I'm sorry MVSU, but...


We will become a better conference by collectively putting our efforts into doing things that will strategically place us in situations that will garner out of conference success and grow the SWAC brand as a whole. There is room at the table for each institution to contribute to that success, but we must support each other.
 



The problem is HBCUs presidents don't work together. We all face the same things in these red neck azz southern states. At some point we gotta have presidents who have a conversation about how to grow together. There is strength in numbers and definitely no "I" in team.
 
PV-PRIDE said:
We will become a better conference by collectively putting our efforts into doing things that will strategically place us in situations that will garner out of conference success and grow the SWAC brand as a whole. There is room at the table for each institution to contribute to that success, but we must support each other.
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PREACH!

AMEN!
 
PV-PRIDE said:
We will become a better conference by collectively putting our efforts into doing things that will strategically place us in situations that will garner out of conference success and grow the SWAC brand as a whole. There is room at the table for each institution to contribute to that success, but we must support each other.
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those days are over unfortunately - AD's and President's have short life spans and no board cares about the success of another HBCU from a day to day standpoint unless its a partnership type agreement

Plus its about demographics - the most successful HBCUs now are going to be in high growth areas \ high populated areas or areas where they already have a foothold in historically - retention of alumni near the school is a big thing also and mississippi alumni (maybe not jackson as much) get out of town quick so they're not invested in the school honestly on a day to day to basis to help execute the growth
 
PV-PRIDE said:
We will become a better conference by collectively putting our efforts into doing things that will strategically place us in situations that will garner out of conference success and grow the SWAC brand as a whole. There is room at the table for each institution to contribute to that success, but we must support each other.
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The members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference are already doing that collectively. That's the purpose of an athletic conference. However, each member of the conference has a role to play. The presidents at each SWAC school can't be held accountable for what MVSU does or doesn't do, just like the leadership at Valley can't be held accountable for what the leadership does at the other membership schools.
 
CEE DOG said:
The problem is HBCUs presidents don't work together. We all face the same things in these red neck azz southern states. At some point we gotta have presidents who have a conversation about how to grow together. There is strength in numbers and definitely no "I" in team.
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I disagree. The presidents do work together, and their membership in conferences is indicative of that. We even have conference commissioners who come together for the greater good by reaching out to the Congressional Black Congress regarding NIL issues.
 
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We are not the SEC.....we are not getting hundreds of millions in conference payouts....lol.
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I did not say that specifically, but every little bit helps and can make a difference.

For example: Grambling has the following media deals, a mixture of deals from the SWAC and other agreements: ESPN (From the SWAC), HBCU Plus, and HBCU Go (from the SWAC). Keep in mind HBCU Go did make at least 3 distributions deals for HBCU media content to other entities (thus the interest is there from other entities). We know that HBCU Go does not have the capacity to host all SWAC content, we know ESPN does not take all content, and so why not past the left over content to an entity like HBCU Plus that is willing to pay for it.

TNT Sports with the lost of the NBA is looking for content and we know that the NFL Network has interest as well. While the HBCU Conferences may not ever get SEC money, but I can see them putting together a multi tier media deal that could get our conferences making in the low millions per year.
 
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CEE DOG said:
The problem is HBCUs presidents don't work together. We all face the same things in these red neck azz southern states. At some point we gotta have presidents who have a conversation about how to grow together. There is strength in numbers and definitely no "I" in team.
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I have seen HBCUs work together, but you would think it would happen more often. The public HBCUs in the state of North Carolina got together a few years ago to get their out of state students caps increased, which I believe most schools got them increase to 18 percent compared to the normal state percentage of 15 percent. ECSU got theirs lifted to 50 percent due to how close we are to Virginia, as Elizabeth City is closer to multiple Virginia major cities, 757, than major cities in North Carolina (with the closest one being Greenville in North Carolina).
 
Kenn Rashad said:
I disagree. The presidents do work together, and their membership in conferences is indicative of that. We even have conference commissioners who come together for the greater good by reaching out to the Congressional Black Congress regarding NIL issues.
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Do you think part of the problem, unless you go looking for the information, people don't know what type of collaborations our schools are doing together?

For the longest time, I did not know that the in the state of North Carolina that our schools have a state HBCU Caucus , which has members on both parties on it. The last couple of press events are ECSU republicans and democrats have been there front and center offering support to ECSU.
 
Kenn Rashad said:
I disagree. The presidents do work together, and their membership in conferences is indicative of that. We even have conference commissioners who come together for the greater good by reaching out to the Congressional Black Congress regarding NIL issues.
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I'm sure they do work together on some issues I don't disagree with you at all, but the problem is the average person doesn't know this. This is why our HBCU community as a whole doesn't have a lot of people who give back. If folks don't know they will not support in masses. Unfortunately that's how our community is. I mean is die heart people will but the others will not overwhelmingly. A perfect example of not working together is Alabama At and AAMU on the Magic City Classic. Bama St took the first deal smoking without trying to work together with A&M. Just saying. We both had two different deals until it was worked out.
 
CEE DOG said:
I'm sure they do work together on some issues I don't disagree with you at all, but the problem is the average person doesn't know this. This is why our HBCU community as a whole doesn't have a lot of people who give back. If folks don't know they will not support in masses. Unfortunately that's how our community is. I mean is die heart people will but the others will not overwhelmingly. A perfect example of not working together is Alabama At and AAMU on the Magic City Classic. Bama St took the first deal smoking without trying to work together with A&M. Just saying. We both had two different deals until it was worked out.
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Great point. I can't argue that one.
 
In_The_662 said:
3. Delta State's enrollment has plummeted the past years due to them trying to be MAGA lite in the black ___ Delta and ran off the students. They've had to slash many programs in order to offset them bleeding money
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You aint lying about Delta State attempting to push the MAGA agenda. I deliver for doordash/uber eats in the Cleveland area and I can tell you that those Delta State and Bayou Academy folks all have Trump signs in front of their big houses.
 
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