No HBCU players taken in the ‘24 NFL Draft

MikeyF said

My sons played baseball for HBCU schools here in Louisiana and their problem is that most of them are stuck in the "Past."

Only Jacksonville State and Alabama State are HBCU schools that I know of that have a diverse student body and are in Conference's with non HBCU Schools.

The SWAC should have joined with the Southland Conference years ago but these schools refuse to change and only want to live in the past...

Most kids of today regardless of race want to play at a school that offer the best competition and the best chance to succeed.

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I know for a fact that when several Southland schools briefly left the conference a couple years back. (3-4?) that the Southland approach multiple schools from the SWAC and they all said no. Southland went as far as to approach schools as far away as Florida and Ohio before Texas AM Commerce (Dallas) accepted and some of the teams that were leaving ended up staying.

It was a missed opportunity for SWAC teams in my opinion because winners of the Southland conference tournaments in baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer, men and women’s basketball all get automatic entry into the national tournaments. The chance to play in a regional or march madness is huge for exposure. Even if they get eliminated in the first round the Southland conference knows they get a representative in all of those tournaments every year.