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Posted by: malcolm xx

According to study released by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics found athlectic directors, confrence commissioners and university presidents " overwhelmingly are white". The study on data from 2004-05 :

- All 11 NCAA Division 1-A conference commissioners- called " the most powerful people in colege sports- were white men.

- All 35 conference commissioners in Division 1 were white. 6 were woomen

-In Divisiion 1-A, 94.1 percent of university presidents of the NCAA were white, 3.4 percent were Black 2.5 percent were Latino. !5 women have position

- Out of 119 Division 1-A football programs, 6 Blacks have head coaching position. But Black players make up 45.4 percent of athltetes.

_ Blacks made up 57.8 percent of Division 1 basketball players but make up only 25.2 percent of of all Division I head coaches.

" The situation still remains that people who lead college sports in America are still white, which doesn't reflect the student athltetes on the teams they represent."

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