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An NCAA task force recommended on Friday that incoming freshmen in Division I and II sports should no longer be required to meet minimum scores on standardized tests for initial eligibility.

The recommendation was made by the NCAA Standardized Test Score Task Force, which was formed as part of the NCAA's eight-point plan to advance racial equity. The Division I Committee on Academics and Division II Academic Requirements Committee will consider the recommendation at their next scheduled meetings in February. Changes to initial-eligibility requirements would also have to be reviewed and made through each division's legislative process.

"This work reflects the NCAA's commitment to continually reviewing our academic standards based on the best available data and other relevant information," task force chairman David Wilson, president at Morgan State, said in an NCAA release. "We are observing a national trend in NCAA member schools moving away from requiring standardized test scores for admissions purposes and this recommendation for athletics eligibility aligns directly with that movement."

In the release, the NCAA said the task force consulted with several groups, including the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, the National Association for College Admission Counseling, and Division I and II member schools, as well as the testing agencies, specifically the ACT and College Board, which administers the SAT.

In July 2020, the National Association of Basketball Coaches called for the NCAA to permanently eliminate standardized test scores from eligibility requirements.

"The days of colleges requiring the SAT or ACT are passing rapidly: more than half of all four-year colleges and universities will not require these tests for admissions in 2021, and more are dropping the requirement every week," the NABC said in a statement at the time. "These tests should no longer be required in the initial-eligibility standards. The tests are again being recognized as forces of institutional racism, which is consistent with their history, and they should be jettisoned for that reason alone; moreover, pragmatics also support this change."

The NCAA's eight-point plan to address racial equity and social justice also called for the NCAA to review the Academic Progress Rate and its impact on historically Black colleges and universities. In August, the Division I board of directors ratified a change that will allow Division I transfers to earn APR points for their previous teams if they meet progress-toward-degree requirements at their new schools.
 
This is akin to not assigning “F” grades. They’re saying that minorities are not capable of scoring high enough (probably the same people that say minorities don’t have, or don’t know how to get, a photo ID) on standardized tests. Higher education will now just be lernin’ or advanced high school. While college athletes represent a very small percentage of college students, it will soon apply to all students (expect a discrimination lawsuit because regular students still have minimum test scores to meet). As a result, we will soon have college graduates with higher GPAs (no F grades in the calculation) but won’t know how to solve basic business problems. These graduates won’t be able to get white collar jobs (can’t pass the interview) and the economy goes into the tank.

I’ve ranted enough.
 
So much in America today makes no sense and this despicable recommendation by the NCAA Task Force on Racial Equality ranks near the top. Black athletes dominate college football and basketball rosters and yet some leftist racists with the NCAA claim colleges must drop the minimum entrance exam scores to zero in order the provide equality for black athletes? Everything the left touches it harms and eventually destroys. Why should college football be any different? Add this ridiculous policy to the transfer portal and NIL and you’ve created something that’s still called college football but in name only.
 
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