Player careers are straightforward: build up the skills of your athlete as you take the path toward superstar. Coaches also double as general managers, installing game plans and managing playbooks along with negotiating contracts, signing free agents and drafting potential studs. It's similar to Franchise mode minus owner tasks such as setting ticket prices or upgrading the stadium.."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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