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Black Colleges Deserve A Spot In The Annual Bowl Picture

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Comments Posted on Jan 01, 2011 Last Updated Jan 01, 2011 Posted by Luke
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The holidays, especially New Year’s Day, is a beautiful time for college football. You have every kind of sponsored bowl game during the month of December and the first week of January for the BCS bowls. Champs, Chik-fil-A, Tostitos, and Capital One are just dozens of the corporations that throw down tens of millions of dollars to have their names appear in front of a bowl game. Even Maaco, a national auto body shop company, gets in on the action. Yet what’s missing from all these bowl games is representation from historically black colleges.

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Randy’s Gone, But Will Donna Shalala and Kirby Hocutt Step Up?

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Comments Posted on Dec 04, 2010 Last Updated Dec 07, 2010 Posted by Luke
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This week, Uncle Luke comes to terms with the end of the Randy Shannon era.

Saturday was one of the saddest days for Miami-Dade’s African American community with the firing of Randy Shannon as the University of Miami’s head football coach. At the end of the day, I can’t argue with athletic director Kirby Hocutt’s decision to let Shannon go, but his dismissal still hurts.

I haven’t hidden the fact that Shannon is a dear friend of mine, but his ascendancy to the top job of the Hurricanes program meant a lot to blacks. He was one of the few people of color to have a very high profile job in this town. We already know it is virtually impossible that a black person will ever be elected county mayor or be selected to be county manager, so seeing Shannon, a hometown guy, reach the mountain top was something the African American community could be proud of and aspire to.

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