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Notre Dame football will pay Tennessee State $1 million guarantee for 2023 season opener

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Broadcast on NBC

 

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Looks like Tennessee State will be the first HBCU with a hockey team

I been following this for the past two years. I’m happy they approved it..no telling how successful they will be or how long they will have the program, but at least it’s something new.

I been watching hockey for 20 something years I’ll support them to my fullest extent. Hopefully this will bring more black kids into the sport.

Report: Tennessee State to announce it will become first HBCU to add hockey program

Tennessee State, which has previously conducted a feasibility study into adding the sport, is expected to announce it will introduce a hockey program,

hbcusports.com

 

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Tennessee State will become the first HBCU to add ice hockey​

Left to Right: TSU Director of Athletics Dr. Mikki Allen, TSU President Dr. Glenda Glover, NHL VP of Hockey Development & Strategic Collaboration Kevin Westgarth, NHL Player Inclusion Coalition Co-Chair Anson Carter (Photo by College Hockey Inc.).​

June 28, 2023

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University announced Wednesday that it will become the first historically Black college and university to introduce ice hockey.The school plans to have a men’s team playing at the club level in 2024, with a goal of fielding Division I men’s and women’s teams “in the near future.”

The Tennessee State program has been created in partnership with the National Hockey League, the National Hockey League Players' Association and the Nashville Predators. The announcement was made hours before the start of the NHL draft, which is being held at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, the city where the university is located.

“Together, we celebrate the power of collaboration as we dismantle barriers, diversify the game, and propel hockey into a new era of inclusivity,” Tennessee State athletic director Mikki Allen said in a statement. “This partnership serves as a catalyst, driving change and ensuring that the game we love embraces the beauty of diversity."

Since 2017, the NHL and the players' union have sponsored feasibility studies for U.S. colleges and universities interested in exploring the addition of Division I men’s and women’s programs. The study for Tennessee State began in 2021.

Tennessee State's addition follows a trend of HBCUs adding sports outside their more traditional offerings of football, men's and women's basketball and men's and women's track and field. Earlier this year, The Associated Press contacted 46 Division I and D-II HBCUs and five conference offices about the trend. Twenty schools responded, saying they had added at least 42 NCAA championship or emerging sports since 2016, including at least 32 sports since 2020 alone.

In 2022-23, Fisk University became the first HBCU to offer women's gymnastics. Morgan State will become the only HBCU offering Division I men's wrestling this coming school year.

“Bringing ice hockey to Tennessee State University is a part of our continued commitment to provide our students with new opportunities and to broaden new interests in areas where they have traditionally had limited or no access,” university president Glenda Glover said

 

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CIAA welcomes Bluefield State back as full member

Bluefield State University returns to the CIAA after nearly 70 years. The West Virginia HBCU will begin competing this fall.

hbcugameday.com

Bluefield State returns to the CIAA..they were apart of the conference in the early days but left. Also, Bluefield state is an HBCU with a 80% white student body population. It was a founded as an HBCU but state legislatures took over & forced out the black students back in the day

 

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Some Classics already announced for this upcoming season


82nd annual Magic City Classic- Alabama State vs Alabama A&M (October 28th, Birmingham, AL) (goat HBCU classic eat a dikk @Schadenfreude )


Gulf Coast Classic- Alabama A&M vs Jackson State (October 7th, Mobile, AL)

Mobile | The Gulfcoast Challenge

Home of the annual Gulf Coast Challenge HBCU football

www.thegulfcoastchallenge.com

Orange Blossom Classic- FAMU vs Jackson State (Sep.3 Miami,FL)

Jackson State football, Florida A&M keeping same energy for the OBC

Will Jackson State and FAMU in the OBC still have that same energy?

hbcugameday.com

Labor Day Classic- Grambling vs Prairie View (Sep. 30, Dallas, TX)

MEAC/SWAC Challenge- Jackson State vs South Carolina State (Aug 26, Atlanta, GA)

Port City Classic- Alabama State vs Grambling (Nov 4th. Mobile, AL)

I’d add more later

 

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Some Classics already announced for this upcoming season


82nd annual Magic City Classic- Alabama State vs Alabama A&M (October 28th, Birmingham, AL) (goat HBCU classic eat a dikk @Schadenfreude )


Gulf Coast Classic- Alabama A&M vs Jackson State (October 7th, Mobile, AL)

Mobile | The Gulfcoast Challenge

Home of the annual Gulf Coast Challenge HBCU football

www.thegulfcoastchallenge.com

Orange Blossom Classic- FAMU vs Jackson State (Sep.3 Miami,FL)

Jackson State football, Florida A&M keeping same energy for the OBC

Will Jackson State and FAMU in the OBC still have that same energy?

hbcugameday.com

Labor Day Classic- Grambling vs Prairie View (Sep. 30, Dallas, TX)

MEAC/SWAC Challenge- Jackson State vs South Carolina State (Aug 26, Atlanta, GA)

Port City Classic- Alabama State vs Grambling (Nov 4th. Mobile, AL)

I’d add more later

fukk the Hornets, y'all got lucky last year, it's time to catch that annual ass whooping and right the ship this year

 

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Aye yo @staticshock you better not duck and hide from this smoke when your Hornets catch that annual ass whooping from the superior school that is AAMU

 

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Aye yo @staticshock you better not duck and hide from this smoke when your Hornets catch that annual ass whooping from the superior school that is AAMU

Imagine being scared of Alabama A&M
Y’all nikkas wouldn’t be in the SWAC if it wasn’t for us

Y’all the Vandy of the SWAC. Stick to engineering & academics

 

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Imagine being scared of Alabama A&M
Y’all nikkas wouldn’t be in the SWAC if it wasn’t for us

Y’all the Vandy of the SWAC. Stick to engineering & academics

Imagine being Alabama State and getting annual ass whoopings from a school of engineering students, when y'all supposedly got the better athletes

There's 3 things certain in life: death, taxes, and AAMU giving that annual ass whooping on Alabama State in the Magic City Classic

 

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Imagine being Alabama State and getting annual ass whoopings from a school of engineering students, when y'all supposedly got the better athletes

There's 3 things certain in life: death, taxes, and AAMU giving that annual ass whooping on Alabama State in the Magic City Classic

Only cause the school has been hiring some dumb ass coaches. Everything went back to normal last October


You going this year?

 

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Only cause the school has been hiring some dumb ass coaches. Everything went back to normal last October


You going this year?

Damn right I'm going unless something happens. Need to see that ass whooping AAMU is gonna put on the Hornets in person

Might even sit in the Hornet student section or among the Hornet fans because I want all the smoke

 

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They gotta name the stadium or field after him. He’s done so much for that team & school

 

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JSU vs SCSU on ABC