The University of Tennessee: Clay Travis, Rocky Top, and What Happens When a program goes 365Black

University of Tennessee team shot: Used frequently in solving crimes in Knoxville

There's this white guy named Clay Travis who wrote a book called Dixieland Delight. He chronicled a season in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) by going to one of the 12-members of the conference campus each week and writing about his experiences.

He followed that up with a book called On Rocky Top: A Front-Row Seat to the End of an Era, where he spent the 2008 season following the University of Tennessee football program (his alma mater) and its embattled coach, Phillip Fulmer.

Before we continue, it's important to note that the U of Tennessee is located in Knoxville, the location of the infamous Knoxville Massacre. Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, the former a senior at Tennessee, were brutally murdered and raped by five Black people; George Thomas, Letalvis Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson,Vanessa Coleman, and Eric Boyd.

It should be noted that Christian and Newsom were white. Phil Fulmer actually recruited Davidson for the University of Tennessee football team, as this article makes clear:

Davidson attended Jackson Christian School and even led a bible study group at his church.  His foster parents arranged tutoring for him in math and reading and gave him his own room in their five-bedroom, middle-class home.  When asked, Flo Rudd said Davidson's mother showed no interest in him while he lived with them.  Former UT coach Phil Fulmer did show interest saying of Davidson's playing that "this is what we look for" when he was scouting the school. 

"This is what we look for" is a prophetic statement from Phil Fulmer, because recruiting Black athlete-students who have a difficult time abiding by the law has become a trademark of the Tennessee football program. Take a look at this article from 2006 in the USA TODAY:

Before University of Tennessee football players get a playbook, they get a Think Card. It is an orange card small enough to fit into their wallets. On the front it says, "THINK," followed by a series of questions designed to help the player assess his behavior and make the appropriate decision. 

On the back of the card are the home and cell phone numbers of the Tennessee coaching staff so players can call for help.

The Think Card is part of a safety net of counselors, tutors and role models the university has been constructing since 1995 after eight football players had run-ins with the law in a one-year span. 

But during the last 16 months, players frequently have fallen through. Tennessee football players have been in at least 20 incidents involving shoplifting, assault, gun charges, motor vehicle citations, disturbing the peace and failing a drug test. 

Even after coach Phillip Fulmer gathered his players for a meeting during spring practice in April and told them the bad behavior had to stop, linebacker Daniel Brooks and defensive back Corey Campbell were suspended after off-field incidents.

Brooks pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of driving without a license and three other charges were dismissed by a Knox County General Sessions Court judge. Brooks will miss the first three games this season.

While court dates await other Volunteers players, Fulmer is scheduled to face reporters today in Birmingham, Ala., at the annual Southeastern Conference media days.

In an interview last week, Fulmer tightened his lips and took a deep breath when asked about the recent incidents. "It's embarrassing to our administration, to our fans, to our coaches, to me and to a large portion of the other kids," said Fulmer, Tennessee's head coach since 1992. "You would hope that young men who have the opportunities they have, to be on the stage they're on, would make better choices."

Assault accusations 

Among the poorer choices:

• Carolyn Goodrich said her son thought he had been hit accidentally by an elbow during a pickup basketball game Jan. 12. 

It wasn't until the next day, while looking at a university surveillance videotape, that Deshaun Goodrich saw he had been punched on the right side of his face when he wasn't looking by a Tennessee football player.

"He'll have a metal plate in his mouth the rest of his life," Carolyn Goodrich said.

Tony McDaniel, the 6-7, 300-pound defensive tackle who was shown on the videotape hitting the 6-4, 205-pound Goodrich, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and is scheduled to enter a plea Thursday in Knoxville General Sessions Court. 

• Shadiyah Murphy also never saw who broke his jaw March 4. The Tennessee student said he was hit from behind in an altercation with several Vols football players at a fraternity dance, according to court affidavits and police incident reports.

Murphy's jaw had to be wired shut to heal.

Jerod Mayo, a freshman linebacker, and Robert Ayers, a freshman defensive end, have been charged with aggravated assault in the Murphy case and are scheduled to appear in court Monday to answer charges.

• Quantavios Emerson did see who hit him, opening a cut on his head that required four staples to close April 10 in a fight in a dormitory lobby. Emerson, who was in the fight with Bret Smith, a Tennessee wide receiver, and Brent Schaeffer, a quarterback, said he was struck while on the floor.

Smith and Schaeffer pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and were ordered to pay restitution to Emerson. Smith was suspended from the team; Schaeffer left the program voluntarily.

Vols' safety net 

The school has devoted resources and considerable effort to the issue of student-athlete conduct. At least three full-time employees of the football program have duties that include steering players from trouble.

• Former Tennessee quarterback Condredge Holloway is assistant athletics director for player relations and counsels players on their behavior off the field.

• Running backs coach Trooper Taylor, the assistant head coach, also handles player development issues.

• Judy Jackson, the associate director of student-athlete welfare, has an office with a window looking out on the indoor practice facility. She coordinates players' participation in community-related projects through the G.O. V.O.L.S. service program.

The list of football players who have participated in the program in Knoxville is substantially longer than the list of players who recently have faced criminal charges. During the spring semester alone, football players logged more than 1,000 hours of community service, from Habitat for Humanity to reading in schools to Boys & Girls Club activities and others, according to a record kept by the athletics department.

The Knoxville Police Department has assigned an officer to act as liaison between the Tennessee team and the police department and to counsel players. 

Tennessee's athletics department also is participating in a program sponsored, in part, by the SEC. MVP, Mentors in Violence Prevention, is a program conducted by Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society in which college athletes try to teach youngsters how to avoid confrontation.

A cycle of problems? 

The caretakers of Tennessee's football program — President John D. Petersen, in his second year at the school after coming from the University of Connecticut; athletics director Mike Hamilton, on the job since July 2003 and at the school since 1992; and Fulmer — say there is no systemic problem with the program and college football programs across the country have the same issues with handling young, immature football players.

"When we adjusted the NCAA rules a couple of years ago to limit the amount of contact with prospective student-athletes, I think it limited the ability of coaches to get to know the athletes better," Hamilton said. "You're having to make quicker judgments sometimes assessing a student-athlete's ability to fit in."

