Jackson, MS - Jackson State has won a whopping 16 Southwestern Athletic Conference championships.
With Walter Payton Award candidate quarterback Casey Therriault and what figures to be a stingy Tigers' defense, JSU was primed to make a run at another league title in its upcoming 100th season of football. But last month, the school learned that both JSU and Southern University are banned from competing for the SWAC title because of low Academic Progress Rate scores.
The football team's score of 897 was less than the required 900, marking the third straight year the program has failed to reach 900. That led to the Tigers being banned from postseason play.
Nevertheless, that hasn't dampened the Tigers' enthusiasm for the 2011 season which begins Sept. 3 against Concordia College-Selma. "Sometimes, you've got to take the hand that's dealt," coach Rick Comegy said. "That hand's been dealt and the kids understand that and we're not sitting around.
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