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Out of a time out.
This is a photo of the 1986 Marshall University basketball team returning to the court after a timeout. The photo was taken at the University New Mexico during an NCAA basketball tournament. The photo shows four players walking on to the court. According to the words of James Henderson featured in the photo, the last one trailing. This team was united by green and white, color and race was not an issue on the team.
When African American players made these types of statements about their collegiate teams it was still refreshing and reassuring even in the eighties. The Marshall University campus sits it what we can call part of the Deep South, West Virginia. If African American students can play here in the eighties and feel free of many of the racial issues that still affected many outside of the gym then progress was definitely still being made. By the nineteen eighties college football fields and basketball courts had been targeted as a place, for many African Americans to escape the large social issues that plagued many of them back home. Some of these issues include racism, poverty, crime and countless other obstacles.
While some still sited progress in the eighties many still saw college campuses and collegiate sports as a disappointment and another source of frustration as many found out that even in the eighties and nineties things were still eerily similar to the past as it relates to the treatment of blacks. However with many of the issues that many faced in the eighties, I think it’s still fair to say that it was a lot better in the eighties and now, than maybe the sixties and seventies, and definitely any time before that. Race had always been a part of collegiate athletics but the difference for many seemed to be that the volume had been turned down and it just wasn’t as loud and as noticeable as it was in the past for many. There is still progress being made even from the eighties to now. Progress is more noticeable in some sports than others. Example, African American head basketball coaches can be seen on the court at many of the nation’s larger universities, but the same cannot be said for college football coaches at Football Bowl Subdivision schools. There are just 6 Black head coaches out 119 FBS programs. This is just another indication that while progress has been made there is still a ways to go.
Bibliography
The JBHE Foundation. "Black Teams,White Coaches:Racial Inequality in Coaching of College Sports." Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 2007: 36-37.
The JBHE Foundation. "The Dwindling Number of Black Head Coaches in Big-Time College Football." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 2003: 50-52.
Out of a time out.
This is a photo of the 1986 Marshall University basketball team returning to the court after a timeout. The photo was taken at the University New Mexico during an NCAA basketball tournament. The photo shows four players walking on to the court. According to the words of James Henderson featured in the photo, the last one trailing. This team was united by green and white, color and race was not an issue on the team.
When African American players made these types of statements about their collegiate teams it was still refreshing and reassuring even in the eighties. The Marshall University campus sits it what we can call part of the Deep South, West Virginia. If African American students can play here in the eighties and feel free of many of the racial issues that still affected many outside of the gym then progress was definitely still being made. By the nineteen eighties college football fields and basketball courts had been targeted as a place, for many African Americans to escape the large social issues that plagued many of them back home. Some of these issues include racism, poverty, crime and countless other obstacles.
While some still sited progress in the eighties many still saw college campuses and collegiate sports as a disappointment and another source of frustration as many found out that even in the eighties and nineties things were still eerily similar to the past as it relates to the treatment of blacks. However with many of the issues that many faced in the eighties, I think it’s still fair to say that it was a lot better in the eighties and now, than maybe the sixties and seventies, and definitely any time before that. Race had always been a part of collegiate athletics but the difference for many seemed to be that the volume had been turned down and it just wasn’t as loud and as noticeable as it was in the past for many. There is still progress being made even from the eighties to now. Progress is more noticeable in some sports than others. Example, African American head basketball coaches can be seen on the court at many of the nation’s larger universities, but the same cannot be said for college football coaches at Football Bowl Subdivision schools. There are just 6 Black head coaches out 119 FBS programs. This is just another indication that while progress has been made there is still a ways to go.
Bibliography
The JBHE Foundation. "Black Teams,White Coaches:Racial Inequality in Coaching of College Sports." Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 2007: 36-37.
The JBHE Foundation. "The Dwindling Number of Black Head Coaches in Big-Time College Football." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 2003: 50-52.