mtgrizfankb said:seems a little racist doesn't it. A celebration game for the national champion of black football? really. Why do we need to divide historical black universities from diverse universities? Maybe they should have a NCAA black basketball tournament. Nothing like exploiting racial history for money!
mtgrizfankb said:seems a little racist doesn't it. A celebration game for the national champion of black football? really. Why do we need to divide historical black universities from diverse universities? Maybe they should have a NCAA black basketball tournament. Nothing like exploiting racial history for money!
GRIZFAN20 said:Seems like a smart move on their end, especially when the article mentions the potential $$ that comes the championship game. Also puts a more deserving team from other conference in the playoffs, so may be a win-win from both sides.
You aren't suggesting racist policies are OK if they serve an economic purpose? Nope, didn't think so because there were a large group of people who thought that way a couple of hundred years ago and when the war was lost that idea died completely. Right?bgbigdog said:GRIZFAN20 said:Seems like a smart move on their end, especially when the article mentions the potential $$ that comes the championship game. Also puts a more deserving team from other conference in the playoffs, so may be a win-win from both sides.
There may also be a financial preservation situation here. I think some of these schools are struggling to pay for athletics in general and a playoff run may be unmanagable for many of them. So with this agreement they can still participate in something that makes it managable from the financial side and an incentive for the teams, without just throwing in the towel @ some point.
Kenn Rashad said:December 30, 2014. HBCU Sports news release.
The presidents of the MEAC and SWAC member schools have agreed to play in a postseason football bowl game in 2015, according to Morgan State athletics director Floyd Kerr.
Kerr made a Dec. 20 call-in appearance to The Carlos Brown Show on WUBR-910 (Baton Rouge, La.) where he confirmed rumors that the MEAC would forego its automatic bid to the NCAA FCS playoffs to have its conference champion compete against the SWAC’s champion.
It’s a game, created by ESPN, Kerr says will pay each conference $1 million.
“The presidents of each league have decided that, yes, this is going to happen,” Kerr said, “ESPN is the driving force behind it and it’s been vetted quite well.
Kerr said the MEAC delegates, presidents and commissioner Dennis Thomas spent the past year pondering the impact associated with no longer participating in the playoffs, including the perception of being separated from “the mainstream as African-Americans and black colleges” versus the need for the conference to “take charge” of its own financial destiny.
Citing a “climate of change” within in NCAA’s structure and noting that all members of the conference are LRIs (limited resource institutions), Kerr indicated the primary obligation for the conference was to be able to adequately fund its athletic programs, which so far, has been a challenge.
“All of us operate at deficits and we have to solve these financial issues because our institutions are not funding us at the levels that we can remain competitive,” Kerr said. “We have to figure out ways to better fund our programs without taxing the students at our institutions or the general funds of our institutions, which are already under tremendous fire to increase enrollments, grow revenue [and] graduate students.”
According to Kerr, the MEAC/SWAC Challenge, a football game (also owned by ESPN) played annually at the beginning of the season, featuring a team from each conference, will continue as well.
Kerr said an official announcement on the new bowl game should come out “pretty soon.”
Grisly Fan said:You aren't suggesting racist policies are OK if they serve an economic purpose? Nope, didn't think so because there were a large group of people who thought that way a couple of hundred years ago and when the war was lost that idea died completely. Right?bgbigdog said:GRIZFAN20 said:Seems like a smart move on their end, especially when the article mentions the potential $$ that comes the championship game. Also puts a more deserving team from other conference in the playoffs, so may be a win-win from both sides.
There may also be a financial preservation situation here. I think some of these schools are struggling to pay for athletics in general and a playoff run may be unmanagable for many of them. So with this agreement they can still participate in something that makes it managable from the financial side and an incentive for the teams, without just throwing in the towel @ some point.
As you might guess I wasn't actually criticizing your statements. The irony of a racial double-standard gets really thick because money makes it acceptable. Imagine a conference consisting of "historically white colleges" playing each other to generate more revenue?bgbigdog said:Grisly Fan said:You aren't suggesting racist policies are OK if they serve an economic purpose? Nope, didn't think so because there were a large group of people who thought that way a couple of hundred years ago and when the war was lost that idea died completely. Right?bgbigdog said:GRIZFAN20 said:Seems like a smart move on their end, especially when the article mentions the potential $$ that comes the championship game. Also puts a more deserving team from other conference in the playoffs, so may be a win-win from both sides.
There may also be a financial preservation situation here. I think some of these schools are struggling to pay for athletics in general and a playoff run may be unmanagable for many of them. So with this agreement they can still participate in something that makes it managable from the financial side and an incentive for the teams, without just throwing in the towel @ some point.
Racism in any context is wrong. If you read the article, this is about money. They can spin it in whatever way they choose, and whether they chose the right words in this case can be debated. UM is facing issues right now around shrinking revenues that may have an impact on decisions made about athletics. Fact of life in many places.
Grisly Fan said:Imagine a conference consisting of "historically white colleges" playing each other to generate more revenue?
Potomac Griz said:Grisly Fan said:Imagine a conference consisting of "historically white colleges" playing each other to generate more revenue?
You mean like every other college was basically? FFS man, look at the years the Historically Black Colleges were created. Even almost all of the newest ones were created when Jim Crow laws were still all over the place in the south.
Besides, as I said earlier the Historically Black Colleges don't exclude people who aren't black. Some of them aren't even majority black. I'll never understand why people seem to think just because it's a Historically black college it means it's black only.
Here is a photo of West Virginia State's volleyball team to drive home my point that these schools are not excluding anyone. West Virginia State is a Historically Black College.
This whole argument that somehow a couple minor conferences that can't compete in the FCS playoffs playing in a bowl instead is racist is ridiculous.