The importance of doing this was reinforced last summer as some friends and I opted to ride the Loneliest Road in America across Nevada. We stopped for lunch at the Toiyabe Caf in Austin. In it's heyday, silver mining was this part of Nevada's claim to fame."Someone like Bear Bryant had power that couldn't be measured he was on a level with Elvis and Martin Luther King Jr.," says William Ferris, professor of Southern history and folklore at the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill. Head coaching is "an area where blacks have not really been allowed to move in a significant way."Nearly half (42.1 percent) of college football players were AfricanAmerican in the 200101 season down from 47.6 percent four years earlier, according to Lapchick. The fluctuation, he says, is too recent to discern a trend.

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