Bayou Classic

and

somebody that's attended a few of those Bayou Classic games, I can tell you right now, I'm not surprised if he doesn't do what he should do because this has been going on for years.

There's a lot of money that could have been funneled into the Southern system to help a lot of students over the decades, not years, decades.

Students that became prominent, students that went on to national acclaim, all kinds of stuff.

So we have always known, it's the same thing every year, the SWAC is gonna come down.

You know, you're gonna get down to the, to the Bayou Classic.

You're gonna get down to late in the season, and you're still gonna be trying to figure things out.

But I think even by its own standard of unpredictability, this year it took it up a notch-

As we think about going after new proposals, we see the opportunity to partner.

Yes, we play Southern in the Bayou Classic, but we are partners every day of the year.

There's a spirit of competition across the ecosystem, but there's an even greater spirit of partnership.

And so we would be excited to partner with institutions within the University of Louisiana system.

So saves on all the things that you spoke about.

So exciting partnership, one that has organically been in place, but now we have the official structure to provide the pathway.

So you mentioned earlier the Bayou Classic.

I feel like we can't talk about Grambling without talking about your athletics program.

I say campaign, like the Black Caucus has come up for different things or different legislators have come up and HBCUs have come together and do things with us.

Gremlin does things, Southern, Bayou Classic has come up to have an event to kind of promote the Bayou Classic.

So there's a lot of community driven focus and they'll have their events there and we, you know, give them a deal on the space and many times we'll get the bar sponsored by somebody.

So it's just a good experience for everyone.

Yep, so...

You're the stadium voice for the Bayou Classic and the Allstate Sugar Bowl, right? That's correct.

And you've got your own show on the, is it the Love NOLA channel?

Yeah, Love NOLA TV can be found on YouTube, and my show is the Mark Romick Show.

Last time we found out, according to me, that Tom's house was the best one to grow up in.

And Norman put Mr. Grandpa Joe on trial.

Tonight, it's Norman.

It's Derek.

It's Foose.

What are you talking about? I was just listening to you describe it.

I was like, what is he talking

about? Clearly, Norman watched The Sopranos.