Can SWAC football recapture the excitement it had during the 80's and 90's?


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Can SWAC football recapture the excitement it had during the 80's and 90's?

Everyone looked forward to the weekend during football season. The stadiums were packed. Jackson State won the SWAC championships without any marquee players in the 1980’s, Southern also won SWAC without any marquee players in the 1990’s. Grambling won SWAC championships with Doug Williams. Alcorn won SWAC championships with Steve McNair. You had coaches such as Casem and Cooley and even Gorden “talking trash” before football games which really sold a lot of football tickets.

Did the economy, casinos, coaching, the SWAC expanding to ten teams (nine game mandate) or football coaches that don’t “trash talk” end this excitement? What happened?
 
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TXSU said:
Can SWAC football recapture the excitement it had during the 80's and 90's?

Everyone looked forward to the weekend during football season. The stadiums were packed. Jackson State won the SWAC championships without any marquee players in the 1980’s, Southern also won SWAC without any marquee players in the 1990’s. Grambling won SWAC championships with Doug Williams. Alcorn won SWAC championships with Steve McNair. You had coaches such as Casem and Cooley and even Gorden “talking trashâ€￾ before football games which really sold a lot of football tickets.

Did the economy, casinos, coaching, the SWAC expanding to twelve teams (nine game mandate) or football coaches that don’t “trash talkâ€￾ end this excitement? What happened?
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TXSU said:
Can SWAC football recapture the excitement it had during the 80's and 90's?

Everyone looked forward to the weekend during football season. The stadiums were packed. Jackson State won the SWAC championships without any marquee players in the 1980’s, Southern also won SWAC without any marquee players in the 1990’s. Grambling won SWAC championships with Doug Williams. Alcorn won SWAC championships with Steve McNair. You had coaches such as Casem and Cooley and even Gorden “talking trashâ€￾ before football games which really sold a lot of football tickets.

Did the economy, casinos, coaching, the SWAC expanding to twelve teams (nine game mandate) or football coaches that don’t “trash talkâ€￾ end this excitement? What happened?
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You are kidding right?????
 



Times have changed since the 80s and 90s. Economics and trends have really impacted the swac...Back then schools like Su, Gsu, Jsu and Alcorn were loaded with talent....had stability.....today...economics..have destroyed Hbcu....bigger schools have the funds to help more blacks.....It will be hard to duplicate the past...
 
The SWAC went Down when we started thinking sWAC only and playing Money Games as Non Conference... Back Then everyyear started as can we be the best in the Nation not what we have now.. i remember J State Pissed about not getting a Home game but ready to take on the Challenge on the Road, Remember Everyone ready from Grambling going to SF Austin to make the Run, Who can forget Alcornites headed over to Monroe for then NLU... even though we Lost way more then we Won in the playoffs, Fans was Geared up ready to Make it Back to the playoffs, Which meant that Everygame meant Everything, in I believed Fans Loved it... The hope of overcoming all the Hurdles to get to the national Championship, and a never say never attitude, is what kept the Staduims Packed. Cause who wanted to Miss a Game when McNair had the shot of Proving we are the Best, period?
I remember in 01 the Playoffs was moved back because of 911. Doug and Grambling thought we had something special and wanted that Shot... We felt like they could have sent us anywhere and we would win.. we wanted to be the Best, and fans saw that and they joined on the Journey...
Fans will be back when we want to be the Best with no subtitles again
 
I recall SU being pretty excited about football a lot, and I don't recall us ever being in the playoffs. We just wanted to beat the breaks off of Grambling and JSU.
 
stroke said:
The SWAC went Down when we started thinking sWAC only and playing Money Games as Non Conference... Back Then everyyear started as can we be the best in the Nation not what we have now.. i remember J State Pissed about not getting a Home game but ready to take on the Challenge on the Road, Remember Everyone ready from Grambling going to SF Austin to make the Run, Who can forget Alcornites headed over to Monroe for then NLU... even though we Lost way more then we Won in the playoffs, Fans was Geared up ready to Make it Back to the playoffs, Which meant that Everygame meant Everything, in I believed Fans Loved it... The hope of overcoming all the Hurdles to get to the national Championship, and a never say never attitude, is what kept the Staduims Packed. Cause who wanted to Miss a Game when McNair had the shot of Proving we are the Best, period?
I remember in 01 the Playoffs was moved back because of 911. Doug and Grambling thought we had something special and wanted that Shot... We felt like they could have sent us anywhere and we would win.. we wanted to be the Best, and fans saw that and they joined on the Journey...
Fans will be back when we want to be the Best with no subtitles again
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I think the opposite. What happened (IMHO) is similar to basketball. Back then, the SWAC had a unique product. We played an exciting style and most teams was trying to bust the scoreboard wide open. In a typical SWAC Game, you were gonna see great passes, great runs and excitement all game long.

Then we start this new "we gotta play like the white boys to beat the white boys" style. Them old school coaches were geniuses and didn't give a damn about what others said. Now, a majority of the swac plays a boring (for our people) style of football, the football puriest agree with it, but the vast majority perfer the wide open style.
 
Eddie Robinson, Jr. - ASU
Aeneas Williams - SU (not a marquee player?)
Calvin Magee - SU
Mike Strahan - TSU

Don't ya'll get me started....
 
TXSU never mentioned Top 5 in Heisman voting when he created this thread. He said there weren't any marquee players on JSU championship teams in the 80s. I gave him a name that was a marquee player. Then someone else brought up Heisman voting that had nothing to do with the topic.
 
Dr. Phreeze said:
TXSU never mentioned Top 5 in Heisman voting when he created this thread. He said there weren't any marquee players on JSU championship teams in the 80s. I gave him a name that was a marquee player. Then someone else brought up Heisman voting that had nothing to do with the topic.
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The way they used to talk shyatt back then, when the Jackson state people finished talking, who ever they had was a marquee player, and they way the ran up the damn score on everyone, they would have the stats to back it up.
 
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