((HT: ESPNU))
Last night, Mississippi Valley State was taking on Grambling in a rare Thursday night SWAC football game.
Obviously, someone forgot to reprogram the system not to go off for its nightly run- since there were teams playing at the time...
The Delta Devil got in some fun in the endzone
So, as a word of warning to all other football programs- be sure to reset your timers when you play on a funky night
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Friday, November 7, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
Jackson State's Bus Catches Fire On The Road
((HT: ABC3340))
The Jackson State University baseball team was travelling to Savannah for a series, but didn't make it because of this:
ABC 33/40 - Birmingham News, Weather, Sports
Thankfully, no one was injured. But, obviously, the team has to get equipment since it was all lost in the fire. The series with Savannah State was cancelled.
Bruce Thomas took some really engrossing pictures that can be also found on the 3340 website...
The Jackson State University baseball team was travelling to Savannah for a series, but didn't make it because of this:
ABC 33/40 - Birmingham News, Weather, Sports
Thankfully, no one was injured. But, obviously, the team has to get equipment since it was all lost in the fire. The series with Savannah State was cancelled.
Bruce Thomas took some really engrossing pictures that can be also found on the 3340 website...
Friday, February 28, 2014
Southern University's Ban Continues
((HT: WAFB-TV))
Southern University couldn't get it done in time...
The improvements in their academic data that the NCAA wanted to have in place were not done in time for the winter sports to keep from being banned in the postseason upcoming...
Southern's men's basketball team have clinched at least a tie for the SWAC regular-season title and the women are in second place, a half-game behind Texas Southern with a few games remaining in the regular season. The men's team found at the decision at practice yesterday.
The NCAA requires information in and around the Athlete Performance Program and APR. The information initially given to the NCAA was incomplete and a full review and revision was requested. As a result, the athletic program was given a post-season ban that would be revisited for the winter sports.
But it didn't work out...
Reaction on campus is, obviously, rough...
WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge, Louisiana News, Weather, Sports
The NCAA and the university issued a joint statement that said, in part:
“The NCAA has informed us of the enormity of the challenge before us, but we continue to work exhaustively in our efforts to comply with their requests, and share in their goals to provide the best institutional support for student athletes,” said William Broussard, athletics director at Southern. “As stated in the initial press conference to announce the post-season ineligibilities due to the ongoing data review, the NCAA has partnered extensively with our coordinated, campus-wide effort to report data from previous years accurately, perform and recommend corrections, and re-design policies and procedures for reporting accurate data in the future.”
NCAA staff members began working closely with Southern in March 2013 in an effort to help the school resolve its data issues. Staff also expedited internal deadlines and continues to work on a compressed timeline in all matters related to the school’s athletic teams.
“Our staff is committed to working with Southern on its data issues,” said Kevin Lennon, NCAA vice president for academic and membership affairs. “We hope the result of this collaboration is a fully-functioning, robust system of tracking retention and eligibility on Southern’s campus, to help student-athletes achieve academically and get the support they need to succeed.”
Southern University couldn't get it done in time...
The improvements in their academic data that the NCAA wanted to have in place were not done in time for the winter sports to keep from being banned in the postseason upcoming...
Southern's men's basketball team have clinched at least a tie for the SWAC regular-season title and the women are in second place, a half-game behind Texas Southern with a few games remaining in the regular season. The men's team found at the decision at practice yesterday.
The NCAA requires information in and around the Athlete Performance Program and APR. The information initially given to the NCAA was incomplete and a full review and revision was requested. As a result, the athletic program was given a post-season ban that would be revisited for the winter sports.
But it didn't work out...
Reaction on campus is, obviously, rough...
WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge, Louisiana News, Weather, Sports
The NCAA and the university issued a joint statement that said, in part:
“The NCAA has informed us of the enormity of the challenge before us, but we continue to work exhaustively in our efforts to comply with their requests, and share in their goals to provide the best institutional support for student athletes,” said William Broussard, athletics director at Southern. “As stated in the initial press conference to announce the post-season ineligibilities due to the ongoing data review, the NCAA has partnered extensively with our coordinated, campus-wide effort to report data from previous years accurately, perform and recommend corrections, and re-design policies and procedures for reporting accurate data in the future.”
