This is gonna sound out there and too far but here is a suggestion for the HBCUs. Quit the NCAAs. Do themselves. Pay the athletes. Start with the 2 sports that take the least money to develop. Track and basketball. Football is a high expense sport.
Anyway, pay HS basketball prospects. How much? That can be worked out later. Not imoportant right now but the concept. The market I would think would be the (back in the day) And1 types. Great play ground players, but didn't have the grades, and/or troubled background, maybe caught a weed charge or whatever. Second is the ones that want to go pro pretty much right away.
Anyway, split the shoe contracts with them, give them a cut. Pay 'em a cut out of merchandizing, jerseys. Form our own league. Get a phat ass TV contract, streaming all that. Get some young college Euro players.
Get rappers and entertainers to wear the jerseys. A ton of the black clothing lines, FUBU, Karl Kani of the '90s got big because rappers rocked them. Then the street cats, drug dealers, ballers.
Same strategy. Eventually you will get the elite HS players. With the millions generated you then build up the educational part of the school. Pay black professors, lower the tuition because you are bringing in big money. The major Division 1 schools make anywhere from 40 to 50 million or more a year off football alone. Eventually build up the football program.
Put a lot of those millions into academic scholarships for STEM majors. Get us a sh*t load more of black engineers, doctors, also lawyers, teachers.
We are the NCAA football, basketball and track and growing in gymnastics. What really frustrates the f*ck out of me is us not using the power we have over everyone for our own benefit. If this is done right, JSU, Howard, and Southern b ball jerseys will be on sale in Foot Locker all over the country and kids in London, Manila and Lagos would be rocking it.
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