Mega Conference

g money January 28, 2011 at 11:50pm

Yea I know the chances of this happening is zero, but its just would be good to see all these things. Yea I do like you guys new gym I went to a concert that was held there last year Trey Songz, Common, and Fabolous was there. Generally speaking most PWC's travel thousand of miles for a in conference game for example Miami and Boston College or in the same conference and thats got to be like a whole day trip, but I do know most HBCU's don't have that type of funding.

number1 January 30, 2011 at 2:09am

2 things wrong with what you said:

1. FAMU, and the MEAC and SWAC are all D-1 schools, they are just classified as FCS in football. Every other sport those schools are D-1.

2. There is no way in the world that FAMU would dare try to move to FBS again after that failed attempt a few years ago. FAMU needs to focus on becoming a competitive team in FCS before trying to act "almighty" again.

TXSU would have to get a second look, they would bring in the Houston market, and they have a new stadium coming.

I don't see what is so big about joining a horrible FBS conference like the Sun Belt or the WAC and getting the brakes beat off of you for years. Do you really think FAMU fans are going to come out in droves to see you lose to Florida Atlantic, UL-Lafayette, and North Texas?

In Florida, the pecking order in football is:

1. University of Florida

2. Florida State University

3. University of Miami

4. University of South Florida

5. University of Central Florida

6. Florida Atlantic University

7. Florida International University

number1 January 30, 2011 at 3:59pm

You FAMU people always get me. You can't even dominate the MEAC and are talking about moving up to FBS again. The past is the past, those days are long gone. Please tell me what conference would FAMU join, the Sun Belt? Also, for your school to be attractive, your other sports have to be good too? How has FAMU faired in Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Gymnastics, Swimming and Diving, etc.?

You mentioned UCF is growing, but how realistic is it to expect FAMU to grow substantially when you already have a MAJOR college not across town, but right next door to you? Not to mention the state flagship just a few hours away. UCF is large not because of their move to FBS, but because they are in a major city, Orlando. Take a look at Appalachain State, James Madison, Texas State, those schools are larger than a lot of FBS, and they are all still FCS. Even North Texas has more students than half of the SEC and Big 12, but how successful has their program been after 10+ years in the FBS? For every Boise State there is a North Texas, for every USF there is a Western Kentucky. The schools that have been successful are usually located in areas where they can dominate the support and have a ton of recruiting success(Boise State, USF(tampa area), UCONN). List any situation where you have 2 successful major programs at public universities right around the corner from each other in a small city?

number1 January 30, 2011 at 4:01pm

We don't need a mega conference, just give us Tennessee State and Tuskegee and make the SWAC a 12-team conference. We don't need the MEAC to make our conference good. This way the SWAC could re-align the divisions like this:

East:

Jackson State (Southern)

Tennessee State (UAPB)

Tuskegee (PVAMU)

Alabama State (Texas Southern)

Miss. Valley State (Alcorn State)

Alabama A&M (Grambling)

West:

Southern (Jackson State)

Grambling (Alabama A&M)

Prairie View A&M (Tuskegee)

Texas Southern (Alabama State)

Alcorn State (Valley)

UAPB (Tennessee State)

That way each school will have a permanent rival( ) from the opposite division that they will play every season, and the other 2 non-division opponents will be rotated every 2 years.

MarchingbandGURU January 30, 2011 at 7:18pm

Brandon L said:

Realistically its hard to do and would most likely never happen. The major players in the SWAC would never leave and there is too much distance between SWAC and MEAC schools. You also cannot create a conference with schools from all hbcu conferences because they are on different divisions. Additionally, FAMU would never go for it because we are trying to poise ourselves for a re-entry to a D1 conference once our athletic finances are in order and the NCAA lift the ban in 2012 on new schools coming in. That is the main reason why we built the new 10,000seat basketball arena and are planning to increase our stadium to seat 45,000.

However, just for fun my conference would have 12 schools.

Florida A&M

Bethune Cookman

South Carolina State

Hampton

Norfolk

North Carolina A&T

Southern

Grambling

Alabama A&M

Alabama State

Jackson State

Tennessee State

Each one of those schools have huge fan bases, are not too far in distance, competitive programs, heated rivalrys, great bands, and facilities large enough to make money. To protect the integrity of the conference, I would install requirements that must be met for a new school to join such as there must be an average of 10,000 at each home football game, facility size requirements such as 15,000 for football and 3,500 for basketball, etc....

Lol, since when did hampton and norfolk get huge fan bases??

And what is A&Ts competitive sport other than womens basketball?

O_o

Mega Conference

With all these teams leaving this conference and going to the next its kind of hard to see the matchups you want to see but if you could put together…

James Ledford January 30, 2011 at 7:45pm

G money......you know u got TXSU twice right

James Ledford January 30, 2011 at 8:01pm

whay would you take a mississippi team and put them in the WEST that kinda crazy since they are in the east wit the other mississippi schools they should stay where they are.......if anything id put TNSU in the west and place skegee in the east or instead of skegee pick up CAU or miles or do some community service and help MoB rise back up
number1 said:

We don't need a mega conference, just give us Tennessee State and Tuskegee and make the SWAC a 12-team conference. We don't need the MEAC to make our conference good. This way the SWAC could re-align the divisions like this:

East:

Jackson State (Southern)

Tennessee State (UAPB)

Tuskegee (PVAMU)

Alabama State (Texas Southern)

Miss. Valley State (Alcorn State)

Alabama A&M (Grambling)

West:

Southern (Jackson State)

Grambling (Alabama A&M)

Prairie View A&M (Tuskegee)

Texas Southern (Alabama State)

Alcorn State (Valley)

UAPB (Tennessee State)

That way each school will have a permanent rival( ) from the opposite division that they will play every season, and the other 2 non-division opponents will be rotated every 2 years.

g money January 30, 2011 at 8:11pm

Dang thanks James in place of one of those TXSU. I would put Winston Salem Sate It would be two division

North

NSU

NCAT

SCSU

VSU

WSSU

TNSU

UAPB

CAU

SOUTH

ASU

AAMU

TXSU

FAMU

JSU

SU

BCC

PVU

With a schedule and conference like this you can't take a week off. Bigger games would be played at nuetral sites with a battle of the band scheduled for the previous night.

2duqpzglmw0wr January 30, 2011 at 8:23pm

CAU? By the way there is no way Grambling would be left out in an HBCU Mega conference, no way. I'm still shocked that someone put CAU in an HBCU Mega Conference. Guess that's why it's a dream.

g money January 30, 2011 at 8:27pm

In the beginning I did have Grambling but I took them out since I wanted to add at least one school from each hbcu conference.

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