Asked if he thought there was a recruiting problem at Tennessee and if the Vols were recruiting athletes at risk to get in trouble, Peterson said the university's issues with athletes are a "cyclical thing we see."

'Cyclical thing we see..." Well, when you recruit primarily Black athletes from Black Undertow cities that white people never go to (and when they do, the first thing they do is lock their car door), you are going to bring thug athletes to a Predominately White Institutions (PWI). After Fulmer was fired from Tennessee in 2008, the next coach Lane Kiffin carried on the Vols tradition of recruiting Black criminal athlete-students:

Safety Janzen Jackson and receiver Nu'Keese Richardson, two of coach Lane Kiffin's most prized signees from his first recruiting class, were among three Tennessee football players arrested early Thursday morning in Knoxville on charges of attempted armed robbery.


The third player arrested is also a freshman, defensive back Mike Edwards. It was not immediately clear if the players have attorneys.

UT coaching legend Gen. Neyland

What's funny is that the University of Tennessee football program hasn't been that great lately, even with such highly recruited Black athlete-students representing the school. The problems haven't stopped either off the field:

The University of Tennessee no longer can blame wayward ways on whatever lax attitudes existed during the lightning-quick Lane Kiffin era. Nor can it attribute the number of Vols names that wound up on the Knoxville police blotter to Phil Fulmer's dwindling attention span in his final years with the orange.

No, in the wake of the accusations that are flying after last night's bar fight it's time for Tennessee to take a deep look at its fabric and culture, because there is just something inherently wrong there.

Early this morning, police charged UT freshman receiver Da'Rick Rogers -- the plum catch of this year's recruiting class -- disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in connection with a brawl that left an off-duty police officer unconscious and bloodied in the street with a head wound.

Rogers, 18, is one of at least four Vol football players being questioned about the injuries Officer Robert Capouellez, 24, suffered around 1:50 a.m.

Also in the mix: Darren Myles Jr., a sophomore safety, who in April was charged with public intoxication just hours after the Orange and White game; Denarius Moore, 21, a senior wide receiver; Montori Hughes, 19, a sophomore defensive tackle.

Police say that, according to witnesses, the officer was kicked several times while on the ground.
Last November, three football players were arrested on charges of attempted armed robbery. Two were among the most prized signees of Kiffin's first recruiting class, and were quickly dismissed from the team.

To understand your typical white SEC football that cheers on a team full of the high-character individuals like the University of Tennessee recruits, one only needs to read Clay Travis's writings. He has spent an entire life living vicariously through the exploits of people that he has done everything possible to avoid in his private life.

Cheering on a predominately Black football program is... strange, and Travis's work is important in understanding this phenomenon. After all, it was only in 1968 that the University of Tennessee football program integrated. Sports Illustrated didn't consider it a momentous occasion worthy of forever commemorating, but published this:

There were just two and a half minutes left when Tennessee found itself on its 20-yard line with, really, only one last chance to tie the game. But now Wyche proved he was no ordinary quarterback. At this point he had hit only nine of 26 passes and ought to have been discouraged, but he had to keep passing. He managed two short completions—and then found Lester McClain, a tall sophomore from Nashville who is Tennessee's first Negro varsity player, with a big 14-yarder when it was fourth and three. The roar from the stands rivaled that during halftime when the band formed a Confederate flag.

Yes, the band formed a Confederate Flag. All SEC schools used to play "Dixie" and wave the Confederate Flag at game, but with the recruitment of Black athlete-students, those traditions were tossed. Now though, every Black "first" (no matter how insignificant or minor its achievement) is celebrated with a fervor once reserved for actual events worthy of praise. Here is a recent article from the Knoxville News that celebrates the integration as a moment that Tennessee football - already with a rich tradition of winning - decided to enter the 20th century:

Tennessee opened the 1968 football season on Sept. 14 against Georgia on the new Tartan Turf at Neyland stadium.


History was in one of its cycles of change. McClain's arrival on campus for fall drills in September 1967 came more than 20 years after Tennessee had forfeited a Dec. 23, 1946, basketball game against Duquesne at McKeesport, Pa., rather than play against a team that refused to bench an African-American player. U.T. historian Milton Klein chronicled that event. That seems so long ago.

McClain came to Knoxville as a scholarship athlete 13 years after the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision, and a year after Kentucky had signed Greg Page and Nat Northington in football and Vanderbilt had likewise inked Pearl High School's Perry Wallace in hoops. 

Doug Dickey led the way for the Vols, saying the time was right to make the move. The times might have been troubled and uncertain, but the reminder is always present that whenever significant social advances are made, somebody or a number of somebodies, in this case McClain, Dickey, Holloway, Bill Battle, and/or Jimmy Streater, have to lead the way. 

Here's a quick history lesson. Northington was recruited in the 1965-1966 UK recruiting push out of Louisville, and had played sparingly in the Kentucky-Ole Miss game in 1967. He did not letter that season, according to Kentucky records. 

Page, also signed by the Wildcats that year, came from Middlesboro. He was paralyzed after an injury in a non-contact drill Aug. 22, 1967, and died a month or so later, Sept. 29. He is listed as a 1967 letter winner in the Kentucky Football Media Guide. After Page's death, Northington transferred to Western Kentucky.
The Tennessee-Kentucky freshman basketball game in the 1967-68 season, Feb. 2, 1968, Kentucky 94, Tennessee 74, was played in Middlesboro as a benefit for Page.

McClain had been one of two African-American players recruited in that 1966-67 recruiting season. The other, fullback Albert Davis of Alcoa (often referred to in media reports of that day as "Alcoa's great Negro running back"), was not admitted to the University, so the torch was passed to McClain and he played and played well. 

He finished in 1970 with 70 career catches for 1,003 yards and 10 touchdowns. He had an 82-yard TD reception from Bobby Scott in the 1969 Memphis State game. He was determined to make the best of things, despite a rough patch or two along the way. 

"There is a time you question whether you want to pack your bags and go home," McClain said. "I would be lying if I said I never considered that. But I just couldn't. I knew the next day the headlines would say, 'Lester McClain, first black athlete, quits U-T.'"

McClain ended up being the trailblazer and history will positively record his contributions to the Vol program.

