Jackson hits hard again in a web-only <\/p>\n March Madness ought to be canceled with the scandal that is in the computer Last year, 13 men’s schools had a 0% graduation rate for black men. Of the 65 teams in the men’s tournament, 49 published graduation statistics. \n The 37 schools that did not publish 2003 black graduation rates had a The Knight Commission on college sports proposed that schools that You get the idea. This is a scam completely against the spirit Web-only column<\/a><\/p>\n Print followup article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe columnist and indefatigable crusader against the sham that is "amateur" collegiate sports in this country, especially football and basketball. The Dowbrigade has also written about the cruel dream of teen transcendence into professional sports, an American … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bbball.jpg\")
Derrick
\n Z. Jackson<\/a>, Boston Globe columnist and indefatigable
\n crusader against the sham that is "amateur" collegiate sports in this
\n country, especially football and basketball. The Dowbrigade has
\n also written about the cruel dream of teen transcendence into professional
\n sports<\/a>, an American version of Ossama’s 47 virgins waiting in paradise,
\n which has shunted an entire generation of American minority youth onto
\n a dead-end sidetrack of asphalt and hardwood.<\/p>\n
\n column <\/a>posted to the Globe
\n web site yesterday, and in a follow-up
\n article<\/a> published in the print
\n edition today:<\/p>\n\n
\n banks of the NCAA’s 2003 Graduation Rates Report. The report covers whether
\n scholarship athletes who entered school in the falls of 1993, 1994, 1995,
\n or 1996 graduated within six years. The report is the best long-term
\n way to see whether a university is providing an education to its athletes
\n or pimping them in an era where CBS is paying the NCAA $6 billion over
\n 11 years to televise men’s games and where an additional $3.5 billion
\n will be wagered illegally on this year’s tournament alone, according
\n to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n
\n The average black male graduation rate for the 65-team field was 35
\n percent.
\n With the liberation provided by the new privacy rules, only one university
\n in this year’s field published a black male rate under 38 percent.
\n That was Eastern Washington, where the rate was zero.<\/p>\n
\n Of those 49 schools, the graduation average was 49.7 percent, higher
\n than the overall NCAA average of 42 percent.<\/p>\n
\n 2002 black average of 19.7 percent.<\/p>\n
\n do not graduate 50 percent of their players should be banned from tournaments
\n and bowl games. On that basis, you would wipe out more than half of
\n the
\n NCAA men’s tournament field.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n of sports and the avowed principles of equality this country was
\n founded on. What happens to all of those talented players who spend most
\n of their youth honing their skills, get used for a few years by some
\n major college program, and then get dumped back on the street with broken
\n bodies without a whiff or a hope of a professional career and without
\n so much as a diploma or any marketable skills? It is starting to make
\n sense now to see who sponsors all of the High School coronations and
\n All-American lists – McDonalds is recruiting its next generation of highly
\n skilled counter help.<\/p>\n