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Is there reverse racism in football recruiting?
Obviously in this world, no matter what color your skin is, you will receive racism in your lifetime. There just is no doubt that you can live an entire lifetime and not in any way not. The way that it normally works is that the people in the minority are the ones that are discriminated against. But could there be reverse racism during the recruiting process?
Recently when speaking with a parent that I trust, we talked about his son. This athlete is currently a junior and has two Division I football scholarship offers. With it being so early in the recruiting process, it is pretty obvious that this player has some serious skills on the football field. But with him being a white running back, will it hurt his recruiting in the long run?
That is a tough question to answer. This player is focused on being one of the best running backs in the country. He has set high goals for himself and doesn’t want to go to college as an athlete, a wide receiver, or even a defensive back. He has worked hard and runs a 4.4 40-yard dash despite few expecting that type of speed out of a white running back.
So when it comes down to websites like Rivals.com and others to rank him, he really may end up being hurt because of his skin color. If that is the case, he really may be effected by reverse racism. It is something that you may not see often in the game of recruiting but does happen to white defense backs and possibly black quarterbacks. There are other positions as well but these are probably the main three that come up.
For those that have had a chance to see Cy-Fair all purpose back Sam McGuffie, his highlight tape says it all. Go to youtube.com and type in his name. What you will see may be one of the most impressive highlight videos from a white running back in recent memory. But despite running a 4.32 40-yard dash and being able to bench press 355 pounds, he has slipped in the rankings by a number of websites. If he were black, would he not be one of the elite running backs in the country?
So going back to the original story, if another outstanding white running back is making his way through the ranks, reverse racism may occur. College coaches may want to recruit him as an athlete and put him at wide receiver or safety at the college level. Recruiting experts may rank him lower just because of his skin color.
The parent discussed earlier said to me that he was told if his son was black, he would be rated among the top three running backs in the country. But because he is white, that may not end up being the case. This does happen on occasion at a variety of positions that I already mentioned and it is unfortunate.
I feel that college coaches and those recruiting experts around should rank players based on their ability. It shouldn’t matter if their skin color is white, black, purple, brown, or blue.
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This is happening well below the high school level too. I see it in youth football daily. Teams that are coached by black coaches show favoritism to black players and the white kids are sent to the bench or to the O-Line and not given any sort of coaching at the skill positions. Its assumed that the black kids will automatically be better.
Its also reverse profiling – to assume someone is better because they’re black is as wrong as assuming they’re worse because of it. I think it must be difficult for black kids who are not at all athletic but still enjoy participating in a sport. Even though some kids are clearly being favored for being black, its racist to them to somehow believe, even among themselves, that there is something different about their make-up that makes them better in physical things.
Great article! I have a great anecdote about this kind of scenario. A good friend of mine works in the recruiting world as I do, and several years ago he was sending out a running back’s profile to college coaches. Well, the organization he worked for just happened to put the WRONG picture on the profile (this was before highlight videos on the web), and it was a young man with OUTSTANDING grades! The profile initially went out with a picture of an African-American student-athlete, and he was FLOODED with responses from college coaches. Once they realized the mistake, the company RE-SENT out the profile with the correct picture of a caucasian young man, and he received almost ZERO responses from college coaches. It is an unfortunate reality of the college recruiting process, and I agree with the blogger that it should be BASED SOLELY on talent…if only the world really worked this way. We would live in a much better place.
The first thing that we must recognize is that “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REVERSE RACISM”. Racism is racism. No particular race invented or holds the patent on this horrible bigotry.
I just had to get that off my chest. I HATE when people use the term REVERSE RACISM as if it was created by white people and other races just HAPPENED to stumble across it.
Jacob Hester was ranked a two star prospect out of high school and had an amazing career at LSU. I notice that you use his picture in many of your articles. The color of skin should be no determination when it comes to gauging the athletic ability of an athlete. Now he’s with the Chargers and doing well.
I found myself guilty of this at the beginning of this football season. This sounds like a dad statement but my son is one of the best athletes on his team. He’s the fastest, has the strongest arm, he’s quick, etc.
He wants to play QB and actually is the best at the position (he’s the back up). The coaches son is playing QB and my son is the Half Back. I discussed this with the coach and told him that I understood that he wanted his son to play QB (and it’s his call as the coach) but there is no future in college football for a white running back and he is wasting his time and talent by positioning him at Half Back.
After two games he has done well. 4 touchdowns and a couple of two point conversions but it is frustrating knowing he should be under center and isn’t.
This article and the comments are all well and good, but how do we go about CORRECTING the problem??? Whether it’s a black kid being overlooked at QB or a white kid being overlooked at RB, DB, WR it is WRONG. One of the main problems that I see is that the general public and football fans in general are oblivious to it. How are the recruiters, recruiting sites, institutions to be called out on this?
It is nearly impossible to call the experts out due to the rankings being an opinion.