Reusse column: Big Ten produces little football talent

[FanSinceTheFifties]

Reusse is missing one huge point: demographics. Black people are leaving the North in droves. The Great Migration populated Northern cities like Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh with former slave families looking to fill manufacturing jobs and get away from the tenant farm caste system that was prevalent in the South.

Fast forward 50-100 years and all of the manufacturing jobs are overseas. So why put up with the weather, concentrated poverty and higher cost of living? African-Americans are leaving, and they're heading to cities like Atlanta, Miami, Jacksonville, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte and Birmingham.

While the racism that was prevalent in the Southern United States is still evident, it's not nearly as toxic as it was a few decades ago, and it certainly doesn't extend to the playing field. Thus, their children are picking to attend Georgia, Alabama and Florida rather than Michigan, Ohio State or Penn State.

But yes, Reusse can blame the entire situation on a football conference...and lacrosse.

I guess you don't follow Gopher basketball.

 

[Unregistered User]

So you attack with kindergarten name-calling?

No...questioning the level of logic used is not name-calling. Calling him Fatprick, like I did, would be considered name-calling.

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

Why drag facts into this?

I agree!