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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Correcting The Mistaken Belief That Stomp & Shake Cheerleading Is Performed At Every Historically Black University (Part IV: comments from the discussion thread for a 2022 video of a cheer battle between TxSU vs PV University)


Smash Time Productions, Premiered Mar 7, 2022

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Edited by Azizi Powell 

This is Part IV of a four part pancocojams series which corrects the mistaken belief that stomp & shake cheerleading is the cheer style that is performed at every historically Black college and university (HBCU).

 This post showcases a 2022 YouTube video of a basketball game half-time cheer battle between cheerleaders from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas and cheerleaders from Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas. 

This post also presents some comments from that video's discussion thread about the differences in the cheerleading styles between Historical Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) in SWAC athletic conference and in CIAA athletic conference. Other related subjects are also discussed in these selected comments.
  
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The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.   

Thanks to the cheerleading teams that are featured in this video, thanks to all those who are quoted in this post ,and thanks to the publisher of the video that is embedded in this post.
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This post can be considered as Part IV in an ongoing pancocojams series entitled entitled "
Correcting The Mistaken Belief That Stomp & Shake Cheerleading Is Performed At Every Historically Black University. Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/05/correcting-mistaken-belief-that-stomp.html for Part I of that series. The links to the other three posts in this series are found in those posts.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THREE COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCES
This information is provided since these conferences are repeatedly mentioned in the comments that are quoted in this post. 

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association
"The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) is a collegiate athletic conference, mostly consisting of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). CIAA institutions affiliate at the Division II level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).[1]

The twelve member institutions reside primarily along the central portion of the East Coast of the United States, in the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Since a majority of the members are in North Carolina, the CIAA moved its headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina from Hampton, Virginia in August 2015.[2]

The CIAA sponsors 14 annual championships and divides into north and south divisions for some sports. The most notable CIAA sponsored championship is the CIAA Basketball Tournament having become one of the largest college basketball events in the nation.[3]"...
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Click that link to read a list of the universities that are members of this athletic conference.

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Athletic_Conference
"The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; in football, it participates in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly referred to as Division I-AA.

The SWAC is widely considered the premier HBCU conference and ranks among the elite in the nation in terms of alumni affiliated with professional sports teams, particularly in football.[1] On the gridiron, the conference has been the biggest draw on the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level of the NCAA, leading the nation in average home attendance every year except one since FCS has been in existence.[2][3] In 1994, the SWAC fell just 40,000 fans short of becoming the first non-Football Bowl Subdivision conference to attract one million fans to its home games.”…
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Click that link to read a list of the universities that are members of this athletic conference. 

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THIS VIDEO
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UohggLv5v8o

2022

1. @MR_Mocha_Major
"Wait a minute! I didn’t know the cheerleaders had all that smoke! I’m here for it! Great job both teams!"

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2. @beyoncestan101
"Hmmm you never watched CIAA cheerleaders ? Lol"

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3. @MR_Mocha_Major
"@beyoncestan101  Never heard of it. Looking it up now."

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4. @beyoncestan101
"@MR_Mocha_Major  CIAA is the oldest HBCU athlete conference. You need to brush up on your HBCU history. It’s only 4 HBCU athlete conferences."

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5. @MR_Mocha_Major
"@beyoncestan101  I’m from the south. All I have ever known is SWAC."

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6. @beyoncestan101
"@MR_Mocha_Major  The majority of CIAA schools are in the South also in NC,SC and VA."
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NC=North Carolina' SC= South Carolina, VA= Virginia

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7. @MR_Mocha_Major
"@beyoncestan101  I’m from Louisiana. I should have specified the DEEP south. I consider those states the northeast lol"

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8. @beyoncestan101
"@MR_Mocha_Major  I’m from NC and this is very much the South. NC has more students enrolled at HBCUs than any other state. 60k plus to be exact. We have the strongest HBCU culture here."

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9. @supreme7057
"@beyoncestan101  Never heard of any HBCU outside of Southern, Jackson, Famu, Howard, Hampton, Grambling, Tuskegee, TXSU, PVAMU,  Morehouse, Clark and Spelman until like a few years ago."

