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RE: Bethune-Cookman officials meeting to discuss move to the SWAC
(06-19-2020 12:15 AM)Stugray2 Wrote:  
(06-18-2020 10:49 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  TSU said no again, eh?

TSU wasn't even asked.

The SWAC is done for now. B-C rumor is just that. Would not read a thing into it, especially when Facebook is the source.

The rumor-starter is the creator of the FB page. He says B-C’s BOT’s voted yesterday to move to SWAC and to stay tuned. Guessing he has a track record because everyone’s automatically believing him.
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It remains to be seen if the SWAC reciprocates B-C’s overtures. If they do then look out MEAC.
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(06-18-2020 10:38 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Maybe the SWAC should just cherry-pick the MEAC and become an HBCU super conference.

What MEAC school would be left after Bethune-Cookman that would make any economic & geographic sense for the SWAC to pick up?
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(06-18-2020 09:37 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  This would be surprising. FAMU lifts the conference in fan support/academics and barely fits the footprint. Bethune-Cookman is limping financially and 4 hours the wrong direction of FAMU. SWAC would be throwing B-C a buoy with an invite.

Plus BCU would be the only private school in the conference. The addition of BCU does not help travel cost. It is an 8 hour drive from Alabama State to BCU.
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(06-19-2020 05:56 AM)schmolik Wrote:  
(06-18-2020 10:17 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  Why would the SWAC want Bethune Cookman?

Gets them to the beach? Gets them into the Orlando/Daytona Beach TV market?

It would lock the MEAC out of Florida and take both sides of a major classic rivalry game in-house to the SWAC.
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RE: Bethune-Cookman officials meeting to discuss move to the SWAC
(06-19-2020 09:03 AM)DCAbloob Wrote:  
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(06-18-2020 10:17 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  Why would the SWAC want Bethune Cookman?

Gets them to the beach? Gets them into the Orlando/Daytona Beach TV market?

It would lock the MEAC out of Florida and take both sides of a major classic rivalry game in-house to the SWAC.

There’s no real benefit for the SWAC or it’s current members to keep taking MEAC members. Who are they going to play in the Celebration Bowl? BC really adds nothing to the SWAC. Markets don’t matter in the small conferences anymore. Adding Daytona Beach won’t increase their TV deal any.
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RE: Bethune-Cookman officials meeting to discuss move to the SWAC
(06-19-2020 09:17 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  
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(06-19-2020 05:56 AM)schmolik Wrote:  
(06-18-2020 10:17 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  Why would the SWAC want Bethune Cookman?

Gets them to the beach? Gets them into the Orlando/Daytona Beach TV market?

It would lock the MEAC out of Florida and take both sides of a major classic rivalry game in-house to the SWAC.

There’s no real benefit for the SWAC or it’s current members to keep taking MEAC members. Who are they going to play in the Celebration Bowl? BC really adds nothing to the SWAC. Markets don’t matter in the small conferences anymore. Adding Daytona Beach won’t increase their TV deal any.

The Celebration Bowl doesn’t matter here. The ESPN contract for that expires after this year and the MEAC likely already doesn’t have enough juice left with North Carolina A&T and Florida A&M gone to justify its continuance anyway.

What would benefit the SWAC television wise is locking up HBCU classic games that generate viewer and television interest in-house. Bringing in Bethune-Cookman would give the SWAC full control of the Florida Classic’s TV rights.
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RE: Bethune-Cookman officials meeting to discuss move to the SWAC
(06-19-2020 09:25 AM)DCAbloob Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 09:17 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 09:03 AM)DCAbloob Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 05:56 AM)schmolik Wrote:  
(06-18-2020 10:17 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  Why would the SWAC want Bethune Cookman?

Gets them to the beach? Gets them into the Orlando/Daytona Beach TV market?

It would lock the MEAC out of Florida and take both sides of a major classic rivalry game in-house to the SWAC.

There’s no real benefit for the SWAC or it’s current members to keep taking MEAC members. Who are they going to play in the Celebration Bowl? BC really adds nothing to the SWAC. Markets don’t matter in the small conferences anymore. Adding Daytona Beach won’t increase their TV deal any.

