Tuskegee is smoking that stuff and I blame AAMU. What the heck were yall thinking ever going down there to play them? Bama State should get Auburn to switch there game to bama state's stadium... lol. Tuskegee thinks they are the equals of AAMU and state because they can win some games off of them. Doesn't make them equals... just makes the hornets and bulldogs sorry. As for the playoffs, I want our schools to participate and win, but if it doesn't make dollars it doesn't make sense. So you have to force the hand of the ncaa. You play all the good schools during the regular season and beat the breaks off of them. Then when playoff time comes around and your not participating everyone will say, yeah, ND State won but we all know the best teams are in the swac but they won't pay to play in our championship. That how you delegitimize their event and make them change it to something financially worthwhile.
That is why it was important to get away from the 9 game mandate and that is also why the swac shouldn't allow us to fill up our schedules with DII schools or play swac schools as nonconference opponents. At some point you've got to take your lumps to get better and you can't let a coach or AD that wants to hide for their personal short term gain stand in the way of long term progress.