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10. @supreme7057
"I was in Charlotte one weekend and it just so happen to be CIAA. I had no idea what it was even about."
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Charlotte= Charlotte, North Carolina

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11. @beyoncestan101
"@supreme7057  lol I’m sure you noticed the 150,000+ people and A- list celebrities like Drake, Diddy, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj that attend as well "

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12. @beyoncestan101
"@supreme7057  LOL I wouldn’t brag about being uninformed about HBCUs. In NC which has the most students enrolled at HBCUs we don’t talk much about SWAC or SIAC schools but we know who they are.  NCAT got like 5k more students then the biggest SWAC school please stop. 😂"
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from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Conference 
"The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Formed in 1913, it consists mostly of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), with all but one member located in the Southern United States."
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NCAT= North Carolina A&T (Agriculture and Technology) University

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13. @supreme7057
"@beyoncestan101  Not bragging. Just saying, it's not the Met Gala or anything. It's a regional celebration. I had fun that weekend I was there and loved Charlotte and even came back the next year"

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14. @beyoncestan101
"@supreme7057  The CIAA is the Met Gala of HBCU events. In 10 years the city of Charlotte made over 700,000 million dollars. The tournament moved to Baltimore, MD for 3 years."

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15. @themeanfriend.5928
"@beyoncestan101  North Carolina has more students in HBCU because North Carolina pushes high school students in college and teaches students that they won’t be sh-t* unless they attend college. They teach students how to work for someone else."
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*This word is fully spelled out in this comment.

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16. @ericford4490
"And y'all are leaving out the most important fact NC has the most HBCUs than any state it's why we have the most attendants and the largest HBCU enrollment wise is n NC (NCA&T) and somebody lying saying they never heard of any HBCUs in NC who graduates the most  Black Engineers in the World whose School of Engineering is ranked in the top 5 Nationally that's including PWIs- NC A&T, NCCU is one of the top law schools in the country and WSSU is one of the top nursing school in the country. All three of the great HBCUs are in the State of NC"

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17. @ericford4490
"@ MR Mocha Major these cheerleaders ain't ready  for the Cheerleaders of the CIAA they can't compete with that Stomp&Shake style that would make these two squads look like a  elementary school squad especially compared to WSSU and St Augustine University squads"

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18. @supreme7057
"@ericford4490  In the South, the stomp and shake style would be more suited for a Pep Squad or Step Team. Our cheerleaders focus more on tumbling and being girly. I watch some stomp and shake videos and it seems the focus is energy and pep. It's cool. I don't understand it, because it's not my culture. But, they look cute most times."

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19. @supreme7057
"@ericford4490  Lol. Yes. As someone from Louisiana, I recently (last 5 years) found out that people from Virginia consider themselves southerners. I never knew that."

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20. @ericford4490
"@supreme7057  it's because they are a southern state they had no choice. if Washington DC was a state it would be a southern state, Maryland is a southern state"

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21. @ericford4490
"@supreme7057  and u think stomp & Shake isn't girly ...lol...wow y'all ppl in the Deep South are I keep the rest to myself..lol . There's nothing about stomp &Shake that's appropriate for a step team. And y'all need to do more than concentrate on tumbling y'all have a lot to work to do in that area alone. tumbling can be incorporated in stomp and shake cause NC A&T does quite well with it. And what do you think cheerleading here? A pep squad is a student body thing has nothing to do with cheer and the purpose of cheerleaders is to pep up the fans during a game... what exactly are they teaching y'all in the Deep South got me puzzled"

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22. @supreme7057
"@ericford4490  That's why I said, It's not my culture. Just a heads up: I like Stomp and Shake.  I'm still learning about it. I thought the goal was the stomp the loudest and to cheer in the deepest voice. Stomp and Shake is becoming more and more popular. Even Southern University has a separate Stomp and Shake team now."

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23. @supreme7057
"@ericford4490  Send me the best Stomp And Shake squads to watch. I love all forms of dance and cheer and can appreciate Stomp and Shake."

