It’s Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges

In the summer of 2018 Kayvon Thibodeaux, who was then ranked as the top high-school football player in America, visited Florida A&M University, in Tallahassee. When a player of Thibodeaux’s caliber visits a perennial football power—say, Alabama—it’s called Wednesday. But when he visits a historically black college or university (HBCU) like Florida A&M, it threatens to crack the foundation on which the moneymaking edifice of college sports rests.

“I really just wanted to learn the history of FAMU,” Thibodeaux, a defensive end who received a scholarship offer from the school...