NCAA staff members began working closely with Southern in March 2013 in an effort to help the school resolve its data issues. Staff also expedited internal deadlines and continues to work on a compressed timeline in all matters related to the school’s athletic teams.
“Our staff is committed to working with Southern on its data issues,” said Kevin Lennon, NCAA vice president for academic and membership affairs. “We hope the result of this collaboration is a fully-functioning, robust system of tracking retention and eligibility on Southern’s campus, to help student-athletes achieve academically and get the support they need to succeed.”
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Southern-Champion Baptist: The Day After
((HT: WAFB-TV))
First off, here's the highlights... if you're a Southern fan or something...
WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge, Louisiana News, Weather, Sports
For the record, the Jags broke the NCAA record that Seton Hall had when they scored the first 34 points against Kean College on November 19th, 1998.
The largest margin for victory is Long Island University beating Medgar Evers 179-62 on November 26th, 1997. The Southern win is now the third widest all-time margin...
Tre Lynch seemed less than apologetic in his quote in the Baton Rouge Advocate to Charles Salzer:
“If we come out and do what we do then leads can get like that,” Lynch said. “We don’t try and look at the score. We just play our game and, God bless us, if the lead gets like that then so be it.”
Gee, thanks...
“Defensively I felt like we played aggressive, we played hard and that’s a pretty good showing for us against a D-1 school,” CBC coach Eric Capaci told Salzer. “Offensively, we just did not show up. We missed our free throws, and missed a lot of easy lay ups.
“(Southern) is big and tall, but we still should have dropped some more buckets.”
Well, okay then... what, exactly, did you tell your son in the locker room since he was one of your bench players...???
Southern AD William J. Broussard was asked why they scheduled CBC. He talked about them playing four other D1 schools and that it's hard scheduling bigger schools when you're Southern.
"I assume it's a budget balancer for them as well," he said.
And...scene...
Oh, here's Salzer discussing what he saw with ESPN
Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com caught up with Southern head coach Roman Banks, who claimed he didn't know how out of control it got:
"You're worried about the psyche of the team even though we played well against some of those teams," Banks said. "You can lose your confidence. This game was all about us. I was surprised at how well we played defensively, and it led to a bunch of transition baskets."
First off, here's the highlights... if you're a Southern fan or something...
WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge, Louisiana News, Weather, Sports
For the record, the Jags broke the NCAA record that Seton Hall had when they scored the first 34 points against Kean College on November 19th, 1998.
The largest margin for victory is Long Island University beating Medgar Evers 179-62 on November 26th, 1997. The Southern win is now the third widest all-time margin...
Tre Lynch seemed less than apologetic in his quote in the Baton Rouge Advocate to Charles Salzer:
“If we come out and do what we do then leads can get like that,” Lynch said. “We don’t try and look at the score. We just play our game and, God bless us, if the lead gets like that then so be it.”
Gee, thanks...
“Defensively I felt like we played aggressive, we played hard and that’s a pretty good showing for us against a D-1 school,” CBC coach Eric Capaci told Salzer. “Offensively, we just did not show up. We missed our free throws, and missed a lot of easy lay ups.
“(Southern) is big and tall, but we still should have dropped some more buckets.”
Well, okay then... what, exactly, did you tell your son in the locker room since he was one of your bench players...???
Southern AD William J. Broussard was asked why they scheduled CBC. He talked about them playing four other D1 schools and that it's hard scheduling bigger schools when you're Southern.
"I assume it's a budget balancer for them as well," he said.
And...scene...
Oh, here's Salzer discussing what he saw with ESPN
Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com caught up with Southern head coach Roman Banks, who claimed he didn't know how out of control it got:
"You're worried about the psyche of the team even though we played well against some of those teams," Banks said. "You can lose your confidence. This game was all about us. I was surprised at how well we played defensively, and it led to a bunch of transition baskets."
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Has Grambling Hit Rock Bottom...??? No--UPDATED
((HT: KTBS-TV Shreveport))
The once proud organization is 0-7 this year and haven't won a game since the 2011 SWAC title game...
They lost 48-0 to Alcorn last week and, now, according to the Shreveport Times, players have walked out of an administrative meeting on Tuesday and skipping a team practice this afternoon.
Here's FOSG Paul Crane...