 In 2007-2008, the UT football program was 51 percent Black. The enrollment for the University of Tennessee was only 3.5 percent Black male. In The New Plantation, University of Georgia professor Billy Hawkins writes:

Recruiting Black males specifically for their athletic ability is an institutional racist practice that reinforces belief's about Blacks intellectual capabilities and athletic abilities. It creates unique experiences for Black males who do not participate in varsity team sports, as well as, for Black males who are highly visible as celebrity athletes. 

Let's be honest, Mr. Hawkins: less than five percent of Black males are academically qualified for college work. Lowering academic standards for the sake of "diversity" and upping Black enrollment is a tried and true measure for schools like Tennessee. The majority of the football program at Tennessee would not be in Knoxville were it not for their athletic ability.

The University of Tennessee football program has the largest recruiting budget in the nation, because - it is said - the state of Tennessee doesn't produce enough quality athletes. This is, of course, nonsense. Tennessee won in segregated times with predominately white Tennessee players. Now, because SEC fans have been conditioned to believe "Black is Best," white Tennessee high school athletes rarely get looks from the state's flagship university.

They might have the grades, but they don't have the right melanin. It is in On Rocky Top that we learn just how conditioned white southerners have become to the concept of Black athletic supremacy. Before the 2008 UT-South Carolina game, Clay Travis was in the UT locker-room and writes this on p.262-263:

Then Vol sophomore Eric Berry stands. 


"When I say , "Killas,' y'all say, "Killas,' and then when I say, 'Trained assassins,' y'all say, 'Trained assassins,' and then when I say, "want some,' y'lall say, "Gone get some.'"


Then Berry starts, "Killas!"


"Killas!" the team replies in uinson. 


"Trained assassins!" Berry chants. 



"Trained assassins!"

"Want some," Berry leads. 


"Gone get some!"


"Let's go bang a motherfucker, man!" Berry yells in conclusion. This cheer seems to get the team fired up [SBPDL note: they would lose the game, bad]. I'm kind of fired up. Of course, I have no ideas what it means. In fact, I've never felt whiter in my life. Later student manager Andrew Haag will confess, "I don't know what he was saying, either, but he's Eric Berry. He's so cool, he can do anything and it's cool."

No, actually Eric Berry isn't that cool. He can only do anything because he got a scholarship to Tennessee because of his athletic ability. In a simpler age, when America was an actual country (now it has been replaced by the proposition Black-Run America), Haag's hero who he thought was "so cool" would have been a white defense back.

Now, it's some ghetto thug (Berry plays in the NFL, so the usage of the term "ghetto thug" accurately describes 65 percent of the leagues players), so Haag is left convinced that anything he does is "cool" though he probably avoids Black people and majority Black cities in every other decision in his life.

It's sick, when you think about it. Black athlete-students, who have no business attending a major university based on their academic resumes, receive as much help as possible to succeed. Even if that means cheating:

The past decade-plus in University of Tennessee athletics history is as checkered as the end zones in Neyland Stadium. Athletic department successes have been undermined by academic fraud allegations involving the football team, investigations into the recruiting practices of one-and-done football coach Lane Kiffin, and suspensions for basketball players arrested on drug and weapons charges. 

Into this atmosphere stepped Fritz Polite. An assistant professor in the UT Department of Exercise, Sport and Leisure Studies, Polite was recruited to Knoxville four years ago to implement ILEAD — the Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Diversity. That charge, combined with his extensive sports background (he played and coached football professionally and worked with the New York Giants on profiling potential draft picks), has put Polite on a new extracurricular course — mentoring African-American male student-athletes. "They need to look at someone outside of football and basketball as a mentor," Polite says. "They need to look at engineers and lawyers and professors — the types of people who are right here on campus." 

Polite has so far assembled a team of 10 interested faculty members, and he has sought the input, if not outright approval, of athletic department officials. "I'm going to do this with or without them, because as a faculty member I have the right to engage any student on this campus at any time," he says, having begun mentoring athletes last fall. "And I'm hoping that the athletic department will be open and willing to work with us to try to benefit these students." 

Historically, the benefit in the relationship between mostly white colleges and universities and their black student-athletes has been one-sided to the point of exploitation, according to Billy Hawkins, associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Georgia and author of The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions, published earlier this year by Palgrave Macmillan. "If you look at the relationship initiated by a slave owner, it's purely economic. When we look at an institution's relationship with black student-athletes, and more specifically black male athletes in the sports of football and basketball, it too is purely economic," Hawkins says. "They are generally selected or migrate from communities that are socially and culturally different, and placed into this environment that is somewhat of a culture shock to them. No political power, whatsoever, when you talk about making decisions — even choosing a major."
That is not to say that non-black student-athletes escape exploitation, Hawkins acknowledges, but blacks are proportionally more likely to gain entrance to college based on athletic prowess even if they're ill-prepared for the academic experience. At the same time, those athletes are relied on in greater numbers than their non-black contemporaries to produce a profitable product. "The NCAA generates 90 percent of its revenue from March Madness. More than 60 percent of the athletes who compete in the tournament are black," Hawkins says. "We hear PSAs about how more than 400,000 athletes are going pro in something besides sports. Well, less than one percent of that 400,000 is generating more than 90 percent of the NCAA's revenue, which I think is alarming." 

When U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recommended in March that men's basketball teams with low graduation rates be banned from post-season play, the NCAA responded with a statement citing federal graduation statistics that place all student-athletes — and African-American males, in particular — on a higher trajectory of success than their demographic peers in the general student population. Forty-nine percent of African-American male student-athletes graduate, compared to 38 percent of black males in general, the numbers say.

So Phil Fulmer praised one of the Black individuals who killed Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in the infamous "Knoxville Massacre" incident. He stated, "This is exactly the kind of guy we recruit."

Judging by the UT record of off-the-field problems involving the Black athlete-students that represent Rocky Top now, it obvious that the only type of athlete Tennessee recruits is of the Black thug variety.

Boise State's All-White Receiving Corps Decimates the University of Georgia's HBCU Defense

Matt Miller, one of Boise State's all-white starting receivers, scores against coal-Black UGA's defense

From here on out, expect two reviews of major college football programs each week. We'll mix it up a lot more than we did this week as things were heavily football centric (however, this was one of our biggest weeks ever from a traffic point of view).

