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SWAC schools tired of guaranteed-game blowouts

By Andy Glockner
ESPN.com

Thursday, August 23, 2007

SWAC tired of just playing for cashAP Photo/Tim LarsenTrey Johnson and Jackson State's wins over Rutgers, Illinois-Chicago and UTEP helped it to a surprisingly high nonconference RPI of 109. They are the SWAC exception, not the rule. "If all of us need money that bad, then maybe we shouldn't be Division I." The comment from Alabama A&M head coach Vann Pettaway was jolting. In an era when schools of all shapes and sizes are staking their institutional reputations on a plunge into the NCA ...

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