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Only chance they have is to build the dome for football/basketball and the downtown baseball stadium.

So basically no chance.
 
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MaroonNation

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JSU would have to prove they can be accountable and manage their own affairs with minimal State oversight. In the past the people who ran it were robbing it blind.
 
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MaroonNation

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And become something other than a diploma mill. No conference would go after JSU for many reasons but the two biggest would be academics and notoriously cheap alumni who give nothing back to the university. It would be literally :noracist: nothing more than a welfare child in anyone else's conference. As someone pointed out in the comments section in the article, and I paraphrase, Jackson State is in the best place for Jackson State and that is the SWAC.
 
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patdog

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No. They really couldn't. If JSU tried to move to I-A, it would be a disaster. They'd lose all their traditional rivals and wouldn't be able to replace them. Their fanbase would not grow, like most schools' do when they move to I-A. And they'd struggle to win 2 games a year in the Sunbelt. A much better step for them would be for the bigger schools in the SWAC and MEAC to merge into one conference and send the champion to the I-AA playoffs.
 
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In the looong run (30-40yrs) it would absolutely be the best thing for the university to separate itself from the SWAC and become known as just a public university instead of an HBCU. But it'll never happen. Pretty sure the main reason they fired their last football coach was because he "didn't recruit enough JPS kids" which translates to too many white players.

Their leadership is very narrow minded and shortsighted. It's sad because a major D1/FBS university in the center of the state would have huge potential.
 
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WayboDawg

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Those rivalry games against Alcorn State, Miss. Valley, Grambling, and Southern are huge, HUGE money makers for Jackson State. It brings all kinds of revenue for the local businesses in Jackson, and usually fills a good portion of the 60,000 seat stadium they have for 3 to 4 games each year without fail. Not to mention the SWAC championship does a lot more for the conference members than sending a single representative to the D2 playoffs somewhere 2000 miles away only to get crushed 49-7. The SWAC championship game is a nice end of season reward for their two best teams, and is always held somewhere like Birmingham, so its something the fans are able to travel to without having to buy a plane ticket. The Sun-Belt might bring more funds and national exposure to JSU long term, but it would destroy all the old rivalry games that the JSU fans enjoy and look forward to, and it sounds like the SWAC championship is a lot of fun for them as well. I bet if you polled 10 JSU fans, 9 of them would vote to keep things the same.
 
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