I missed a number of important stories by concentrating on college football and didn't get the Auburn, University of Alabama, or Boise State previews done because of traveling and business commitments. One of those stories was in Portland - that town that actually laments and bemoans its whiteness - where a shooting at high school football game (yes, it was Black people shooting at Black people) sparked police to be out "in full strength" because of a fear of Black people retaliating against Black people:

Mayor Sam Adams decried the gun violence that broke out again in Portland Friday night after the Jefferson High School football game and said Portland police are "out in full strength" to prevent any tit-for-tat shootings. 

"We are already out in full strength ... civilian outreach workers, all of our police resources are out at full strength and very vigilant," he said. "Our first line of efforts is to prevent these gun crimes, our second when a gun crime like this does happen, our priority then is to prevent retaliation. This is horrible, this is tragic. We've had too many African American teenage Portlanders murdered in this city, and we are going everything we can to stop it.

"We need people's help, though," he said. "We need more witnesses. We still have cases where we have no witnesses, where people have been injured and killed." 

Six teenagers were wounded in the area of North Albina Avenue and Jessup Street around 11:20 p.m. The mother of one of the wounded youths said her son had been released from the hospital today, but the other five teens were still being treated.

"To be very blunt, illegal guns have swamped the city," Adams said Saturday  morning after being updated by police on the latest incident. He said it was too early to say whether Friday night's shooting was part of the violent grudge matches between rival sets of African American gangs which have claimed at least seven lives this year.

 To be even more blunt, Portland has been swamped by delusional Disingenuous White Liberal (DWL) rule, and a peaceful, bucolic city has elected officials afraid of stating that Black people are dangerous and cause a disproportionate amount of the crime - violent and property - in the city.

A family obligation caused me to miss the historic Boise State/ University of Georgia match-up at the Georgia Dome last night, as I had planned on attending the game in person.

The University of Georgia football team - representing a school that is more than 90 percent white, with less than 1.5 percent of the enrollment being Black male - looked like a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) program, with 20 out of the 22 starters being Black athletes. A majority of this athletes are "special admits" to the university, lacking the mental aptitude to get into UGA on their own academic merit.

Earlier in the day, Brigham Young University (BYU) defeated the University of Mississippi 14-13. A majority white team from Provo - full of "white boys" in the words of BYU safety Daniel Sorensen - came to Oxford and outplayed the university "formerly known as the Rebels."

The score isn't indicative of the humiliation Ole Miss Black Bears faced yesterday; the school has castrated its former traditions and history in an all-out bid to erase the 'legacy of racism and all-white teams' and embrace a form of Blackness that Eddie Robinson from Grambling would shy away from.

Before Southeastern Conference (SEC) decided to lower academics standards and recruit primarily Black athletes to fill their rosters, HBCU's like Grambling and Southern would recruit Black athletes and the Black coaches there wouldn't be afraid of disciplining them. At SEC schools, discipline equals discrimination and a whole new set of rules and standards were erected to protect white coaches from being called racist.

Basically, that means no rule and no standards.

Watching Mark Richt's UGA program is like watching a prequel to a future episode of COPS. The amount of Black athletes who have gotten into trouble at the school, during their recruitment or upon leaving the institution is staggering. The same can be said of the University of Tennessee, the University of Florida, Auburn, Alabama and other SEC programs.

It's sad and tragic indictment of the type of players these programs feel are necessary to winning football games.

Boise State brought a much different football program to Atlanta yesterday and reminded UGA alumni of the types of teams that once suited up in the red and black uniforms. 1971 was the last year UGA fielded an all-white team (in the 1970s, Vince Dooley would have a hard time with integration as a Black player would pull a gun on a white player in 1976) and Boise State brought a team of predominately white starters to play a game against the Bulldogs HBCU squad.

Boise State last played UGA in 2005 and was blown out by one of the Bulldogs best teams in the past three decades. This Bulldog had all of the athleticism and natural talent you here ascribed to Black athletes, and Boise State would bring three starting white receivers (the Stormtroopers) to Atlanta and an immobile quarterback in Heisman Trophy candidate Kellen Moore.

The announcers actually compared him to a character in Leave it to Beaver, the 1950s show, obviously making fun of boring white appearance and lack of tattoos or dread-locks. Moore, acting more as a surgeon then a fictional television character, cut the all-Black UGA defense to shreds, threading pass after pass to his all-white receivers and tight ends.

His receivers, executing each route with the precision of the Princeton offense in basketball, raced swiftly through the UGA all-Black secondary. No dropped passes. No drop off in productive or effectiveness from losing two Black receivers from last year's Boise State squad (both are now in the NFL). Boise State's all-white receiving corps was unstoppable, and UGA's HBCU defense - and the almost all-white UGA crowd at the Georgia Dome - looked on incredulously at what they were witnessing.

Haven't we long been told that white guys can't play receiver? Isn't this what recruiting guru Tom Lemming told Michael Lewis in The Blind Side? Tail back and receiver is the exclusive territory of Black athletes in the SEC and for many college programs, though Boise State seems indifferent to playing by those recruiting rules.

Dallas Burrough, Matt Miller, Kirby Moore and other Boise State receivers (the Stormtroopers) ran precise routes and blew by UGA's HBCU secondary and defensive players. You have to wonder how many UGA alumni and current students thought "what are these white boys doing beating our might Bulldogs?"

I'd have asked them, "What are all these academically unqualified Black athletes doing playing for and representing UGA, when hundreds of qualified white high school athletes get overlooked each in the recruiting process by a university seemingly dedicated to fielding an HBCU football team?"

It is teams like Boise State and BYU that give white guys the chance to compete and play. You can recruit all the four and five star Rivals.com and Scout.com Black athletes, but you can't quantify character and heart during that process. In Tom Barbour's Blue Collar Mentality: Boise State's Rise to Football Prominence,
he states as much. Writing about former Boise State walk-on running back Brock Forsey - a white running back who he called "The Sword in the Stone" - Barbour states his "never quit" mentality represents the Bronco's whole outlook.

