Is it worth donating to a program that is not on national TV? What are the programs goals? The goals of HBCUs is to beat your other HBCU rival and for your band to shine during halftime. Misuse of funds can occur when there is no care for the program. Ever seen a home that is going into foreclosure? You will find missing faucets, door knobs, ceiling fans, chandeliers, etc. It becomes a place for scavengers. Ever seen a home in which the owners are able to pay their mortgage every month with money left over? They make upgrades, the value increases, they have equity. It becomes a place for investors. Misuse of funds at PWI are hidden under the guise of "salary increases" and "bonuses" and "contract work". You think Texas is just letting the $50 million they receive a year sit in a bank
I get emails from Texas all the time telling me to give them money while they are making money hand over fist. Having a good football team on the national stage brings PRIDE to alumni which in turn brings in a larger pool of students and more MONEY. It makes them want to give back. A&M received $726 million dollars from alumni last year, their largest year ever and the football teams success had just about everything to do with it.
In order to make money in college sports and grow your program...you will need to get into conferences that have TV contracts. Schools like Grambling under Eddie Robinson had every right to try and move up to better conferences but they discourage themselves from making those moves. Texas State, Texas-San Antonio and many others actively seek to move up to get a bigger piece of the pie. That is part of growing the program. It seems like we are either scared of being rejected or don't want to grow what we have.
JUST A SUGGESTION: If HBCUs like Grambling under Eddie Robinson applied to try and move it into bigger $ conferences it would set a
prima facie for them and other HBCUs to follow suit. A
prima facie is basically making a case or building a case for future legal action. If schools like Southern and FAMU do the same and are rejected from entering these conferences while other PWIs are getting in... then you can develop a legal grounds for these conference to provide documentation and justification as to why they let these PWIs in. With that you can use it as a guideline to follow as a goal for your program if its legit or to see if the documentation is full of shyt and prepare to call them out on it. Now you can bring a class action lawsuit against these conferences and the NCAA for discrimination against your schools for no justifiable reason. They will more than likely settle out of court and the NCAA will be forced to bring you in these conferences as a resolution. The NCAA would not want that kind of trouble, especially with the racial overtone that would be involved.
If you believe that a bunch of kids are able to sue the NCAA and get them to stop producing the EA Sports NCAA Football that was making hundreds of millions of dollars but HBCUs cannot sue conferences and the NCAA for the way they are marginalizing them, then I do not know what else to tell you.
historic tournament run? more than likely they will be a 16 seed, which means they will be out in 1st Round
