OT - Will Ole Miss Disturbance Affect Football Recruiting?
I wonder how this is affecting choices of Derrick Green, others...
November 9th, 2012 at 8:42 AM ^
There's an entire league of racist universities but since they aren't all white it's ok. And no, I'm not kidding...
November 9th, 2012 at 3:49 PM ^
I am having a hard time imagining what kind of universities bear comparison with the events being discussed in the OP.
I suppose there is a remote chance that you are talking about HBCUs; not that their founding principles or ongoing mission warrant that kind of ridiculous comparison, but it's all I can come up with.
If that's the case, you should know that they admit students from all racial & ethnic groups.
November 9th, 2012 at 9:33 AM ^
I don't think Bob Jones U would be willing to concede the title, but I'd pay good money to see both underground campus chapters of KKK fight to the death for the honor.
November 8th, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
November 9th, 2012 at 1:56 AM ^
Now that is surely a statement of a well reasoned and intelligent and tolerant person who loves humankind!
/S
November 9th, 2012 at 1:24 PM ^
November 8th, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
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November 8th, 2012 at 9:26 PM ^
In the movie Road Trip didn't they stop at Ole Miss, at the all black Frat house? That was funny as hell.
November 8th, 2012 at 9:38 PM ^
Mississippi racist? Who wouldve thunk?
November 8th, 2012 at 9:57 PM ^
November 8th, 2012 at 10:21 PM ^
They have a black student population below the national average? I can't imagine that's true. I would be very surprised if they didn't have a significantly larger proportion of black students than we do.
November 9th, 2012 at 12:29 AM ^
November 9th, 2012 at 3:04 PM ^
I don't know that much about Ole Miss's admissions policies, but given that it is the flagship school of the state with the highest proportion of African Americans in the country (37%), it's likely to have a pretty substantial black student body. Incidentally, African Americans are underrepresented at pretty much all prestigious schools. That's not something exclusive to the Deep South. The state of Michigan is 14% black, but U-M is only around 6-7%. (Even before affirmative action was struck down, the percentage never reached double figures.)
November 9th, 2012 at 3:23 PM ^
White and black are all I'm recording, since none of the others seem likely to factor in here:
School | White % | Black % |
MSU | 76 | 20.5 |
So Miss | 66.7 | 28.1 |
Ole Miss | 82.9 | 13.2 |
Jackson St | 2.2 | 95.9 |
Delta St | 58.7 | 38.6 |
I have no desire to go any further in this (I think you hit on a good point with Michigan/state at-large), but those are the numbers.
November 9th, 2012 at 12:43 PM ^
I have lived in Michigan, Ohio, and Mississippi. I attended public schools in all 3 states, and northeast Ohio was the most racist area I lived in. When I lived in Mississippi, I attended a racial integrated middle school. When I lived in Michigan and Ohio, I attended public schools that had almost no minorities in terms of blacks or hispanics or Jews or asians or whatever.
You are living in the far past if you think that Mississippi is the most racial backward state. I suggest you try and learn something before voicing your own prejudices in a public forum.
November 9th, 2012 at 8:35 PM ^
November 8th, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
November 9th, 2012 at 8:57 AM ^
and I would assume that everyone knows Mississippi as a state isn't the most friendly to other races, so this likely changes nothing.
November 9th, 2012 at 9:55 AM ^
All I know is that when we played them in the 1991 Gator Bowl, their band's halftime show was actually "Six Variations on Dixie" or something like that. They literally just spent the entire halftime playing Dixie. Add to that their fans having more confederate flags than you would see at a 'Dukes of Hazard' convention and I can't imagine how some kids decide to go play there. Obviously that was 20 years ago so maybe things have changed. Maybe.
November 9th, 2012 at 2:42 PM ^
See my update post above, regarding "Variations on Dixie," by American composer Frank Proto.
November 9th, 2012 at 3:54 PM ^
I would venture a guess that a kid who has grown up in the south isn't going to find a confederate flag quite as remarkable as we yankees do.
I'm not saying it's not offensive, but remember that this kid sees the same flag sold on bumper stickers & keychains every time he goes into a convenience store to buy a Slurpee. So you can see why he might not be so riled up to see them hanging out a dorm window or whatever.
November 9th, 2012 at 10:09 AM ^
Anywhere they waive the confederate flag around and are proud of what it stands for is someplace i would never play...and I am white, with southern heritage
November 9th, 2012 at 11:16 AM ^
you can take Mississippi out of the 1950's, but you can't take the 1950's out of Mississippi.
Or more accurately, maybe I should say 1962 after viewing that 30-for-30 documentary last week.
November 9th, 2012 at 11:47 AM ^
4.5% to about 16%. Our holier than thou statements chastizing an entire university because of a group on campus acting like jackasses are a little off base. The idea that an athlete is going to feel persecuted there is absurd, just as it was absurd to think that the JoePa protests at PSU were going to hurt recruiting "because they support a guy who allowed Sandusky on the team."
I don't think any recruit is going to be turned off. They probably just won't be joining whatever group staged the protest.
November 9th, 2012 at 12:30 PM ^
As with any issue dealing with white people and race, the media makes a huge deal out of nothing.
Anti-Obama sentiment boiled over into a few racial slurs and a couple lawn signs being burnt.
They call it a "riot" in the media, yet there was no damage, no injuries, nothing.
All it was was frustration boiling over.