Sadly, Forsey wouldn't quit football, but he would basically be told not to play anymore. After an amazing career at Boise State, the Chicago Bears drafted him. Here is what Sports Illustrated wrote in an article on Toby Gerhart - discussing how a white running back faces a backlash for being a white guy in a "Black" position:

For those who do reach the NFL, the path doesn't get any easier. In 2003 Brock Forsey was a Bears backup who started one game in place of injured starter Anthony Thomas and was spectacular, rushing for 134 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries. The next week Thomas returned to the lineup and Forsey went back to the bench, getting only three carries. He never started another NFL game. "It's hard to tell exactly what happened," says Forsey, who starred at Boise State and is now an executive at a title and escrow company in Nampa, Idaho. "No one ever said anything about race. But there may be some preconceived notions out there. A white guy from Idaho isn't what you have in mind when you envision an NFL running back."

Evaluating players shouldn't be about what we envision but what we see. That lesson should have been learned from the decades of discrimination against black quarterbacks at colleges and in the pros. Despite the obvious parallels, no one seems to be as concerned that white tailbacks are getting the same treatment. "I did dozens of interviews about the lack of opportunity for an African-American to be a QB back in the 1980s and early '90s," says Richard Lapchick, director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at Central Florida, "but this is only the second time I have been asked about the lack of opportunity for whites to be running backs." Maybe that's because racism isn't the culprit here; it's mostly white coaches and talent evaluators who are choosing black running backs over white ones. But it doesn't make the color line any less real.

How many countless, nameless athletes in the South and other regions of the country have similar stories to Forsey's, but at the high school level. Never getting a chance to play college ball because college scouts and evaluators have a bias against recruiting white athletes in a time period where the perceived superiority of the Black athlete is ingrained in the national conscious.

If that is not the case, why Sportsbore.com say this about Boise State:

Last night’s Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was a great match-up of second-tier, FBS programs. I haven’t seen that many white guys on a football field since 1964! I’m not being a hater, and I admit that Boise State and TCU both have great football programs.

Only teams like Louisiana State (LSU), Auburn, Oklahoma, UGA, Alabama and other programs that have nearly all-white student bodies but field football teams that look like HBCU programs are considered "legitimate" in the eyes of sports fans. They have been conditioned to believe this by ESPN and a conscious effort on the part of scouts and college coaches to only recruit a certain type of athlete: Black.

What Boise State did to UGA (they were winning 35-14 before UGA scored a late garbage touchdown to make the score 35-21) will not be compared to the 1970 University of Alabama vs. University of Southern California football game. An all-white BAMA squad - who had had uncharacteristically bad seasons the prior two years - was destroyed in Birmingham 42-21 by an integrated USC team (lost in history is the fact that BAMA, with only one Black starter, would beat USC 17-10 the next year in LA):

 The game, a 42-21 Trojans rout, couldn't have left a stronger impression on the Alabama faithful. The Trojans gained 559 yards, nearly 300 more than the Tide. Mr. Cunningham rumbled for 135 yards and two touchdowns, and needed just 12 carries to do it. "They were good players," Mr. Cunningham says of the Tide. "By no means am I implying that they weren't. But we were bigger, stronger and faster."

Alabama's football program first established itself more than 80 years ago, becoming the South's flagship team when it went west and won the 1926 Rose Bowl. The Tide excelled in the Depression years and won three national titles in the 1960s under Mr. Bryant. But the slowness of the South to accept integration started to hurt the Tide, culminating in that 1970 season opener against USC.

The legend of that night, which has become known as the Cunningham game, has been exaggerated, misremembered, misunderstood and mythologized. Books overstate Mr. Cunningham's yards and touchdowns. Mr. Cunningham is famously said to have done more to integrate Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King Jr. did in 20 years. Aside from whether he did or not, the quote is alternately attributed to Mr. Bryant and two former assistants. "I've been here 20 years," says Taylor Watson, curator of the Paul W. Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa, "and I've never been able to figure it out."

According to myth, Mr. Bryant took Mr. Cunningham to the Tide locker room after the game to show his team what a football player looks like. Mr. Cunningham says Mr. Bryant did make the unusual gesture of speaking with him after the game but just to congratulate him. "It wasn't anything earth-shattering," he says.

Hard to believe, but 40 years ago SEC football programs were almost all-white. And they were winning championships. In Charles H. Martin's book Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports 1890-1980, he writes of integration (p. 301):

Successful integrated teams also served as racially inclusive symbols around white and black southerners could unite in a common cause, thereby fostering racial reconciliation and inventing a new shared tradition.

Looking at the state of major southern cities like Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, Memphis, Jackson, Mobile, Augusta, Savannah, Charlotte, Nashville, Orlando, Tampa, and Columbia, it's obvious this has not occurred. White people will abandon every city that goes majority Black, erecting new suburbs far away from these new Black metropolises that are inevitably run into the ground as the myth of Black Buying Power is exposed when malls and shopping centers that were once successful close.

It is only on fall Saturday's that white southerners come to cheer on their football programs that resemble HBCU squads. As stated, Ole Miss gave away its proud traditions and history in a Faustian Pact for football glory.

Their HBCU squad got beat by a team of "white boys" from BYU yesterday and you have to wonder how many white alumni and white students went back to the famous "Grove" (the best place to tailgate in America) and sipped cocktails waxing about the "good-ole days" of Ole Miss football when the school reflected the majority student population and actually won games.

Yesterday in the Georgia Dome, you have to wonder how many white alumni and current students from UGA - who laughed at the Boise State team when they came onto the field for being too white and looking like a team from pre-integration days - thought, as the white receiving corps and white defensive players thoroughly embarrassed their HBCU program, "man, these white boys can play. Why don't we have any?"

We tolerate Black crime and the abandonment of major cities because we believe that without Black football and basketball players are sports would not be legitimate.

That Boise State brought a team of majority white starters - including white players at the "forbidden to whitey position of receiver" dominating the HBCU UGA defense - to Atlanta and won convincingly over a coal-Black UGA squad (in 2007 - 2008, though Black males made up only 1.8 of the student body population, the UGA team was 72 percent Black) should cause a few people to take notice.


They won't though. Portland, Oregon will still require police to be out "in full force" to deal with the threat of Black people killing other Black people. Major cities will require curfews to deal with unruly Black teenagers, security measures primarily needed during times of natural disaster or war. And through it all, if the Black kids that cause the city to be locked down have athletic ability, SEC schools and other college programs will have no problem recruiting them.

This is why America is no longer a superpower. It all starts with sports. Boise State showed that white guys can play football, beating a UGA team that looked like a HBCU program.

If Bear Bryant were around, he'd probably have looked at a white receiver like Matt Miller - who UGA's Black athletes couldn't cover - and say, "that is what a football player looks like."

