Coach Prime weighing the option of Jackson St. leaving the SWAC and moving up.

[MostReal]

Deion wants to be in that Power 5 space

Yep
It's where his heart at. JSU is outta here, unless he leaves them

 

[MostReal]

Jackson St isn't being accepted by the ACC let alone the Big 10. Do y'all know how this works?

No how does it work

 

[ReformedLurker]

HBCU presidents and alum need to do a better job of donating and finding other ways to make money.

When they stop rotating presidents who embezzle money from one school to the next then alums will donate more. "We don't know where the money went"

 

[Big Boss]

I think they’re fine where they’re at, like @staticshock was alluding to, is it better to stay in SWAC and keep your rivalries or play in Huntington, West Virginia in November fighting for a spot in the Dollar General bowl?

That's another thing will those PWI travel to those HBCU stadiums.


Plus there will be no zero qtr and fifth qtr with the bands

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

No how does it work

If Deion would've raised his hand before USC & UCLA, Jackson State could've gotten that B10 slot. Missed opportunity by their athletic department.

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

A move to a sun belt type conference in time may be the move

no reason they can’t be app state or coastal Carolina level program

maybe even a conference like the MAC or AAC gets desperate enough


nikkas talking ACC and Big 10 are out their damned minds

 

[Richard Glidewell]

It's too soon to even talk about it.......let the Jackson State rising tide bring other along in its wake so that everybody eats. As soon as shyt starts to get good for one everything turns selfish on some short term shyt. Group economics, bargaining power, shyt wait until a couple other schools start to rise and have other schools join you. The plan was supposed to be for an HBCU revival.........shyt is shaking out funny in the light

 

[Karume]

life often breeds opportunities for jealousy not necessarily of what is but of what could be

Karume

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[MostReal]

It's too soon to even talk about it.......let the Jackson State rising tide bring other along in its wake so that everybody eats. As soon as shyt starts to get good for one everything turns selfish on some short term shyt. Group economics, bargaining power, shyt wait until a couple other schools start to rise and have other schools join you. The plan was supposed to be for an HBCU revival.........shyt is shaking out funny in the light

I don't think Deion has the patience for all that

 

[Tony D'Amato]

South Carolina State vs. Jackson State - Game Summary - December 18, 2021 - ESPN

Get a summary of the South Carolina State Bulldogs vs. Jackson State Tigers football game

www.espn.com

For some reason I thought this was a swac championship game. Oh well. Go win the MEAC

 

[Shadow King]

Eventually, what’s going to end up happening is those Power 5 schools will stop paying to play them.

HBCU’s have to step up financially. If they start getting better talent the money will come. We’re our own worst enemy. We should be able to recruit our own people. Especially in the south. You got all these rappers in the south making millions and don’t even support these institutions.


If HBCU’s don’t step up they will get left even further behind.

Recruiting takes money

 

[pete clemenza]

Ok..say they’re in those conferences. Then what?

What shytty bowl are they going to play in in the middle of winter in Idaho or some shyt that their fans aren’t going to & nobody watches on TV,
versus playing in the Celebration Bowl in Atlanta which probably has the most HBCU grads out of any city in the country & it’s closer to Mississippi?

Are the students, alum and fans going to be excited to see them go against Tulsa or some shyt? Are white schools going to bring a crowd to HBCU stadiums? (The answer is hell no. They don’t even do it now and we play schools closer to us).

And who the hell wants to see HBCU bands go up against these white bands? an HBCU game is a whole different experience.

No arguments from me on this as I agree but the thread title says Prime wants to move upwards out of the SWAC and all I said was that Conference USA and the Sunbelt Conference were the logical and feasible next steps up. And if one of these schools truly wants a bigger conference and profile is one of them down to bite the bullet and go against tradition and not play a "southern bowl" with the pageantry, battle of the bands, celebrations, culture, history, etc.? Moving up is going to come at a price if a school like Jackson State is down to do this. It would suck to lose most of that initially but does it help the program ten years down the line and pave the way for more HBCU's to make a move? Does this help the city of Jackson's local economy improve and come out of its depressed state? Gotta weigh all options and on something like this. I've been to Jackson several times and JSU is in the heart of downtown. Its time for that town to rise up if you ask me.

 

[MostReal]

It would suck to lose most of that initially but does it help the program ten years down the line and pave the way for more HBCU's to make a move? Does this help the city of Jackson's local economy improve and come out of its depressed state? Gotta weigh all options and on something like this. I've been to Jackson several times and JSU is in the heart of downtown. Its time for that town to rise up if you ask me.

no is the answer to all of this.

 

[pete clemenza]

no is the answer to all of this.

So JSU as a bigger program wouldn't help the local economy of the city of Jackson?