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Post by roarman53 on Feb 12, 2024 13:13:51 GMT -5
Would it be a positive move for HBCU or a negative? How would it effect the SWAC Championship Game, the Celebration Bowl and the FCS Playoffs?
I remember that Deion Sanders was suggesting this at one time while at JSU.
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Post by tsucrat on Feb 12, 2024 19:37:56 GMT -5
I don't it would be a good idea. The CB in it's current format is the best for meac/swac right now. Merging would probably take away lot of current lure of the CB. Now if the meac or other 3 D1 HBCUs start making regular appearances in the fcs top 10, then maybe start considering changing to have the 2 top D1 HBCUs in the CB.
IMO the MEAC is in the sweet spot. The CB is conference goal. But with the conference only having 6 FB teams, there's plenty of room to play quality teams to increase fb profile
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Post by tsundenver on Feb 12, 2024 22:19:58 GMT -5
They would lose too much money from the NCAA basketball tournament. Right now both conference gets a piece of the pot. If they merge that pot will be cut in half and must be shared by too many teams.
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Post by tsucrat on Feb 13, 2024 9:11:25 GMT -5
Didn't think about the bball side of things, but yeah that too. Yeah, Deion was just wrong that time.
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Post by jaythomas on Feb 13, 2024 11:57:23 GMT -5
Deion had some good idea....this is not one of them.
As it relates to football, its quite lopsided right now with the SWAC and the MEAC.
And that is not the fault of the SWAC; I blame the MEAC for that. We heard rumblings
from certain MEAC schools for years...and then they dipped one right after the other.
BUT I DIGRESS. I always felt like there was room for a 3rd HBCU conference which
could have included Tennessee State, Ala State, Ala A&M, Bethune-Cookman and
FAMU and a few others that would make either an 8-or-10-member conference.
The MEAC really needs to be looking to and some way maybe helping to facilitate
several CIAA teams to join the MEAC. Those CIAA teams are in the MEAC footprint
But one big hbcu conference? Naaaa....ONLY if the plan was to make it an FBS HBCU conference.
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