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Demographics querey

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?
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  • RhythmicSlappingDawg
    RhythmicSlappingDawg Member Posts: 1,176
    I would bet 35% of black kids in the Seattle area are lightskin.
  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,630 Founders Club
    I think so. Gordon, Molden, Qualls and Spiker being a good start. I think the key to doing this at UW will be the ability to secure and develop/motivate high end Poly kids. Pepper in straight outta the Congo African kids and every local and elite full Afro-Americans and we have a real shot. As I stated earlier on the original FS/SS thread it will also take an ELITE transcendent QB to take it all over the top. Last years team with Deshaun Watson is a legit title threat.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,237 Founders Club
    I'd wager that it can and will given time, but hard for me to be objective being the slowest of slow strategy guys.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839

    I think so. Gordon, Molden, Qualls and Spiker being a good start. I think the key to doing this at UW will be the ability to secure and develop/motivate high end Poly kids. Pepper in straight outta the Congo African kids and every local and elite full Afro-Americans and we have a real shot. As I stated earlier on the original FS/SS thread it will also take an ELITE transcendent QB to take it all over the top. Last years team with Deshaun Watson is a legit title threat.

    I agree the true African kids are a huge piece of this puzzle for us. Getting the Ngatas in 2019 and 2020 will be huge. Getting Ali Gaye into school would have been huge as well. Those types will go a long way to supplement #LightSkinU and emerging #PolyU.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,817 Founders Club
    If I am following we are talking two parent families whether both black or mixed.

    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.
  • BlastDoor
    BlastDoor Member Posts: 711
    Jeremiah Martin will be a good test, I guess. I doubt he has white in his bloodline.
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    Ty Jones seems FAST to me. Good pull by Lubick.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Swaye said:

    Ty Jones seems FAST to me. Good pull by Bush.

    crisped
  • RhythmicSlappingDawg
    RhythmicSlappingDawg Member Posts: 1,176
    Ahh my homeland #FucktheDutch. @YellowSnow, can I get a trigger warning next time you bring up the fuckers who persecuted my peoples?
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,237 Founders Club

    Ahh my homeland #FucktheDutch. @YellowSnow, can I get a trigger warning next time you bring up the fuckers who persecuted my peoples?

    I am confused as fuck - BTP is of Bantu ethnicity?
  • RhythmicSlappingDawg
    RhythmicSlappingDawg Member Posts: 1,176

    Ahh my homeland #FucktheDutch. @YellowSnow, can I get a trigger warning next time you bring up the fuckers who persecuted my peoples?

    I am confused as fuck - BTP is of Bantu ethnicity?
    Engrrrish and some Bantu. I got Euro shit on my other side. #TeamLightskin.
  • RhythmicSlappingDawg
    RhythmicSlappingDawg Member Posts: 1,176
    dnc said:

    Ahh my homeland #FucktheDutch. @YellowSnow, can I get a trigger warning next time you bring up the fuckers who persecuted my peoples?

    I am confused as fuck - BTP is of Bantu ethnicity?
    Engrrrish and some Bantu. I got Euro shit on my other side. #TeamLightskin.
    BTP changes ethnicities faster than Spooge changes handles
    El oh El. All the other shit is a joke.
  • RhythmicSlappingDawg
    RhythmicSlappingDawg Member Posts: 1,176
    edited January 2018

    Ahh my homeland #FucktheDutch. @YellowSnow, can I get a trigger warning next time you bring up the fuckers who persecuted my peoples?

    I am confused as fuck - BTP is of Bantu ethnicity?
    Engrrrish and some Bantu. I got Euro shit on my other side. #TeamLightskin.
    Well, shit let's fucking cue up Graceland and change your handle to something TUFF like @ZuluDawg.


    I'm of Xhosa ancestry #TeamLighskin. They are pieces of shit athletically compared most African tribes. Combine that with my Central/Eastern Euro heritage I'm a DDY -10.
  • LesGrossman
    LesGrossman Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,500 Founders Club
    So you're saying 2038 will be special?
  • AEB
    AEB Member Posts: 2,994

    The black demographic is a disappearing demographic on the west coast. Asians and hispanics, not the biggest football populations, far outnumber The Blacks. There are less than 3 million black people on the west coast (CA, WA, OR). There is virtually the same, if not more, The Blacks, in Georgia alone. Let that sink in. I've actually wanted to punch the numbers for the last year or so and address this but didn't want to come off as too racist. ;-) I recognized this about a year ago that the number of, or amount of black kids UW has a shot at is very small. God bless the west coast poly population for making up some of the slack.

    I’d extend this thought to the whole of the US. Black demographic strength is decreasing generally as (primarily) the Latino population both grows and displaces then economically. This is a huge problem in my opinion as the US hasn’t properly addressed the socioeconomic issues impacting blacks and frankly the interest to do so by recent immigrants will diminish (my opinion) that possibility. Charlotte, NC - 20 years ago 60/40 white/black - Latinos are now 15-20% largely displacing blacks. SEC will still benefit disproportionately, but who knows the consequences?