DSU leaving the MEAC?


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westcoastaggie said:
No. From my understanding, the president and their BOT aren't ready to pull that trigger and effectively kill off the MEAC.

No one else is leaving the conference anytime soon.
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To go where? In reality there’s little out there that makes them appealing as location sucks and what do they bring to the table outside bowling?
 
ghostwriter said:
To go where? In reality there’s little out there that makes them appealing as location sucks and what do they bring to the table outside bowling?
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The only conference that makes any sense is to follow their daddy Delaware wherever they are

But like daddy Delaware, they would bring nothing to the table. They'd just be another HBCU in a PWI conference
 
Wow. Hope not. Like I said before. What happens to the Celebration bowl. Will it soon be a bowl between the SWAC and a Div II conference team. Not appealing. Nothing for the teams to look forward to besides a conference championship
 
Stillabrave said:
Wow. Hope not. Like I said before. What happens to the Celebration bowl. Will it soon be a bowl between the SWAC and a Div II conference team. Not appealing. Nothing for the teams to look forward to besides a conference championship
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NCAA outlawed inter divisional postseason football.l decades ago.
Remember Alcorn and the Liberty Bowl?

also, you can’t participate in the FCS playoffs then participate in the Celebration Bowl the same year.
 
dieharddawg said:
Celebration Bowl not going anywhere, contingency plans has always been in place for SWAC Champion and highest ranked D1 HBCU outside SWAC. Also, IVY League has always wanted to play in bowl game, but Celebration Bowl is here to stay with or without the MEAC.
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I really don’t think so. The special ingredients of two HBCU Conference Championships from HBCU Conferences adds the flavor needed to succeed.

The Bowl wants to stay, but it’s not here to stay. Big difference. There is no way this Bowl holds up with the SWAC Champion is playing against the highest ranked HBCU from another random FCS conference. There are too many odd situations out there that will make this not work. Many former MEAC programs, (many who didn’t want a Celebration Bowl and referred to it as another Chitlin Bowl anyway), will be turn it down. Many FCS Conferences hate the Celebration Bowl and its quick rise to College Bowl List fame and want it eliminated. Those conferences in particular might discourage or intimidate their schools in participating in the Bowl Game. The FCS Playoff officials hate the Celebration Bowl and want a Major Network Bowl like the Celebration Bowl. They will do whatever that can to ruin this Bowl Game with only one Division I HBCU Conference standing.

I am very concerned. I truly believe that the Celebration Bowl is in trouble.
 
westcoastaggie said:
I don't know the appeal other than geography but the NEC invited them to join.
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Delaware
Duquesne
Saint Francis
Sacred Heart
LIU
Bryant
Wagner
Central Connecticut
Merrimack
Robert Morris (I think they are still in.)

The NEC is the only place for them to go. Why? Because Patriot League will be a deep end of non major sports for Del State and force to to make so called minor sports a priority. With all of their troubles, they won’t be excited to make facility and competitive improvements to their non football and basketball programs. The PL would be too demanding to a program that is happy with a 6 win football season, and cherishes Delaware's
Punch!

The Colonial (CAA) is too much for them, and an Independent move will officially put Del State on suicide watch.
 



Basebone1898 said:
Delaware
Duquesne
Saint Francis
Sacred Heart
LIU
Bryant
Wagner
Central Connecticut
Merrimack
Robert Morris (I think they are still in.)

The NEC is the only place for them to go. Why? Because Patriot League will be a deep end of non major sports for Del State and force to to make so called minor sports a priority. With all of their troubles, they won’t be excited to make facility and competitive improvements to their non football and basketball programs. The PL would be too demanding to a program that is happy with a 6 win football season, and cherishes Delaware's
Punch!

The Colonial (CAA) is too much for them, and an Independent move will officially put Del State on suicide watch.
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Robert Morris is in the Horizon League and Big South (for football) now.
 
Delaware State will do whatever Master Delaware tells them to do. With the MEAC rapidly collapsing, this is the best chance to grab a microphone for the conference. They will not survive on the Division I level outside of the MEAC. The NEC won’t sell any tickets. The CAA might invite them to wash dishes and cook for the conference. They can’t survive and an Independent because no HBCU wants to schedule home and homes vs them. Delaware State will be be in the CIAA soon and very soon. The tap dancing for Delaware job isn’t paying the bills.
 
SWAC&MEAC Degrees said:
Delaware State will do whatever Master Delaware tells them to do. With the MEAC rapidly collapsing, this is the best chance to grab a microphone for the conference. They will not survive on the Division I level outside of the MEAC. The NEC won’t sell any tickets. The CAA might invite them to wash dishes and cook for the conference. They can’t survive and an Independent because no HBCU wants to schedule home and homes vs them. Delaware State will be be in the CIAA soon and very soon. The tap dancing for Delaware job isn’t paying the bills.
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Delaware State averaged 1,514 fans per game in 2019
 
EagleWing said:
Travel isn’t the issue it once was with FAMU & and BCU exiting the conference. SCSU is the furthest trip and that’s every other year. After July 1st the MEAC will be pretty much a bus league.
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Bingo.

And if they can convince 1-3 of those VA D2 HBCUs and/or WSSU to somehow move up, it would still be a bus league. On the contrary, if they moved down to the CIAA, they would still be a bus league with SSU being that lone long trip every two years
 
In_The_662 said:
Bingo.

And if they can convince 1-3 of those VA D2 HBCUs and/or WSSU to somehow move up, it would still be a bus league. On the contrary, if they moved down to the CIAA, they would still be a bus league with SSU being that lone long trip every two years
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Do any of those D2 HBCUs have the funds to move up?
 
In_The_662 said:
Bingo.

And if they can convince 1-3 of those VA D2 HBCUs and/or WSSU to somehow move up, it would still be a bus league. On the contrary, if they moved down to the CIAA, they would still be a bus league with SSU being that lone long trip every two years
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As much as I would love to have Virginia State in the MEAC, I don’t see a D2 school making the jump anytime soon.
 
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