KTBS.com - Shreveport, LA News, Weather and Sports
From the Matt Vines article:
The source said the teams’ frustrations have been boiling over a period time. Those frustrations include what’s considered as general disrespect from administration, not receiving all meals on road trips, taking a bus to distant locations like Kansas City and Indianapolis and the poor state of facilities like the weight room.
Players attended morning weight training until the session abruptly ended after one player was kicked out after voicing his opinion in Tuesday’s meeting. All players left the weight training session.
Vines' source called the walk-out a mutiny...
Updated Thursday afternoon: The Shreveport Times reports interim coach George Ragsdale has been let go and Defensive coordinator Dennis Winston would finish out the season as coach. For now. Also, the team did not practice on Thursday, but intends to play Saturday's game vs. Jackson State.
The once proud organization is 0-7 this year and haven't won a game since the 2011 SWAC title game...
They lost 48-0 to Alcorn last week and, now, according to the Shreveport Times, players have walked out of an administrative meeting on Tuesday and skipping a team practice this afternoon.
Here's FOSG Paul Crane...
KTBS.com - Shreveport, LA News, Weather and Sports
From the Matt Vines article:
The source said the teams’ frustrations have been boiling over a period time. Those frustrations include what’s considered as general disrespect from administration, not receiving all meals on road trips, taking a bus to distant locations like Kansas City and Indianapolis and the poor state of facilities like the weight room.
Players attended morning weight training until the session abruptly ended after one player was kicked out after voicing his opinion in Tuesday’s meeting. All players left the weight training session.
Vines' source called the walk-out a mutiny...
Updated Thursday afternoon: The Shreveport Times reports interim coach George Ragsdale has been let go and Defensive coordinator Dennis Winston would finish out the season as coach. For now. Also, the team did not practice on Thursday, but intends to play Saturday's game vs. Jackson State.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Alcorn Hires First "Non-Black" Head Coach
((HT: WLBT-TV Jackson))
Alcorn State hired Jay Hopson as its football coach, making the former Memphis defensive coordinator the first "non-black" head coach in the history of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
Hopson was hired Monday and the news conference was held on the lawn of school president M. Christopher Brown II. Hopson replaces Melvin Spears who was fired in February after going 2-8 in his only season.
"I don't see black or white, we're all purple and gold," Hopson told reporters. Hopson said he had withdrawn his name from consideration for the job but Brown convinced him to reconsider.
"Today's historical appointment will require us to walk hand in hand to disrupt naysayers wedded to a racist past," Brown said at the presser.
Here's the presser and coverage from WLBT...
Alcorn State hired Jay Hopson as its football coach, making the former Memphis defensive coordinator the first "non-black" head coach in the history of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
Hopson was hired Monday and the news conference was held on the lawn of school president M. Christopher Brown II. Hopson replaces Melvin Spears who was fired in February after going 2-8 in his only season.
"I don't see black or white, we're all purple and gold," Hopson told reporters. Hopson said he had withdrawn his name from consideration for the job but Brown convinced him to reconsider.
"Today's historical appointment will require us to walk hand in hand to disrupt naysayers wedded to a racist past," Brown said at the presser.
Here's the presser and coverage from WLBT...
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Suspensions Handed Down After Southern-Pine Bluff Brawl
((HT: WBRZ-TV Baton Rouge))
SWAC officials handed out dozens of suspensions to players involved in a brawl after Southern University's game against the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff last weekend.
Conference officials recommended more than 40 players from both schools for suspensions of at least one game.
Southern University officials say 16 of their players were affected, and three of them would be suspended for two games...
"We agree with the conference office's decision," said Southern Chancellor James L. Llorens. "It is in line with the disciplinary action the university was considering. Coach Stump Mitchell may also impose additional sanctions of his own."
Here's the early returns from Baton Rouge
SWAC officials handed out dozens of suspensions to players involved in a brawl after Southern University's game against the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff last weekend.
Conference officials recommended more than 40 players from both schools for suspensions of at least one game.
Southern University officials say 16 of their players were affected, and three of them would be suspended for two games...
"We agree with the conference office's decision," said Southern Chancellor James L. Llorens. "It is in line with the disciplinary action the university was considering. Coach Stump Mitchell may also impose additional sanctions of his own."
Here's the early returns from Baton Rouge
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