Grambling State to go independent ??

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GSU football needs to go independent
O.K. "Buddy" Davis, Executive Sports Editor
Ruston Leader
http://www.rustonleader.com/news.php?id=693

Suggestion for Grambling State University’s football program: exit the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Leave. Get out. Bolt.

Whatever, just move on to what can be many more opportunities and even more national exposure for one of America’s most successful and famous athletic teams.

With all due apologies to the 10-member league and the long standing relationship that the school has had with the conference, but it would behoove Grambling to be an independent football program.

Remain within the NCAA’s Division 1-AA ranks, but break away from any ties to the SWAC.

The Lincoln Parish school where the late and famous sports commentator Howard Cosell once said, “the trains don’t stop unless you flag ‘em down” can stand on its own in the football world.

Trust us, they can.

Grambling is one of the few, it not the only, historically black university where the success and tradition that it has enjoyed in this sport would allow it to be strictly an independent identity on the NCAA’s landscape.

Cosell, in fact, once referred to Grambling as “the black Notre Dame,” meaning that it’s a school that has a national following and reputation similar to the Fighting Irish.

The SWAC needs Grambling far more than Grambling needs the SWAC.

It’s Grambling that provides the major recognition factor for the conference. ...more...