is a hell of a drug though. When you watch tv and you see people who look like you and have the skill set you do (speed, athleticism) it’s hard to veer away from that. It’s more natural for a young black kid to want to play football than it is for them to want to play volleyball purely based on the optics of the sport (both the demography of the players and the skill set of the players)

We will dominate whatever we do because we are the original man.

 

[The ADD]

And maybe I lost that point since I didn’t read the full article.

I agree there are other sports to focus on. Visual representation is a hell of a drug though. When you watch tv and you see people who look like you and have the skill set you do (speed, athleticism) it’s hard to veer away from that. It’s more natural for a young black kid to want to play football than it is for them to want to play volleyball purely based on the optics of the sport (both the demography of the players and the skill set of the players)

Indeed and in towns like Colquit football is everything.

There is a bigger long term conversation what black kids are being pushed towards.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

African-American kids should play soccer (football).

 

[KingJay]

if you notice white parents are now actually signing their kids up for basketball. They're putting their kids into expensive programs that give them skills by people who helped train professionals and collegic players. They're using money to start to box blacks put of basketball.

They generally lack the physical gifts to compete with us, they may make inroads but they'll never box us out of the game. You're right tho, a lot of them are doing this. D1 scholarships otw

 

[TRY GOD]

They generally lack the physical gifts to compete with us, they may make inroads but they'll never box us out of the game. You're right tho, a lot of them are doing this. D1 scholarships otw

Those D1 scholarships are starting to matriculate back into little white kids hand now. Wait for the next 3 years. Watch them fly over states too