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Given DDY's groundbreaking Fast Strategy/Slow Strategy UW recruiting application, and his poont that we seem to do much better with kids with one black parent than those with two black parents, the obvious question arises - what are the percentages of black kids in the western US (UW recruiting footprint) in those two categories?
Where I live there are a TON more true black kids than mixed kids. If you were competing in the SEC with a strategy that appealed moreso to mixed kids than black kids you'd fail royally. However, my impression from my time in the NW (and this may have just been the part of town I lived in, shoutout to @DelridgeDoog) is that there were a lot more mixed kids. Obviously this makes sense socially - mixing of races is a lot more accepted in the west than the south. But is it common enough out there that you can actually be #LightSkinU and compete?
I imagine numbers on this type of thing are hard to come by since we?ve mostly just considered a kid with one drop of African blood to be black for so long that there may not be good numbers on how many of those kids have a cracker parent, but it would be very chinteresting to see what that pool actually looks like in the states UW primarily recruits.
TL;DR - Pete's not changing his recruiting philosophy anytime soon, so the question is can this one actually succeed at higher levels?
Where I live there are a TON more true black kids than mixed kids. If you were competing in the SEC with a strategy that appealed moreso to mixed kids than black kids you'd fail royally. However, my impression from my time in the NW (and this may have just been the part of town I lived in, shoutout to @DelridgeDoog) is that there were a lot more mixed kids. Obviously this makes sense socially - mixing of races is a lot more accepted in the west than the south. But is it common enough out there that you can actually be #LightSkinU and compete?
I imagine numbers on this type of thing are hard to come by since we?ve mostly just considered a kid with one drop of African blood to be black for so long that there may not be good numbers on how many of those kids have a cracker parent, but it would be very chinteresting to see what that pool actually looks like in the states UW primarily recruits.
TL;DR - Pete's not changing his recruiting philosophy anytime soon, so the question is can this one actually succeed at higher levels?
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Where does the single parent family come in? Who do we have that relates to Mom in a single parent situation?
Bobby Bowden could charm them regardless of race.
What we think of as a 'RACE' is a combination between a phenotype (physical appearance) and cultural context. For instance, it would be really weird to tell two Nigerians that Igbos are Yorubas are 'the same'. They are 'different'. And it's mostly about cultural context.
The other thing - to not get overly eugenic here - what we think of as 'black people' in the US are largely WEST AFRICANS. You don't see a bunch of fucking Kenyans and shit disproportionately tearing up major athletic events. However West Africans (which are what America has the most of - unfortunately through slavery) tend to tear shit up.
No one fully knows why.
So, for us - and for Stanford - getting West African kids is a big deal. Stanford has made a living off West African dudes. Owusu is one of the most common names in Ghana for instance.
West Africans in this country are generally (this is complicated like anything else, but IN GENERAL) like any other immigrant group in that they prize education as a means to success and is usually one of the primary reasons to have emigrated in the first place. Hence why I can't easily pronounce half the last names on Stanford's roster at any one time.
If you ever want to check where a name is from, I suggest using this database: http://forebears.io/surnames
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