The Celebration Bowl doesn’t matter here. The ESPN contract for that expires after this year and the MEAC likely already doesn’t have enough juice left with North Carolina A&T and Florida A&M gone to justify its continuance anyway.

What would benefit the SWAC television wise is locking up HBCU classic games that generate viewer and television interest in-house. Bringing in Bethune-Cookman would give the SWAC full control of the Florida Classic’s TV rights.

Given the current climate, don’t you think re-newing the Celebration Bowl is a good idea?

Can you list some tv ratings for BCU games to justify that BCU generates television interest?
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RE: Bethune-Cookman officials meeting to discuss move to the SWAC
(06-19-2020 09:42 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  
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(06-19-2020 09:17 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 09:03 AM)DCAbloob Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 05:56 AM)schmolik Wrote:  Gets them to the beach? Gets them into the Orlando/Daytona Beach TV market?

It would lock the MEAC out of Florida and take both sides of a major classic rivalry game in-house to the SWAC.

There’s no real benefit for the SWAC or it’s current members to keep taking MEAC members. Who are they going to play in the Celebration Bowl? BC really adds nothing to the SWAC. Markets don’t matter in the small conferences anymore. Adding Daytona Beach won’t increase their TV deal any.

The Celebration Bowl doesn’t matter here. The ESPN contract for that expires after this year and the MEAC likely already doesn’t have enough juice left with North Carolina A&T and Florida A&M gone to justify its continuance anyway.

What would benefit the SWAC television wise is locking up HBCU classic games that generate viewer and television interest in-house. Bringing in Bethune-Cookman would give the SWAC full control of the Florida Classic’s TV rights.

Given the current climate, don’t you think re-newing the Celebration Bowl is a good idea?

Can you list some tv ratings for BCU games to justify that BCU generates television interest?

Celebration Bowl wouldn't necessarily have to be SWAC vs. MEAC. It could be the two best available HBCUs regardless of conference (or even classification; if an 11-0 Morehouse or Virginia State were available to play, they'd at least be an option).
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They might just make the Celebration Bowl the SWAC Championship at this point.
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(06-19-2020 07:59 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  It remains to be seen if the SWAC reciprocates B-C’s overtures. If they do then look out MEAC.

It makes sense for Bethune-Cookman.
MEAC is basically a Tidewater conference now. Delaware, 3 in Maryland, 1 in DC, 1 on the Virginia Coast, 1 in mid-North Carolina along with B-C and SC St.

Whether it makes sense for SWAC remains to be seen.
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(06-19-2020 05:56 AM)schmolik Wrote:  
(06-18-2020 10:17 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  Why would the SWAC want Bethune Cookman?

Gets them to the beach? Gets them into the Orlando/Daytona Beach TV market?

Do enough people watch FCS games on tv for that to matter? Besides, they’re already sort of in the Orlando market now. FAMU’s law school is in Orlando.
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Maybe the Celebration Bowl can become a SWAC Champ vs At-Large affair. Bring in the best available HBCU to face them.
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(06-19-2020 11:18 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Maybe the Celebration Bowl can become a SWAC Champ vs At-Large affair. Bring in the best available HBCU to face them.

Yes, but if the MEAC dissolved and Howard played football in the CAA, that conference participates in the playoffs. How would the CAA handle a conference winning Howard team skipping the playoffs to play in the Celebration Bowl?
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(06-19-2020 10:04 AM)Cyniclone Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 09:42 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 09:25 AM)DCAbloob Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 09:17 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 09:03 AM)DCAbloob Wrote:  It would lock the MEAC out of Florida and take both sides of a major classic rivalry game in-house to the SWAC.

There’s no real benefit for the SWAC or it’s current members to keep taking MEAC members. Who are they going to play in the Celebration Bowl? BC really adds nothing to the SWAC. Markets don’t matter in the small conferences anymore. Adding Daytona Beach won’t increase their TV deal any.

The Celebration Bowl doesn’t matter here. The ESPN contract for that expires after this year and the MEAC likely already doesn’t have enough juice left with North Carolina A&T and Florida A&M gone to justify its continuance anyway.

What would benefit the SWAC television wise is locking up HBCU classic games that generate viewer and television interest in-house. Bringing in Bethune-Cookman would give the SWAC full control of the Florida Classic’s TV rights.

