What's up people? I go to Alabama State U, and I think the SWAC conference is liver than the MEAC. Tell me what yall think. Holla at ya boy 205 representin!
Has it not occured to you that we're also competing with 50 million other white schools for a title? Our students simply don't get the same exposue that SWAC schools get. Now like I said before, if you really wanted to test ya gansta, y'all would come on over and play with the rest of us instead of keeping to yourselves.
ASU is going to **** Howard in Detroit, I hope yall Bison are lining up for the slaughtering MEAC meat for everybody. We goin show yall how real football is in the south. Yea the SWAC will one up on the weac meac!
ALABAMA STATE U!!
Date: 08/11/2004 Time: 9 a.m.
Leila Barlow Theater. Speaker TBA. For more information, call (334) 229-4968.
Date: 08/12/2004 Time: 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, August 12, 2004 in room 536 of the University Library and Learning Resources Center.
Date: 08/13/2004 Time: 10:00 a.m.
Friday, August 13, 2004 in room 536 of the University Library and Learning Resources Center.
Date: 08/16/2004 Time:
• The Office of Student Activities is conducting its annual campus student organization registration. The application for registration can be downloaded from the ASU Web site at www.alasu.edu. For more information, call (334) 229-4888.
Date: 08/16/2004 Time: 8 a.m.
Ends August 17. Joe L. Reed Acadome. For more information, call (334) 229-4643.
Date: 08/18/2004 Time:
Date: 08/08/2004 Time: 10 a.m.
Ends August 13. For freshmen, transfer students and parents on Aug. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Joe L. Reed Acadome. Opening Convocation will be held at 2 p.m. Orientation activities will continue daily at 8 a.m. on Aug. 9-13. For more information, call (334) 229-4382.
MEAC!!!!!First of all, you hear nothing about the SWAC peeps b/c there is NOTHING to repp or get hyped ova, in the MEAC, everying is hyped and crankin real nicely....DC, MD, VA, FL, NC, DE...i mean come on now...who can really compete with the MEAC on a serious levelif there was a game/meet or what have you against the best in the MEAC again the best in the SWAC, i seriously don't think SWAC would be ready to step there game up that much....all you hear about is MEAC this and MEAC that....when do you eva hear anything about SWAC....NEVA!!!even during the track meets, at the PG CLASSICS or the HBCU classics, you see ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL MEAC SCHOOLS, i know there is more then just MEAC in the HBCU, but being that MEAC is the best, there is no need for SWAC **** to show up and get embarrassed...its pointless to even try to compare the two confrences b/c we all know the truth...MEAC is the LIVEST AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE LIVEST, TIL DA END OF TIMEDELAWARESTATEUNIVERSITYHoRNeT TeRRiToRy!!
Aight, everyone knows that tha SWAC is WACK
nah, just playin :lol:
Coming from a person who didn't kno where tha hell she was goin to school at until Mid June, I can't really talk too much about tha SWAC since I almost went to a SWAC school...
BUT for those who wanna doubt tha MEAC, we are home to the number one black college football team (and the highest ranked black football team who just defeated a TOP 25 team last week) so yes, tha SWAC has usually held it down in tha past...but it's 2004 now, and it's all about that MEAC
SWAC, your time is up!
THE SWAC IS HELLA BETTA THAT THE MEAC OR HOWEVA U PUT IT ALABAMA STATE IS WINNING THE SWAC THIS YEAR!!!!!!....THE SWAC HAS THE LIVEST PPL IN IT AND THE BEST BANDS!!!!!!!
For Immediate Release September 30, 2004
ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION TO CREATE
MEAC/SWAC CHALLENGE COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME
Annual Nationally Televised Matchup To Begin With South Carolina St. vs. Alabama St. Sept. 3, 2005 in Birmingham; Event Week To Include Diversity Job Fair
ESPN Regional Television (ERT), a subsidiary of ESPN, Inc., and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), two prominent HBCU (Historically Black College/University) leagues, have reached a multi-year agreement to create the MEAC/SWAC Challenge. The ERT owned-and-operated annual college football game will be played the Saturday of Labor Day weekend beginning in 2005, it was announced by Chuck Gerber, executive vice president, ESPN Regional Television, Dennis Thomas, MEAC commissioner and Robert Vowels, SWAC commissioner. The week of the game will also include ancillary events, highlighted by an annual diversity job fair.
Each year, the game will pit a MEAC team against a SWAC member at a neutral site located within the footprint of one of the conferences. The inaugural matchup, featuring South Carolina State vs. Alabama State, will be played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala. Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005 and will be televised by either ESPN or ESPN2. Teams and sites for future games will be determined on an annual basis.
In addition to the game, the week of the MEAC/SWAC Challenge will feature a series of related events, beginning on the Thursday before the game. Planned activities for this year’s event from September 1 to September 3 include (details and additional activities are currently being finalized):
A two-day, ESPN-led job fair (Friday and Saturday) targeting recent graduates and alumni of MEAC and SWAC institutions as well as other diverse candidates.
