Three out of 21 of our signees this year have two black parents. Two of them signed with Jimmy Lake.
Discuss.
Which of Newton and Curne is mixed? I would have guessed Irvin was mixed before either or them.
Irregardless, I don't think it's significant. We got eight kids with at least one black parent (and fuck if ZTP doesn't look like he has one). That's the more pertinent number here IMO. None of those kids are particularly light skinned either except Kyler. None of these kids are Elijah Molden or even Byron Murphy. Nobody's staying with Culp on a recruiting visit and thinking "this kid's mixed". He's visually black which in America is what matters.
I know I asked this before but I'd love if anyone has access to any percentages on the west coast of how many black kids are actually mixed. In my anecdotal experience it's much higher out west than in the south or Big 12 country. My guess is that a significant percentage of west coast black kid are actually mixed.
Last year we signed 10 black kids by Amerikkka's standard. The year before we signed 12. 2015 we signed 10.
So of the four classes that Pete had a full year to recruit we've signed 40 black kids.
We're not trying to be the only school who wins without blacks.
If next year we sign less than 8 then maybe you can argue for a trend, but we already have Davis and look strong for Criddell and Eifler, among others.
We know Lake can recruit black kids, we know PaoPao can recruit BTE's, we know Bonerpopper can recruit black kids, we know Lubick can recruit black kids, we know Bush can recruit black kids. Obviously Harris should do well in this area too, and early returns are good on Huff. Maybe this isn't Malloe's strength but if he can keep pulling this caliber of Poly's it won't matter.
We really just need to fix the Gregory/K situation at LB recruiting. Otherwise, I don't think there's much to worry about here.