Quote:I'm not missing any point. I've already highlighted more black athletes are playing these sports and less white athletes are. Neither group is more athletic than another. Blacks simply emphasize sports more than other groups. It could be simply be because we think development of these skills will result in getting out of low-income, crime ridden environments.

 

So there are no disparities between white and black players, no one group is more athletically competent than another. There simply isn't enough white players! 

 

I also said the white QBs who do play are generally not as athletic. First you need to understand there are few white players to begin with. The pool of athletically gifted white players is already small, so when I say most white QBs are unathletic I don't think I am saying anything that isn't true. There simply aren't many. Manning, Brady, Flacco, Schuab, Ryan, Rivers, etc etc these guys are some of the best passers in the league but they are not athletic. Why are they such great passers? Simply put, throughout their career they had to be. They didn't have the ability to run around, scramble etc etc. They had to focus development on becoming a fundamentally sound, traditional drop back passers. Vick is probably a great example of someone who had freak talent but just never developed into an elite passer. Why? Because he able to get by in highschool and college on sheer talent. He never developed the mental game, the ability to go through progressions, read defenses etc etc. 

 

Again for players it is a numbers game.

 

Large pool of players = greater likelihood of more talented, athletically gifted players.

Smaller pool of players = less likelihood of more talented, athletically gifted players.

Less athletically gifted players at QB = more time refining the critical aspects of the game.

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Coaching is different. Disparities are present because of lack of opportunities not because of lack of numbers. 

 

I wonder how you reconcile the fact that over 70% of all collegiate athletes are white with your statement that there aren't enough white athletes? Larger pool means more talented players, right? Even if we just take D1, whites are still over 60% of the athletes. So, if as you postulate, there are no differences in the capabilities of the races, then why do we see such a huge reversal when we move up to the professional level where over 60% of the NFL players and 80% of the NBA players are black while MLB has more than 25% Latino but only 8% black (still a full 40% minority)?

 

Further, with so very few professional roster spots and even fewer coaching and management positions (less than 20k in aggregate), why aren't we concerned by the OVER-representation of minorities in these positions? 

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