Elizabeth City State University

And your parents, Lamar, went to...

My mother and father met at Elizabeth City State University.

My mom out of a small town called Scotland Neck, North Carolina.

My dad out of an even smaller town, Tyner, North Carolina.

I don't know if y'all told y'all that, but my dad went to A&T.

And my aunt went to North Carolina Central.

And my other aunt went to Elizabeth City State University.

And like...

I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's a huge conference.

My alma mater is in it, Elizabeth City State University.

And so as a president of student athletes, I went to every CIAA tournament.

And so it just so happened that I was in college when the CIAA celebrated their 100th anniversary.

So we have to cultivate that.

You have Elizabeth City State University there, the only four-year aviation sciences program.

You know, look at how drones are quickly changing.

And by the way, when I think about Elizabeth City State University, their aviation program, nationally recognized, I think about the work we're doing even to support an additional $89 million for the F-35 Aircraft Sustainment Center.

Think about the work we've done with Seymour Johnson with the F-15E and now trying to modernize to the F-15EX.

I look at the work that we're doing, the great announcement with FRCEs, the Global Transport and building out the Global Transport.

And y'all get mad at me for telling the truth.

Yeah, and we had, uh, the rest of them, uh, not quite a BTA over VU, uh, VU, uh, VUU versus ECSU.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and then, uh, you know, Virginia State, they took care of business against Lincoln.

Uh, Lincoln did score 32 points, so, you know, they continue to kinda, to let up off the gas, I guess, a little bit defensively, but we'll talk there.

Uh, but let's just kinda go to some of these other games, Chris, uh, really quickly.

We had VUU at, uh, ECSU.

Um, I'm sorry, we had ECSU at VUU.

The Missy Elliott Presents HBCU Band Battle will begin at 4:00 PM at Norfolk State University's William Dick Price Stadium.

Four marching bands will take the field, Norfolk State Spartan Legion, Virginia State's Trojan Explosion, Hampton University's Marching Force, and Elizabeth City State's Sound of Class.

Elliott, a Virginia native, said bringing the event home is especially meaningful.

Her connection to Norfolk State includes delivering the university's 2022 commencement address, receiving an honorary doctorate, and donating $20,000 to the school.

And it's frustrating, right? Because if I remember correctly, Western Carolina University had their early voting site approved.

But when we think about UNCG and then A&T, which North Carolina A&T University, which also, too, I believe is one of the nation's largest HBCUs and Elizabeth City State University, those early voting sites not being approved and not existing.

That has a real impact, right? And you have to think about who it's impacting, too, particularly with, you know, North Carolina A&T.

Those are Black voters.

So I, that's why I said get ready to dance and get ready to hear so much from the HBCU marching bands.

Right now, our starting lineup, there will be more to come, is of course we have, um, Elizabeth City State University from Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

We also have Hampton University, um, right here in front of the 757, Virginia State University.

And of course, we have the Spartan Legion, um, which I'm a proud alum of Norfolk State University-

And they were in that game.

And then you've got Virginia State, who, despite the loss to South Carolina State, that's their only loss, right? And other than that, and, you know, a little blip on the radar against Elizabeth City State, they've been pretty good.

They've been putting up 40 points a game, you know, minus those two.

Right.

Elizabeth

City? If you had to give them a grade, and I'll tell you what the AI said.

Well, I think that, you know, Wichita State is a D. I think that, you know, Elizabeth City is maybe a D+.

because they've had some chances in some games, and they pushed teams in the first half.