The NCAA Championship Game: My quick observations

by Dr. Boyce Watkins
www.BoyceWatkins.com

I turned on the NCAA championship for a second to see some of the action. Due to the boycott, I don’t watch too much of the March Madness stuff, especially the commercials. But the game, from what I saw, seemed pretty good.
Here is what I noticed during the game:

Over 90% of the points were scored by black players
The black players were the reason that the NCAA surely earned at least $40 million dollars from one game.

Had the black players not shown up, the game would have never taken place.
Both of the coaches, each of whom earn millions from college sports, are white.
When all of these guys end their college careers and attempt to get head coaching jobs at these same universities to whom they’ve given so much, odds say they will be denied the job.

The player of the year award went to a white player at The University of North Carolina who was clearly dominated in the game before the championship. He’s a great player, but won’t be selected first in the NBA draft. Had he been black, he would not have gotten that award. The same thing happened to Shaquille O’neal in 1992 when Christian Laetner of Duke received all the player of the year awards. Everyone knew clearly that the NCAA’s most dominant player that year was O’neal, and their careers in the NBA confirmed that reality.

Most telling is that a coach who wins games and does not graduate players will get a job over a coach who graduates players and does not win games. This is a clear reflection of the hypocrisy apparent at many of these so-called “academic” institutions. Educating athletes is far less important than getting them on the court; this fact is made clear by the incentive structure of coaching compensation schemes.

The NCAA is racist. That’s all there is to it. I would love to see the black players boycott the championship. Their mothers deserve a cut of that money, not just the coaches.

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