Any ideas of a possible merger between the two largest HBCU athletic conferences in the country were shot down with a one-word answer during MEAC football media day.
Sonja Stills, less than a year on the job as league commissioner, dismissed the notion that MEAC and SWAC could consolidate to form a so-called super conference as part of radical realignment.
“Yeah, no,” Stills said when asked on Friday whether she or conference leaders were considering creating a partnership with the SWAC, a conference that bloated to 12 schools after taking on ex-MEAC members Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M in 2021.
Conversations about an HBCU super conference have intensified — online and even publicly among well-known Black college coaches — after the likes of North Carolina A&T, Hampton Savannah State and the two Florida-based schools left the conference within the last half-decade.