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The 2012 winner is Matt McGloin, Penn State quarterback.
McGloin edged out finalists Michigan safety Jordan Kovacs and San Jose State tackle David Quissenberry. All three players are white.
For fun, I took a peek at the ten semifinalists. The committee found two blacks and one Samoan to diversify the other seven whites.
Of course, the next step was to review the list of fifty nominees. Thanks to the internet, I learned that 38 whites, 11 blacks, and that lone Samoan were put forth for consideration as the best player to begin as a walk-on.
The selection committee consists exclusively of old white men who are caste participants. You can parse out the eight kickers and punters (all white, of course) and you are still left with about a 3-to-1 ratio of white vs. black players. This is way out of wack with the rest of the 2/3 black rosters across college football.
You can make the economic disparity argument that black kids are less likely to afford school. You can say that racial intelligence differences make it tougher for black kids to earn a general admission in the first place. You could even stretch for a case that black kids' "natural positions" of running back, wide receiver, and corner back are recruited more heavily, so there are less "natural" vacancies for them to fill.
But you can't look at a list like this in good conscience and fail to conclude that white athletes are overlooked out of high school and blacks are, in turn, overrecruited. There is an untapped reserve of white high schoolers that have the talent and potential to succeed at the highest level. Recruiters would do well to learn how to identify it.
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