Black athletes don't play baseball because they're smart. They know how to follow the money--the scholarship money. With 85 scholarships for the 22 football players needed to play football, 12 scholarships for the 5 players needed to play basketball and 11.7 scholarships for the 9 players needed to play baseball, the NCAA has turned baseball into a rich kids' sport. Though some try to attribute this to revenue, many baseball programs break even and could swing more scholarships. The real reason for 11.7 scholarships is Title 9. If there are more scholarships for baseball there must be more scholarships for women's sports that are complete revenue losers.
So what it really comes to is that the NCAA discourages good black athletes from playing baseball, so that white girls get scholarships to row and play field hockey. And black kids make smart choices in picking the sports where they get shown the money by colleges--and end up cut out of the big pro money paid baseball players coming out of college.
Chattanooga: Black youths turning more to other sports
Black athletes don't play baseball because they're smart. They know how to follow the money--the scholarship money. With 85 scholarships for the 22 football players needed to play football, 12 scholarships for the 5 players needed to play basketball and 11.7 scholarships for the 9 players needed to play baseball, the NCAA has turned baseball into a rich kids' sport. Though some try to attribute this to revenue, many baseball programs break even and could swing more scholarships. The real reason for 11.7 scholarships is Title 9. If there are more scholarships for baseball there must be more scholarships for women's sports that are complete revenue losers.
So what it really comes to is that the NCAA discourages good black athletes from playing baseball, so that white girls get scholarships to row and play field hockey. And black kids make smart choices in picking the sports where they get shown the money by colleges--and end up cut out of the big pro money paid baseball players coming out of college.