The fact that Hampton was actively seeking to leave the Big South and pursue CAA membership was one of the worst kept secrets in FCS or HBCU athletics. HBCU Gameday reached out to Big South Conference Commissioner Kyle Kallander on Monday to talk about how his league would proceed but has not made contact with him. Colonial Athletic Association Commissioner Joe D’Antonio (l.) and Hampton Athletics Director Eugene Marshal (r.) at Tuesday’s announcement of the Pirates move from the Big South Conference to the CAA beginning in the 2022-23 season. The Pirates, the primary founding member of the CIAA – the league was birthed in 1912 on its campus – left behind a combined 100 years of HBCU competition (83 years in the CIAA, 23 in the MEAC) for its new digs in the Big South. The Pirates left HBCU conference affiliation all together when it jumped to the Big South Conference in 2018. II status in 1995 to move up to another HBCU conference, the Div.
To say Hilton is concerned would be an understatement. HBCU Gameday asked NC A&T Director of Athletics, Earl Hilton. What many HBCU and college athletics’ observers want to know however, is the reaction of first-year Big South member North Carolina A&T to Hampton’s decision.
The NCAA just completed its 2022 convention in Indianapolis and some sports experts are saying the system is on the verge of being torn up from its root. Some have opined that the situation is untenable. I athletics and the NCAA have been described as “fractured,” with realignment and jockeying for position at a feverish pace. In reality, such is the environment of NCAA college athletics today.
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