HBCUs work to return to sports amid new coronavirus

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HBCUs work to return to sports, but face many financial challenges amid the coronavirus pandemic. “If we don’t have fans in the stands, from a revenue perspective it’s going to be extremely difficult for us to have a football season.' - NBCBLK

There are 107 HBCUs scattered across the country, and 21 of them play Division I sports, fielding teams in as few as 14 to as many as 18 sports each. Almost 6,000 students participate in sports at those institutions and thousands more play at the smaller HBCUs around the nation.

In the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, another conference with HBCUs that include Howard and Florida A&M, Commissioner Dennis Thomas oversees a committee looking at how sports can return at its schools. The SWAC has several such games on the schedule this year. Alcorn State, winner of the last two SWAC championships, is scheduled to open the season at Auburn on Sept. 5 with a team led by coach Fred McNair, brother of late Titans star Steve McNair, who also starred for the Braves.

“It’s premature at this time simply because I think around the end of May or first of June we will get some lucidity in terms of what the fall will look like,” he said. “But if you were to extrapolate the impact of those guaranteed games for FCS, it would have a significant financial impact.”

 

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NBCBLK Potus recently gave HBCUs the largest and longest financial support ever in history. They and many others have their hands out for free money while the average Jane in liberal lock downs suffer....

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