surfsider said:
None of the schools purportedly showing interest in him will give him a shot at rb. Stand-out white rbs need to promote themselves to schools where they might at least have a fighting chance. What happens is that players like Attaway are scooped up by the FSU's and such and then put through the conversion process and become born-again safetys, tightends and fullbacks.
Not that there are any places hospitable to white RBs but the white, wannabe a Div. 1 RB, high schoolers need to get themselves to Colorado State not Florida State. You'd think that they would be able to see what they are up against but the euphoria of being recruited by a big program and the hubris of youth blind them to reality.
Very well said. These guys are so young and, most likely, very naive. It's too bad they don't have people in their lives who can steer them in the right direction. People who are worldly and cynical and who know how the system works. It must feel great (at first anyway) to go to some big, "hallowed" program, especially one close to home that they grew up idolizing, but I'm sure that fades once they find themselves camped out on the sidelines for most of their careers.
In a perfect world these white players would flat out reject teams that want to convert them to fullback, no matter how much they love that school, and simply swamp the more hospitable DI schools. They need to
study all these teams, find the ones that play white players at their positions, and reject the ones that don't. The teams that don't play white players at certain positions should be punished. What better way to punish them? I can't think of any.
But how many 18 year old young men have that kind of foresight, cynicism, and, of course, awareness of the racial dynamics swirling all around them? Or someone in their lives with that insight?
The Caste System in football won't end until the most prominent programs start giving out scholarships to white players at the "taboo positions," but you gotta start somewhere. It's not going to happen for them in those programs... yet.
Edited by: JD074