Sadly, most SEC coaches wouldn't have given him the time of day during the recruiting period. His speed and receiving ability could never overcome his lack of melanin.

White sports fans have been conditioned to believe this of all white athletes. What Boise State did to UGA on September 3, 2011 will one day replace the mythology of the 1970 USC-BAMA game, because Black-Run America (BRA) will fall.

Thank God for Earl Warren! The University of Georgia, Black "Special Admission" Football Players, and the Racial Breakdown of 2007-2008 Top 25 Teams

So let's have some fun. The below graph is from an article regarding "special admission" students to major colleges and universities for collegiate sports (and specially college football) compared to the overall student body population. Notice the University of Georgia (UGA): 94 percent of football players are "special admission" students.

Such scholars are these predominately Black "special admission" athletes!

Those numbers come from 1999-2000, so you have to wonder how high those numbers are now. The graph entitled Black Athletes Racialized Experiences is from a Black professor at the UGA (Billy Hawkins) book The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominately White NCAA Institutions. He wrote the book to attack Predominately White Institutions (PWI) for using Black athlete-students unpaid labor (a college scholarship, room and board, and the opportunity to meet powerful alumni by representing a powerful brand - all major college teams in football are a "brand" to potential consumers - isn't enough)  to enrich their athletic departments.

What Mr. Watkins fails to admit is that the perceived need to utilize Black labor in college football is one that drives the market right now. Southeastern Conference (SEC) football programs didn't fully integrate until 1972, meaning that for most of their history schools like Auburn, Alabama, Louisiana State, and UGA had no Black players.

Well, these schools now sport football programs that have largely flipped in their racial composition. Notice that 72 percent of UGA's football program in 2007-2008 was Black, compared to only two percent of the undergraduates at UGA (well, Black males that is). UGA has historically had a low Black undergraduate problem; not because of discrimination, but because Black people lack the aptitude to get in to the school on their own merit.

If you are a prospective football player at UGA, don't worry: you'll get "special admission" status to attend the university. There, you can enroll in the academically challenging major known as Housing. A large percentage of Black football players are majored in Housing at UGA, in a practice commonly known as "clustering." This has been done at Auburn - Black players were "clustered" in the sociology department - and many other schools, because the majority of Black athlete-students lack the acumen to excel at any meaningful academic discipline, save an outlier like Florida State's celebrated Black Rhodes Scholar Myron Rolle.

Here's more on "clustering":

A talented football player heads to college with a dream to play professionally. He believes if he shows his best on the field, by the time he completes his NCAA eligibility, he will be drafted into the NFL. But the reality is that only 1.8 percent of college football players make it to the pros. 

While the NCAA has put reforms in place to help ensure college athletes graduate and are as academically prepared for life as they are physically, two researchers question whether this goal is really being met, finding that college football players tend to take certain classes that do not benefit them in the long run. Meanwhile, other experts say the researchers’ work might not go far enough. 

The NCAA uses a formula based on peer-group comparisons, called the Academic Progress Rate (APR), to measure academic success among scholarship student athletes. 

“While the goal of the APR, to increase graduation rates of athletes, is admirable, the means utilized by schools to avoid loss of scholarship could prove to be dubious,” Jeffrey J. Fountain and Peter S. Finley wrote in “Academic Majors of Upperclassmen Football Players in the Atlantic Coast Conference: An Analysis of Academic Clustering Comparing White and Minority Players.”

“A couple of years ago, I just happened to be looking at the media guide for the University of Miami [football team] and noticed as I was going through it that every minority player I saw had liberal arts as his major,” says Fountain, an assistant professor of sports management at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

“Of the 23 majors in liberal arts at the University of Miami, all of them were minority. Not a single white player,” Fountain says. “Some of these athletes are either selecting or being pushed toward something that doesn’t really have any value.”

Fountain and Finley reviewed the media guides for the football teams of 11 of the 12 schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference (the 12th school, Duke University, does not publish the majors of its football players). The study considered only upperclassmen who have declared majors. 

Clustering, the researchers maintain, occurs when 25 percent or more of an athletic team shares a single academic major. What they found is that minority players were clustered into specific academic programs at greater rates than white players. At six of the schools, 75 percent or more of the minority players had one of two majors that varied from social science to liberal arts or business management.

So judging by the racial breakdown of the football programs in the Top 25 in 2007-2008, it should be glaringly obvious that Black athlete-students attending these PWIs owe their acceptance and potential to prosper to their football skills alone. Few Black males attending these schools, many only attending because of the pressured need for PWIs to increase their minority enrollment or face pressure from outside sources.

Though the Black enrollment at SEC schools is incredibly low, because of the high-profile role Black football players on these teams, Black lawmakers have pushed for greater representation on the Board of Trustees governing these schools:

Talking about race, politics or football can be a recipe for conflict. Talking about all three at the same time? That's an engraved invitation to a duel, especially in South Carolina. 

It's no surprise, therefore, that black lawmakers in South Carolina caused a stir recently when they contemplated using black football recruits to boycott the flagship university over diversity issues. Concerned that the University of South Carolina's 22-member Board of Trustees might lose its lone black member, the lawmakers discussed calling on Gamecock football prospects to reconsider their college choice. While it's unclear how many, if any, recruits were ever contacted, the story alone has drawn attention to a diversity issue that concerns many. 

This is not the first time black lawmakers in the South have leaned on football recruits to apply political pressure, and the resurgence of the strategy again raises questions about the appropriateness of luring high school seniors into a racially charged debate.

Similar questions were raised in 2005, when lawmakers pressed Auburn University athletic prospects to go elsewhere in protest of the elimination of two positions held by black athletics officials. The administrators were dismissed as part of a reorganization that also included the promotions of two black officials and the removal of a white employee.

Billy Hawkins, a University of Georgia associate professor who has researched sports and race, said "the collegiate black athlete is viable leverage to consider when seeking socio-political change." That said, politicians need to show a vested interest in these athletes' futures beyond the field of play as well, Hawkins wrote in an e-mail. 

"I do not think that these lawmakers should merely try to employ the black athletic presence and power without getting involved in their plight at this predominantly white institution; in this case, the University of South Carolina," wrote Hawkins, an associate professor of kinesiology. "If black lawmakers are only developing this relationship with black athletes for their political agenda, they are no different from the institutions that use them for economic gain." 

