OT: espn first take Wisconsin Badgers doesn't hide from white guys reputation

[UConnSwag11]

 

[UConnSwag11]

Usa today article. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...rs-bo-ryan-race-white-black-players/70838416/

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

This should end well.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

I shocked they didn't mention Nolan

 

[upstater]

This reminds me of conversations about the 80s Celtics. Maybe well deserved because of the Boston sports lily-white sports scene, and the Red Sox, and constant problems between players and the law, but Red Auerbach was the first to have an all black starting lineup.

Kind of hard to argue against having Bird, McHale, Ainge and Walton play for you. The first 3 were stolen in trades/drafts. But were Sichting, Kite and Wedman really necessary? Heh.

 

[storrsroars]

On Pittsburgh sports radio this morning they announced a drinking game for Wisky/UK. You have to drink every time one of these five code words for "team of white guys" is used by the announcers:
- Disciplined
- Team-oriented
- Gritty
- System player
- Scrappy

 

[MilliniumPrince]

On Pittsburgh sports radio this morning they announced a drinking game for Wisky/UK. You have to drink every time one of these five code words for "team of white guys" is used by the announcers:
- Disciplined
- Team-oriented
- Gritty
- System player
- Scrappy

They might be wise to remove Disciplined and Gritty from the list or people will die. Either word alone would cause wide spread drunken blackouts.

 

[Rocktheworld]

On Pittsburgh sports radio this morning they announced a drinking game for Wisky/UK. You have to drink every time one of these five code words for "team of white guys" is used by the announcers:
- Disciplined
- Team-oriented
- Gritty
- System player
- Scrappy

And a car bomb for "pluck"

 

[CallMeBruce]

And a car bomb for "pluck"

Or "blue-collar."

 

[Rocktheworld]

Or "blue-collar."

Or a focus on fundamentals

 

[BarkingDog]

On Pittsburgh sports radio this morning they announced a drinking game for Wisky/UK. You have to drink every time one of these five code words for "team of white guys" is used by the announcers:
- Disciplined
- Team-oriented
- Gritty
- System player
- Scrappy

or High basketball IQ, smart players

 

[johnhuskies95]

Sneaky athleticism.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

Gym-rat gets 2 Jager Bombs

 

[Chief00]

Quite frankly while parts of this is why by certain accounts Stone never felt real comfortable at WI sometimes the media makes too much out of race. For anyone who has kids in an integrated town you will know a baby boomer sports writer looks at this stuff so differently than they do. Kids will joke about this stuff very openly. I was driving my daughter and two other players on her team to practice one day and was listening in on their conversation - a black girl was describing another player on the team ( who happened to be white) as being too"ghetto". Then they talked about her attitude and lack of team play. It made me realize the prism they view things through is so different - they view race differently.

 

[RichZ]

On Pittsburgh sports radio this morning they announced a drinking game for Wisky/UK. You have to drink every time one of these five code words for "team of white guys" is used by the announcers:
- Disciplined
- Team-oriented
- Gritty
- System player
- Scrappy

Billy Packer used to call every mostly white team "a very intelligent" team, and every totally non-white team "a very athletic" team. Or as he said it, ath-uh-letic.

 

[noeynox]

Only three players drafted in 14 years? That is an incredibly low rate for a program that has had the success they have had. We had two drafted last year alone.

 

[TheRogers]

Leave it to ESPN to bring this stuff up. Utterly stupid.

 

[upstater]

Leave it to ESPN to bring this stuff up. Utterly stupid.

It was due to Kaminsky's comment.

 

[TheRogers]

It was due to Kaminsky's comment.

True. But there were also other comments made that ESPN could've ran with. Whatever gets the most views I guess.

 

[willinphilly]

These guys are clowns. Wisconsin has a small black percentage, but last time I checked places like Oregon and Washington have much smaller black populations. You know what? Those basketball and football teams seem to have a lot of black players.
Also Steven A Smith - "a student population should reflect the general demographics of a state" -- notice he's not asking for the basketball team to reflect the local demographics, just the entire university body.
Wow...

 

[presskh]

The question that really should be asked is why are there not more "European American" kids in college BB? And by the way, I resent being referred to as simply a color just as much as as "African Americans" do. Please update your vocabulary to reflect current PC standards. I was appalled that this article referred to most Wisconsin players as "white".

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Thank God for double standards.

Between this and Harrison's comment we would've had a national crisis on our hands.