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because Massa promised them more time in front of the television.So basically they'd form a partial meac in the BS? Why not just stay?
I love FAMU but all of that traveling from Florida to SWAC schools is going to be terrible money wise when you look at games outside of them vs Jackson State Grambling & Southern.I don't wish for the demise of the MEAC as it has some great institutional members, but if schools are leaving I would love to have FAMU in the SWAC!
So basically they'd form a partial meac in the BS? Why not just stay?
I love FAMU but all of that traveling from Florida to SWAC schools is going to be terrible money wise when you look at games outside of them vs Jackson State Grambling & Southern.
Yet they don't get more TV time. Maybe more streaming time.because Massa promised them more time in front of the television.
So basically they'd form a partial meac in the BS? Why not just stay?
Let's say FAMU and B-CU comes to the SWAC. That gives the SWAC a 12-team membership and 6-team divisions. Only change you'd probably have to do is move Alcorn to the Western Division and adopt an 8-game schedule with five division opponents, two other divisional opponents and one permanent team from the other division (I think that's the old SEC model).
That would greatly reduce travel costs in football. You can figure out divisional-heavy schedules in other sports to defray travel costs.
This was my thought. As more MEAC schools make this move it makes even less sense. I suspect that both Hampton and A&T's move was motivated in part by "special/only negro" syndrome. What happens next when your new home becomes the very thing you tried to leave (except with less power and influence)?
Do you think it would present a problem having the top 3 conference football teams and the top 3 conference men basketball teams all in the Western Division?
This part! McClelland is progressive enough to make it happen.Football might not be the problem, since you can take some of those games and turn them into potentially money-making neutral site games.
That is a mean difference of 100 miles of less, it could work. I don't want to leave the East, but I willing to make sacrifices for a successful transition.Things are cyclical. All schools are one bad hire away from suckitude, regardless of level. If you want to balance the divisions, you'd move Alcorn to the Western Division if you bring FAMU and B-CU into the east.
Football might not be the problem, since you can take some of those games and turn them into potentially money-making neutral site games. The two-division format has to reduce costs in basketball, baseball/softball and other sports. That might have to coincide with a change of days of the week games are played, etc.
We're just spitballing here, but at this time you can't leave any stone unturned.
If you want to compare BCU and FAMU travel to the closest MEAC members (excluding NCAT since they're leaving):
FAMU to Alabama State: 206
FAMU to Bethune Cookman: 254
FAMU to Alabama A&M: 403
FAMU to Jackson State: 437
FAMU to Mississippi Valley: 522
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FAMU to SC State: 333
FAMU to NC Central: 591
BCU to FAMU: 254
BCU to Alabama State: 449
BCU to Alabama A&M: 616
BCU to Jackson State: 688
BCU to Mississippi Valley: 732
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BCU to SC State: 337
BCU to NC Central: 571
If you want to look at how Alcorn sits with the current West members
Alcorn to Southern: 109
Alcorn to Grambling: 152
Alcorn to Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 212
Alcorn to Texas Southern: 355
Alcorn to PV: 398
Hmmm, some folks need to be colonized.....LOL
This part! McClelland is progressive enough to make it happen.