HS kids in Miami were dancing and talking sht when they scored, then going to college and being told to tone it down. Incidentally, the majority of those kids were black. That's the way they acted and they were black. Other kids were all polite about having scored, and most of those kids happened to be white. That's the way they acted and they were white. So if one wanted to generalize, and I understand that generalizing is frowned upon, one might say that black kids tended to act a certain way and white kids tended to act a certain, different, way.
Howard told them to come to Miami and act the way they wanted. The rest of college football, which at the time was largely run by white coaches and fans didn't like it so they started to call the kids names. Not n***ers, because even then that was frowned upon, rather they called them "thugs" and "hoodlums" and "criminals" and, dare I say, "bad boys". Catholics vs. Convicts anyone? You want to tell me that wasn't about race and culture?
