From Inside Higher Ed:
Data drawn from the National Collegiate Athletic Association's annual survey of graduation rates, analyzed by Inside Higher Ed, show that scholarship athletes make up at least 20 percent of the full-time black male undergraduates at 96 of the nearly 330 colleges that play sports in Division I, the NCAA's top competitive level. At 46 of those colleges, according to the data, which are from 2005-6, at least a third of the black male population play a sport. And at 31 one of them, football players alone make up at least a quarter of the black undergraduate men.
All told, male athletes make up about 3 percent of full-time male students at Division I institutions.
Whee!
Whatever you're typing, "Uncle Al," I'm not interested. Save us both some time, and stop now.
Are there any "historically black colleges" that are Div 1? that would presumably lower the 330, and make this even worse than it currently looks.
Whatever you're typing, "Uncle Al," I'm not interested. Save us both some time, and stop now.
According to GeneTree AncestryByDNA Uncle Al is 2% sub-Saharan African. Watch your potty mouth, cracker. "8^>)
Brian, many HBCU schools are in Division 1. Many are invisible to the general public because they play I-AA football (or whatever nonsense the NCAA calls it now), although most would recognize Grambling and Howard. Without big time football, their conferences don't have a big name or big fan base and don't rate much TV exposure in basketball (where there is no split).
There are white athletes and students at HBCU schools, so it might be fun to see if the stats work the other way at predominantly black schools. What fraction of their white students are athletes? Maybe Uncle Al can invert the data in the table at the end of the article and tell us. At Alabama A&M (first in the list) it is 17/80 for non-black athletes/students, while at Grambling it is 13/127.