The effectiveness of calls for boycotts is also in question. The protests at Auburn died off after a few weeks without the reinstatement of Stacy Danley and Eugene Harris, and both officials later landed jobs at historically black colleges. Danley is now athletic director at Tuskegee University and Harris is head men's basketball coach at Florida A&M University.

 It should be noted that the 2011 version of the University of Georgia (UGA) football program is the Blackest incarnation ever, starting just two white players out of 22 positions. Forty years ago, the UGA program was still all-white. 

Oklahoma and UGA have football teams that really represent the schools!

When UGA won its lone national title in 1980, the team started a large percentage of white players though it did have Hershel Walker at running back. We explore Walker's career in great detail soon enough, but of his accomplishments was said this:

After being recruited by more than 100 colleges, Walker attended the University of Georgia, where his legend went national. In 1980 Walker set the NCAA freshman rushing record with 1,616 yards, leading the Bulldogs to an undefeated season and a national championship. "Herschel Walker!" wrote Jim Minter, editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Thank God that magnificent young man is not cutting plywood in Johnson County. Thank God for [U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice] Earl Warren."

Earl Warren desegregated the schools in Brown v. Board of Education back in 1954. UGA had winning teams, very successful teams, with only white players up until 1971 ( a year they went 11-1). Though Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, Augusta, and counties all around Metro Atlanta are now incredibly unsafe to raise families in (because of high rates of Black crime and poor schools filled with academically inept Black students) forcing white people - well, white developers - to build new cities out of the ground, white alumni of UGA have no problem cheering on the top Black recruits that call these Black Undertow cities home. 

Funny: UGA and other SEC schools have no problem recruiting Black athletes (who will require "special admission" status) to represent their overwhelmingly white student bodies on the football field.

The UGA football program (and the entire SEC) has abandoned its history and coaches have decided the only way to win is by recruiting Black athletes. A 6-7 record last year with a team few UGA alumni or students would recognize forty years ago seems to run counter to those hopes.

Then again, not one SEC team boasts a lineup that is anywhere near representative of their alumni or current student body. It's a game of our "special admission" Black students are better than your "special admission" Black students.

It's embarrassing. You have to wonder what foreign students from Asia studying engineering, nuclear physics and other hard science disciplines are thinking as they go to pore over their books and homework at the library on Saturday, while tens of thousands of drunken whites tailgate and imbibe with malicious zeal before going to watch "special admission" Black students compete for their university.

Do you need "special admission" Black athletes to succeed? Glancing at the top 25 from 2007-2008 and the racial breakdown of the teams, you would think so. But you would also need to see the breakdown for EVERY team before you could come to that conclusion. How many programs have majority Black teams that also went 4-8, 3-9, 2-10, or 1-11?

Teams like Virginia Tech, Oregon, UGA, and Oklahoma should be ashamed of themselves for deeming it necessary to recruit borderline retards to compete for their respective universities.

In former Auburn University head football coach (and former UGA football player) Pat Dye's book In the Arena is this key paragraph:

Another thing I found, I already knew: we live in an age, and it will probably last forever, where the black kids in this region make the difference in football. If there are 10 college prospects in Alabama, seven are gonna be black. (p. 135)

But why is this? Other programs are winning with white athletes. Boise State will bring 16 white starters to the Georgia Dome this Saturday to play the incredibly white University of Georgia and the primarily Black football team that represents them on the field.

Brigham Young, a school with less than 10 Black football players (and only.02 Black male student body) will bring 14-17 white starters to Oxford on Saturday to play a University of Mississippi that has given up its traditions (all related to the Old South) in the hopes of transforming into a Black powerhouse squad.

Last year's 4-8 record with 20 Black starters was a great indicator of how well that is going.

What's funny is that a white guy like Pat Dye would never get the chance to play for an SEC school (he played center for UGA back in the 1950s) unless he tried to walk-on or was a kicker or placekicker. How would have become a coach without that playing time and pedigree of a college athlete?

It's fitting that book In the Arena was written by Pat Dye to answer many of the questions surrounding the Auburn football program after Black safety Eric Ramsey accused the coaches of racism toward Black athletes. The Ramsey situation would be featured on 60 minutes and Auburn would ultimately be penalized by the NCAA.

How many white athletes from the suburbs of Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Charlotte, and other southern cities never get the same looks that Black athletes get? The same Black athletes that require "special admission" status just to get into schools like UGA, to represent a student body that has no desire to live anywhere near Black people upon graduation.

SEC schools like UGA, the University of Florida and the University of Tennessee have rosters in 2011 that look strikingly similar to the rosters of 1971, but with one noticeable change: all-white teams then are now near all-Black teams now.

This quote from Jeff Prugh's The Hershel Walker Story sums up the situation for white players (like Jacob Hester, the former running back at LSU) at SEC schools now:

"I think you see a gradual feeling of being part of the community now that blacks didn't feel ten years ago," said [UGA head coach Vince Dooley, in 1981], "because sports have been the greatest thing that has helped integration in some small towns. It's given both sides something to rally to, where both blacks and whites are on the same team. I think you are getting some blacks now who always wanted to play at UGA."

To accommodate Black athletes (Bobby Bowden of FSU admitted this in his book here) southern schools went "full negro" in an all-out bid to distance themselves from their all-white pasts and embrace an all-Black future. The best white athletes in the south now play baseball, leaving football to "special admission" Black students that Steve Spurrier defends.

The best way to illustrate the "full negro" move is the 2007 UGA-Auburn football game, where the Black players (72 percent of the team, though only two percent of the student body and perhaps .0002 of the alumni base) convinced head coach Mark Richt to play the vile rap song "Superman" by Soulja Boy on the PA system at Sanford Stadium.

By going "full negro" at UGA, the PWI has embraced the lowest-common denominator culture from the Black community, and watching 82,000 white people dance like Black thugs (to an incredibly vile song that only Black people - cut from the same cloth of 2 Live Crew - could create) shows that white people will stoop at nothing to accommodate their "special admission" Black football represenatives.

Do you see now why college football is so important to write about? The worst behavior of Black people is tolerated and discipline -like that attempted by University of Wyoming coach Lloyd Eaton in 1969 toward the Black 14 - aimed at curtailing the worst character faults of Black athletes is impossible, lest that coach and school be accused of racism.

