Fandom is the most difficult vice to defeat.
Even when I first started posting here, I would still root for my traditional team. The timing was fortunate for my awakening, though. There were a series of PR disasters at the school that broke the hold of fan loyalty long enough for me to see that I was guilty of everything that I would complain about here on these forums.
Now I'm a nomad fan. I have no team. I love the game of football, its strategy and tactics, its competitive intensity. But I care very little for the sport of football. It's that aspect - the organization and formalization - which has enabled the oppression of white athletes, starting at the toddler level.
I get just as much enjoyment out of watching game film breakdowns on offensive strategies as I do from watching most college football games. Maybe if I had someone to root for, someone I can identify with, then I'd have reason to be a regular fan. But that's just not happening on the college level these days. And one brief burst of light in the dark isn't enough to keep me coming back to the permanent midnight of college football.
In other words, I have no reason to watch or care about Stanford football next season (just as a single example). Is it Harbaugh's fault that Bourbon changed his commitment? No. But it's Harbaugh's fault that he recruited nothing but negroes for his other RBs. The same story is true at every other school in the country.
Until I see long term trends (a string of at least three white starting tailbacks in a row), then all schools are guilty, and none of them deserve praise or pardon.
I'm ashamed of that Recruiting Analysis thread I started two years ago. Not the information itself. That part is vital. I'm embarrassed by the comments I made. I stupidly praised Ferentz and Roberts (AR State) for their recruiting efforts. Now I understand that one decent signing class is meaningless. All coaches are traitors and scoundrels. And they can't be changed. The only thing that coaches understand is money pressure. Either pressure from their ADs for not putting butts in the seats, or pressure from the big boosters who throw the weight of their money around. The only way the caste system can ever change is by convincing one of those two groups that we're right.
It's a monumental task, and it will never be accomplished by playing nice. Mean and vicious ridicule, scorn and shame... Those are the only effective weapons at our disposal. Lauding the efforts of white players is pointless. It falls on deaf ears and blind eyes. Even if you can point out a "day and night" example (like a white RB with better EVERYTHING, including competition, than a black RB who ultimately was the one who got the scholarship), they still won't accept that a white kid can excel in their "non-racially approved" position. I've tried it. The end result is either a dead thread after they ignore your post completely, or the conversation instantly becomes how much of a racist you are, with requests to the mods to ban you.
But, if CasteFootball can "fix" me, then it can help other fans. We just have to make sure to keep new visitors coming in. And the best way to do that is to keep making threads about the white athletes, especially the high school kids. When some doofus DWF in a small town Googles the name of his neighbor's son, who happens to be the star RB on his high school football team, we want the first page to include a link here. That's usually not a hard thing, since those players are typically ignored by the media. For example, my original thread on Hunter Furr shows up on the first page of Google links. That drives a lot of traffic here. Threads for other players also show up on the first page of links. That's how I found CF in the first place. I did a Google Search for Derek Lawson. After visiting, I wasn't sure I wanted to come back. The language set off alarms. I was afraid to have such a cookie in my cache. But I eventually came back, when I realized that it was all false conditioning. Now I think differently about most things in life. It's just a hard thing to put the first crack in that shield.
