 Sean Gregory of Time wrote of Lin 's zero Division I scholarship offers : " [ Lin ] was scrawny , but don 't doubt that a little racial profiling , intentional or otherwise , contributed to his underrecruitment . " Diepenbrock stated , " If [ Lin ] was African American or Caucasian , it might have been a different deal " ; he did not think Lin 's race affected his recruiting until later seeing 10 Division I coaches express interest in a black student who Diepenbrock assessed as " a nice junior college player " . Lin said : " I 'm not saying top @-@ 5 state automatically gets you offers , but I do think [ my ethnicity ] did affect the way coaches recruited me . I think if I were a different race , I would 've been treated differently . " Walters added , " People who don 't think stereotypes exist are crazy . If [ Lin 's ] white , he 's either a good shooter or heady . If he 's Asian , he 's good at math . We 're not taking him . " During Lin 's college career , fewer than 0 @.@ 5 % of men 's Division 1 basketball players were Asian @-@ American . 
