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What’s the long term SWAC Football goal. Is the HBCU Championship the ultimate goal. The SWAC has passed on the FCS Championship. In 10 years will HBCU fans still be satisfied with being the HBCU Champion?
For these Chicken Georges, there is no long term goal. They want to keep doing what they have done for 150+ years and hope and pray something changes.What’s the long term SWAC Football goal. Is the HBCU Championship the ultimate goal. The SWAC has passed on the FCS Championship. In 10 years will HBCU fans still be satisfied with being the HBCU Champion?
Where the REAL money is.FBS?
As I understand it, a FBS designation/elevation is among the considerations.FBS?
Bingo! FCS playoffs is aiming too low.FBS?
Repetition, something like those dead-horse Tennessee State threads that always pop up.I'm confused. I thought we were already working towards moving to FBS? Maybe it was wishful thinking, but I thought we had like a 10 year plan or something.
Hope y’all understand it costs a lot of money to move up to FBS. You can’t just Nickel and Dime your way to it. And I’m almost certain half the swac don’t even have the resources to pay their coaches like FBS schools. Who’s head coach is making 300k? That would be the bare minimum in FBS would literally be laughed at. Sam Houston state HC is making $500k and he is FCS HC in the Southland
Our long term goal should be either moving up to FBS in 10 years or figuring out a way that we can have yearly participation in both the Celebration Bowl and the playoffs.Which would mean moving up both the SWAC Championship and Bayou Classic or convincing the powers that be to move the start of the FCS playoffs back a couple of weeks.
That's not true. Georgia St couldn't win at a FCS level, but once they moved up, they caught fire. Same could be said about a few other schools like ULL and others.If you cant find a way to win at the fcs level then you dont even need to be talking about fbs. Only a handful would be able to afford that anyways. And realistically, as long as the swac gets big crowds for big games and makes a lil bread that seems to be all that matters. Being competitive outside of the conference never seems to be a priority. If I was an AD, i'd be looking at whatever A&T has been doing. National championship caliber track team, only hbcu i've seen actually beat a ranked non hbcu as of lately too. Donations are pouring in there. As of now, they SHOULD be the prototype.
Why people think winning at the FCS is the end all be all?That's not true. Georgia St couldn't win at a FCS level, but once they moved up, they caught fire. Same could be said about a few other schools like ULL and others.
What’s the long term SWAC Football goal. Is the HBCU Championship the ultimate goal. The SWAC has passed on the FCS Championship. In 10 years will HBCU fans still be satisfied with being the HBCU Champion?
- Take back control and marketing of our marquee/classic games.
It's pretty much impossible for just 1 HBCU to move up to FBS alone, but moving up as a conference can be done. There is strength in numbers. The problems that Bama St. and FAMU faced had a lot to do with not having the money to sustain themselves as an independent, and not to mention no FBS conferences were offering up memberships to them either. The entry fee to join as a new member would cripple their operating budgets and quickly reduce them to bottom-feeder status. Mounting debt would force them to still take money games against the same teams they would've been playing in FCS, but they're fans/alumni would demand that they keep their HBCU rivalries alive.Hope y’all understand it costs a lot of money to move up to FBS. You can’t just Nickel and Dime your way to it. And I’m almost certain half the swac don’t even have the resources to pay their coaches like FBS schools. Who’s head coach is making 300k? That would be the bare minimum in FBS would literally be laughed at. Sam Houston state HC is making $500k and he is FCS HC in the Southland
Why people think winning at the FCS is the end all be all?
If winning at the FCS was so good, why all them other schools left for FBS? Still can’t get a straight answer on that one.
The better question is, how many of them WEREN'T at LEAST competitive at the FCS level, and then moved up to be super successful? It doesn't happen. Georgia Southern, App State, Marshall, Coastal, etc all were competitive at the FCS level before moving up.