"When you're talking tennis, golf, swimming, and other sports where there are poor percentages of minority participation, that's a reflection of the fact that in our society we don't provide a lot of good programs at the secondary level, so we don't see high participation rates for those sports," said NCAA executive director Dr. Cedric Dempsey.
"But it's inexcusable in sports like baseball, basketball, and track, where we have high participation numbers of minorities not to have more minority coaches," he added.
Among other findings:
* Division III had the worst record of all NCAA divisions. More than 70 percent of all Division III college athletic directors were White men. Only 3.4 percent were Black men.
* The percentage of Black athletes in colleges has declined over the past five years while participation of Hispanic student-athletes has gone up slightly.
* League offices in all three pro sports had a better minority hiring record than teams.
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