8/31/2003

The REALLY good side of college sports. Do names like Omar, Lua, Torres, Ting, Chavez and Matua along with the always present McDonald, Adams, Spanos, and so on appear in your work place? In your department? On the executive wash room list? Well they do on the playing roster of the University of Southern California football team. Every color, every eye shape, and one presumes every religion is not only playing, but kicking ass on a top college team. This is the very good side of college football. Diversity based on merit. No, it's merit only and when it's "merit only" Diversity is the result. Nobody is playing on this team because some liberal bean counter demanded so many "Latinos" or something else. Sports on the college level and the entire military from top to bottom show what can be done based on merit. USC broke the "color barrier" in the SEC back in the 70's when their black players kicked the shit out of all white Alabama; yesterday a United Nations football team kicked the shit out of an exclusive club of black southern players. Not a bad deal.

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