Some very relevant info from Jack Lambert and myself regarding white starters in some conferences.
As far as anti-white discrimination in college football goes, its the individual schools that make up the conferences that are the
biggest part of the problem. The coaches, recruiters, and athletic
directors at each school is where change is most needed. This is
different than the drunk white fans, but part of the same problem.
Because of the extreme discrimination of each school's personnel in the
SEC, the SEC becomes a discriminatory league. Considering this, every
conference in the country looks discriminatory against whites. There
are schools in each conference that are less discriminatory than other
conference members. Schools like BYU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern,
Stanford, Central Michigan, Cincinnati, and Boise State often stand out
from other conference members by playing more whites than the rest, but
often the conferences are still far from being as white as they should
be.
Let's take the MWC for the first example. As a conference with 9
members, they have 4 teams that are majority white (BYU-17, Air
Force-15, Colorado State-16, and Wyoming-16) and 1 team that may start
10 whites (Texas Christian), and the rest should all start 8 whites
(New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV, and Utah).
This is
probably the whitest conference by starters in the nation in the
whitest conference area in the nation, but it still has teams that
should be whiter than they are. The SEC is probably the blackest
conference in the nation in the blackest conference area in the nation,
and it has a majority of teams with less than 6 white starters. Vandy
is the whitest team with 12, then comes Kentucky with 9, Alabama-8,
Arkansas-7, Tennessee with 6, LSU, Georgia, and South Carolina with 5,
Ole Miss and Mississippi State with 4, and Auburn and Florida with 3.
The
differences are pretty stark, 70 white starters out of a possible 264
(26.5%) in the SEC versus 106 white starters out of a possible 198
(53.5%) in the MWC.
Here
are two other major conferences to compare with the Mountain West and
Southeastern Conferences. First, the Big 12.
Colorado - 12/22
Iowa St. - 7/22
Kansas St. - 12/22
Kansas 11/22
Missouri 9/22
Nebraska 13/22
Baylor 9/22
Oklahoma 7/22
Oklahoma St. 5/22
Texas 9/22
Texas A&M 10/22
Texas Tech 8/22
112/264 42.4% of starters are white. The loser of the Big 12 is
Oklahoma State with 5 white starters. After that, the next lowest teams
start 7.
Here is the Big 10
Illinois 4/22
Iowa 12/22
Indiana 9/22
Michigan 7/22
Michigan State 11/22
Minnesota 11/22
Northwestern 15/22
Ohio State 11/22
Penn State 8/22
Purdue 11/22
Wisconsin 13/22
112/242 46.2% of the Big 10's starters are white. Not counting SEC
duplicate Illinois, the lowest number of white starters would be
Michigan's 7. This should be over half as well. The Big 10 has a majority of teams starting
11 whites or better, but the total is dragged down by the U of I's 4
white starters.