A welcome reception for VIPs at the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham on Thursday
A kickoff luncheon (public tickets will be available) on Friday at the Sheraton Birmingham, the official host hotel of the 2005 MEAC/SWAC Challenge
A pep rally for fans and a showcase of school bands
ESPN Regional Television will be responsible for the MEAC/SWAC Challenge organization, operation, sponsorship, marketing efforts and more. Additional details, including sponsorship and ticket sales are still being finalized.
“This event will bring national attention to tradition-rich football programs as well as support the important objective of fostering diversity,” said Gerber. “We continuously search for ways to expand our event models to further involve communities and fans and the MEAC/SWAC Challenge will provide a great foundation to build upon for future events.”
Thomas added, "I am very pleased with our association with ESPN and their involvement in promoting this event. I say event to emphasize that this is more than a football game. ESPN has committed to promote other worthwhile ancillary events to be associated with the actual game. This will be a unique opportunity for the MEAC and the SWAC to market and gain additional visibility for each conference and our member institutions."
Vowels said, “We are extremely pleased that ESPN has agreed to support and televise this MEAC/SWAC Football Challenge. This is not only great for our schools and conferences, but also for the nation’s football fans. We know that the television audience will not only enjoy the excitement of the action, but the pageantry of our schools’ games.”
ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION
ESPN Regional Television (ERT) is the nation’s largest syndicator of collegiate sports programming and produces more than 740 sporting events annually, accounting for more than 2,000 live and/or original hours of programming. In addition to event ownership, ERT produces events for national, regional and local networks, serves as the syndication rightsholder for college conferences (e.g. – Big Ten, BIG EAST, Big 12, Conference USA, Mid-American, WAC and Mountain West) and marketing rightsholder for select schools (TCU, Kansas, Oregon, UNLV, Iowa State, UAB and South Florida).
ESPN Regional Television markets and/or owns several sporting events. Examples include the Sheraton Hawai‘i Bowl, Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl, PlainsCapital Fort Worth Bowl, The Home Depot College Football Awards, ACC-Big Ten Challenge, the Spartan Clash, the Touchtone Energy All-College Classic, the Las Vegas Showdown and more.
ESPN, INC. AND COLLEGE SPORTS
ESPN and ESPN2 are the year-round leaders in college sports coverage with more than 350 basketball games and 140 football games annually (including 20 bowl games). In addition, ESPN is in the midst of an 11-year agreement (through 2012-13) to televise numerous NCAA Championships, including marquee events in each of the three collegiate seasons. Examples include Men’s and Women’s College Cup (soccer) and Division I-AA Football in the fall; the entire Women’s Basketball Championship and the Men’s Frozen Four (Hockey) in the winter; and the Men’s and Women’s College World Series in the spring.
In addition to ESPN Regional Television’s extensive coverage of college sports, ESPN GamePlan, ESPN FULL COURT and ESPN College Grand Slam provide hundreds of additional games as a pay-per-view option for college football, basketball and baseball fans, respectively. Also, college athletics are featured prominently on ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Classic, ESPN Radio, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes, ESPNEWS and ESPN SportsTicker.
ESPNU
ESPNU, a multi-media college sports initiative across ESPN’s family of services, will include a new 24-hour television network, content and components for ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Mobile (wireless), ESPN Radio, ESPN Interactive, ESPN Broadband, merchandising and more. ESPNU will debut in March 2005.
MEAC
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), an NCAA Division I conference, is in its 35th year of operation, dating back to 1970. Located in North Carolina in the heart of downtown Greensboro, the MEAC is made up of 11 outstanding, historically black institutions across the Atlantic Coastline: Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, Fla.); Coppin State University (Baltimore, Md.); Delaware State University (Dover, Del.); Florida A&M University (Tallahassee, Fla.); Hampton University (Hampton,Va.); Howard University (Washington, D.C.); University of Maryland-Eastern Shore (Princess Anne, Md.); Morgan State University (Baltimore, Md.); Norfolk State University (Norfolk, Va.); North Carolina A&T State University (Greensboro, N.C.); and South Carolina State University (Orangeburg, S.C.).
SWAC
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), founded in 1920, consists of 10 historically black collegiate institutions spanning the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Present member institutions are: Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Alcorn State (Miss.), Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Grambling State (La.), Jackson State (Miss.), Mississippi Valley State, Prairie View A&M (Texas), Southern University and A&M College (La.) and Texas Southern. Competing on the NCAA Division I level (I-AA in football), Southwestern Athletic Conference football has been the biggest draw on the Division I-AA level, leading the nation in average home attendance for 17 of the 19 years that the I-AA division has been in existence.
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ESPN Contact: Michael Humes at 860-766-2233; michael.c.humes@espn.com
MEAC Contact: Michelle Jinks at 336-275-2645; jinksm@themeac.com
SWAC Contact: Wallace Dooley at (205) 251-7573 X111; w.dooley@swac.org
