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New Fish
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?