Since predominantly White Institutions have grown to accept more and more African-Americans into their sports program one of the downsides has been the talent pool for the institutions on the HBCU level. During the boom of the color barrier being broken the cream of the crop for black athletes could be found at your Historically Black Colleges. Many greats such as Sweetness, Gene Upshaw, Willie Brown, Gale Sayers, Warren Moon, Doug Williams, and the list goes on all attended and graduated from HBCUs and dominated their competition on their way to becoming game changing and Hall of Fame Players players. When the bigger school began to break their unofficial color barrier to recruit a larger plethora of these talented athletes many HBCUs began to fade into the background when athletes of color chose a school at which to hone their talents.
By the beginning of the 90’s the number of players drafted into the NFL decreased tenfold to the point where there would be one or two players, if any, would be drafted a year. This saddening turn of events takes a toll
