The CIAA doesn’t reign supreme because they have the best quality of black college basketball, or because it is the oldest black college athletic conference. The CIAA Basketball Tournament reigns supreme because of this image.
MEAC Fans Don't Care About Football
December 26, 2008 By 2 Comments
Here’s a list of the top 30 most-attended black college football games in 2008. In the 12 games with attendance of 30,000 or more, 11 of the contests featured at least one team from the SWAC. Not a big surprise, considering that the SWAC regularly is among the national leaders in college football attendance.
But here’s where it gets a little shaky. The MEAC’s highest-attended contest – and number two on the list – was the Florida Classic between Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman. After that, you don’t find another all-MEAC contest on the list until number 14, the Battle of the Bay between Hampton and Norfolk State.
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Give the Gift of Rumors and Opinion…A Subscription to HBCUSportsBlog.com
December 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I can’t say that I’m a big rumor monger or the hottest reporter in the streets, but I can say that I don’t curse in my posts, I degrade decisions and not people, and I love what I’m doing.
That’s why you should get HBCUSportsBlog.com delivered right to your email or RSS reader. Just in time for the holidays.
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And after that, we can all meet up in the forums for hot chocolate. And by hot chocolate, I mean that there might be an emoticon of a cup of hot chocolate.
A More Perfect Black College Union
December 23, 2008 By 1 Comment
Even if Hal Lamar’s column has some merit to it, and members of the SWAC and other conferences are discussing the possibility of a playoff system for black college football teams, there’s no way the NCAA is going to sanction it. If they can’t get a playoff going for power conference teams, and the FCS already has a playoff intact, why on Earth would they create one just for black colleges?
Better yet, why should they?