Given the current climate, don’t you think re-newing the Celebration Bowl is a good idea?

Can you list some tv ratings for BCU games to justify that BCU generates television interest?

Celebration Bowl wouldn't necessarily have to be SWAC vs. MEAC. It could be the two best available HBCUs regardless of conference (or even classification; if an 11-0 Morehouse or Virginia State were available to play, they'd at least be an option).

If Morehouse or Virginia State were 11-0, they'd be high regional seeds and hosting D2 playoff games so they wouldn't be available for the bowl game. Since the CIAA and SIAC are in the same football region, the two schools would potentially face each other in the second or third round.
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Bethune-Cookman do have some good football teams that have actually beat a FBS team scalp on their record. They are better than the Alabama schools recently. Only NC Central and SC State are the only above average football schools in MEAC.

The only western HBCU schools left in D2.
Lane
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Lincoln, Mo.
Miles
Tuskegee
The rest are NAIA and 1 4 year in the NJCAA right now.
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Is there a possibility that the SWAC is trying to strangle the MEAC so that they are the premier HBCU conference and could dump the Celebration Bowl for participating in the FCS playoffs?
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(06-19-2020 11:39 AM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  Is there a possibility that the SWAC is trying to strangle the MEAC so that they are the premier HBCU conference and could dump the Celebration Bowl for participating in the FCS playoffs?

So long as the process involves MEAC schools asking SWAC if they can move over, it's hard for it to be some Conference-Realignment-RISK strategy by the SWAC.

Well, that is so long as we assume that mind-control technologies are not being employed, but I am happy to stipulate that assumption.
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(06-19-2020 12:21 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 11:39 AM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  Is there a possibility that the SWAC is trying to strangle the MEAC so that they are the premier HBCU conference and could dump the Celebration Bowl for participating in the FCS playoffs?

So long as the process involves MEAC schools asking SWAC if they can move over, it's hard for it to be some Conference-Realignment-RISK strategy by the SWAC.

Well, that is so long as we assume that mind-control technologies are not being employed, but I am happy to stipulate that assumption.

Even if FAMU and perhaps BCU are approaching the SWAC, that doesn't mean the SWAC is just taking them for no reason. Whether the SWAC was proactively engaged doesn't mean there may not be a strategy for choosing to accept FAMU.
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(06-19-2020 11:24 AM)AZcats Wrote:  
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(06-19-2020 09:42 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 09:25 AM)DCAbloob Wrote:  
(06-19-2020 09:17 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  There’s no real benefit for the SWAC or it’s current members to keep taking MEAC members. Who are they going to play in the Celebration Bowl? BC really adds nothing to the SWAC. Markets don’t matter in the small conferences anymore. Adding Daytona Beach won’t increase their TV deal any.

The Celebration Bowl doesn’t matter here. The ESPN contract for that expires after this year and the MEAC likely already doesn’t have enough juice left with North Carolina A&T and Florida A&M gone to justify its continuance anyway.

What would benefit the SWAC television wise is locking up HBCU classic games that generate viewer and television interest in-house. Bringing in Bethune-Cookman would give the SWAC full control of the Florida Classic’s TV rights.

Given the current climate, don’t you think re-newing the Celebration Bowl is a good idea?

Can you list some tv ratings for BCU games to justify that BCU generates television interest?

Celebration Bowl wouldn't necessarily have to be SWAC vs. MEAC. It could be the two best available HBCUs regardless of conference (or even classification; if an 11-0 Morehouse or Virginia State were available to play, they'd at least be an option).

If Morehouse or Virginia State were 11-0, they'd be high regional seeds and hosting D2 playoff games so they wouldn't be available for the bowl game. Since the CIAA and SIAC are in the same football region, the two schools would potentially face each other in the second or third round.

What's the policy for turning down an D2 playoff bid? Would the conference be able to send their second-place team if a SIAC or CIAA school went to the Celebration Bowl? I know that the MEAC and SWAC turned down auto bids but the MEAC sent schools to the FCS playoffs at at-large teams; does that carry to D2?

If nothing else, the CIAA and SIAC could revive the Pioneer Bowl and send top non-Celebration Bowl champions there. You could even gin up a third bowl, guarantee every HBCU D1 and D2 conference has at least one representative, and make a long weekend of it.
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