So SEC fans: have fun cheering for your "special admission" Black athletes come the 2011 season, especially when an overwhelmingly Black UGA team faces a refreshingly white (and highly ranked) Boise State team.

Or when "white boys" from BYU invade Oxford to play a university that has castrated itself in hopes of landing Black athletes, the University of Mississippi.

It should be obvious, after looking at these graphs, that the majority of Black athletes on the football fields of SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12, Big 12, ACC, and Big East schools have no business attending the universities and colleges they represent.

Especially at UGA:That the majority of these Black athlete-students are "clustered" in something called a Housing major (where students learn how to fill out applications for apartments) embarrasses no one at UGA.  Thank God for Earl Warren, right? It should be noted that

Atlanta and every city and county with a majority Black population might be incredibly unsafe and potentially life threatening to a white person (or any race who travels into these war zones), but as long as Black athlete-students can recruited from these areas to represent UGA, Auburn, Alabama, Miami, Florida, Florida State or Tennessee on the football field, all is well.

White Football Referee Attacked by Black Coaches and Football Players at Sarasota Area Game

I've been traveling and finishing up some research to do posts on Auburn University, the University of Alabama, Boise State University, Brigham Young University, the University of Georgia, and the University of Mississippi football programs and the racial aspects of these colleges history. All will be published within the next three days. One thing I can say is that most of the college football coaches in the south (most notably disciples of former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden) have no problem ignoring the recruitment of white athletes from high schools, because they believe recruiting whites in an age where Black athletic superiority is a "given" could cause rival schools to label them racist.

Plans are set to still do a review of all members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and other select programs (Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon, etc.), because discussing race, the integration of college football, and the pandering to Black athletes - lowering academic standards as well as standards of morality to accommodate their presence at Predominately White Institutions (PWI) campuses - has larger implications for society as a whole.

We'll get back to your normal, scheduled program of bringing you Stuff Black People Don't Like (SBPDL) starting full-time next week. How about a taste of that right now, courtesy of a Sarasota brawl on a football field involving Black coaches and Black members of the Sarasota Gators football program (a YMCA program) attacking a white referee:

 The Sheriff's Office is wrapping up its investigation of the youth football brawl that was captured on videotape last weekend, and expects to announce any charges on Friday.

The investigation has centered on four suspects who took part in the melee; sheriff's Col. Steve Burns says all four of them have provided statements to law enforcement and are "cooperating."

The video shows that aggressors in the fight were mainly coaches and players from the Sarasota Gators football team.

The coach of the other team on the field Saturday, Mike Cody of the North Port Husky's, on Thursday called it a "very disgraceful display of coaching and mentoring to young men and women," the worst he has seen in 24 years of coaching.

Several Husky's coaches can be seen trying to break up the fight in the video. Cody can also be seen in the video, calling 911 on his cell phone.

"I feel like our people did the best they could do in the situation they were put in," Cody said.

The fight that quickly turned into a mob scene was apparently over a disputed call in the game among the two junior teams ages 13 and 14.

A video captured by a parent in the stands shows Gator coaches first throwing water bottles at the referees and then an unidentified parent or coach walking onto the field toward Ream.

According to a Sheriff's report, Ream says an unnamed suspect threw him to the ground.

The suspect, who said Ream was being unfair to his team, told deputies that Ream pushed him first.

Then a player in full gear, and presumably 13 or 14 years old, is seen in the video rushing through the field and tackling Ream.

 Ream has not responded to multiple calls for comment.

EARLIER

It started with a disputed call, followed by some disgruntled coaches throwing water bottles at the referees.

What happened next, captured on video and now being investigated by authorities, is shocking: more than a dozen youth football coaches and players attacking at least one referee, including a player in full gear except for his helmet flying into a referee and tackling him to the ground.

Felony charges could follow an investigation into what happened Saturday — and who did what — during the game between the age 13-14 junior teams of the Sarasota Gators and North Port Huskies played at Riverview High School.

The investigation will be easier for authorities since the fight was videotaped by someone in the stands and turned over to the Sheriff's Office.

Debbie Ismail, a "team mom" whose son Adam plays for the Huskies pee wee team, was just feet away from the melee.

Ismail said the fight started minutes before halftime over some disputed calls, and the coaches from the Gators started throwing water bottles at the referees.

"I was shocked," Ismail said. "I looked at the children to see the expressions on their faces. They were horrified."

She added: "This is not what football is about."

The fight gave Ismail an anxiety attack, and for her son Adam, it was "terrifying" to witness.

"I felt really bad for the ref that got beat up," he said.

Ismail said the referee was taken away in an ambulance.

"The video speaks for itself," Sarasota County Sheriff's Col. Steve Burns said. "It was disturbing."

"I saw adults, entrusted in a mentoring position with the youth of our community, acting and behaving in a manner that is absolutely unacceptable," Burns said.

At the game, the video shows a coach or parent confronting a referee who was walking out of the end zone.

Punches were thrown between the two men, who started grappling, until a Gator player wearing the number 6 dives in and levels the referee. The boy then celebrates his hit on the official, the video shows.

The referee gets up and scampers away, but the fight continues. The whole scene lasts just over two minutes.

 Shocking? Not really. When Black people behave, well, that is what I consider shocking behavior. This is just another example of Black people engaging in a mass-beating of a white guy.

I have several acquaintances who referee high school football in Georgia, and it is a rule that no referee crew can be all-white or all-Black. Why? For fear that an all-white or all-Black referee crew might play favorites. This was documented in the book on high school football in the state of Texas called Friday Night Lights. An all-Black inner-city high school team from Dallas demanded an all-Black refereeing crew for the championship game against the white high school from Odessa. 

Nothing shocks me anymore about Black people. Nothing. 

Judging by content of character? Let's start doing that. Judging by the actions of adult Black males coaching the Sarasota Gators YMCA football program and how they all engaged in a group beat-down of white football referee (with one Black coward coach laying in kicks like a WWE wrestler while the white referee lay prone the ground), a whole community is need of being condemned with the harshest of language. 

It's time to start judging by the content of character. These Black coaches in Sarasota (and their Black players) have none.

Video: Referee attacked at youth football game: MyFoxTAMPABAY.com