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24. @supreme7057
"@beyoncestan101  CIAA brings in about 43 million per year for Charlotte. That's less than what the Bayou Classic brings to New Orleans, which is only two teams against each other. CIAA is not this big thing you think it is. It's fun and I love seeing successful black people, but yea."

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25. @ericford4490
"@supreme7057  no stomp and Shake is about using all body parts it's not restricted to arm usage it's also a fast pace of cheering and the cheers are more personal meaning not necessarily team focused  but cheerleader to cheerleader focused and more confrontational. The cheers are loud but the stomps not necessarily so but in away perfect for bench cheering for example a basketball game"

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26. @ericford4490
"@supreme7057  Stomp and Shake isn't my culture it's not that old. It was created in North Carolina less than 20 yrs ago. I'm getting use to it myself because I come from old school competitive based cheering wear stiffness, arms and tumbling is the only focus stomp and Shake requires a lot of quickness "
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This comment isn't accurate. Stomp & Shake cheerleading actually began at universities in the early to mid 1970s.

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27. @beyoncestan101
"@supreme7057  The CIAA tournament is like the 3rd most attended NCAA basketball tournament amongst all 3 divisions mam. Not just HBCU but D1 as well. The city made over $600 million dollars. That is HUGE for any city to make that much money from a NCAA event."

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28. @beyoncestan101
"@supreme7057  You’re a liar! The 2021 Final Four generated around $40m for Indianapolis . Charlotte made lover $50 million at the 2020 CIAA tournament. The CIAA tournament is actually one of the biggest sporting events in American sports culture not just HBCU Cultufe."

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29. @lavkyn
"Right! both looked great😊"

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30. @ericgoldberg1079
"Is this normal for HBCU cheer teams to “meet in the middle” I went to LSU and have never seen anything like this… or maybe it’s a special cheer off😂….I definitely found it interesting…. W goes to TxSU…..🏅😆🥇🎖"

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31. @lihjayyt2516
"Look up stomp & shake"

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32. @cbsoiceyy
"A Norfolk State Vs Hampton University cheer battle 😭😭.. we literally are at the line in each other’s face !"

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33. @ericgoldberg1079
"@cbsoiceyy  I actually find this interesting and I LOVE 💕 IT!!!"

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34. @WalterTerrell2009
"Gotta love the SWAC!"

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35. @bogusguhl2715< 2023
"CIAA has FAR better cheerleaders"

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36. @asheshshah5017
"The TSU AND PVU RIVAL IS SERIOUS!!!!!!!"

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37. @Kenkappa89, 2023
"Oh you ain’t know"

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38. @gregrodgers194, 2024
"YES IT IS!!"

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39. @ConsciousFBA, 2024
"Nothing like the rivalry between Howard and Hampton. They go at it and leave it on the floor."

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40. @tangelawoodland4385
"Loved the battle but PV need to leave that stomp n shake mess alone. Don't bring that mess to the SWAC....WE DON'T DO THAT HERE!"

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41. @ericford4490
"What stomp and shake. The SWAC can't handle the stomp and shake and u right they do need to leave it alone but they first need to develop the technique first"

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42. @tynerapiper2722
"WE DON’T DO THAT HERE!!!!!!!!!!"

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43. @ericford4490
"@tynerapiper2722  that ain't the only thing y'all don't do here, cheering not one of them either but that deathdrop was a beast and the only thing I found impressive about this video. And what PV was trying to do wasn't anywhere near Stomp & Shake it's best they stick with their own traditional type of cheering. Stomp and Shake was created n NC y'all ain't ready for that down there..."

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44. @tynerapiper2722
"@ericford4490  Listen, what they do there now is their business. I am proud either way!  I can only speak for when I was cheering AND captain 10 years ago!!! The death drop did shut PV down, but if THIS were MY SQUAD, PV wouldn’t have gotten a chance to shake their pom poms ☺️"

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45. @ericford4490
"@tynerapiper2722  lol ... i hear you.. I'm old school still big on competitive cheerleading. And this Stomp and Shake has taken over in high school circles in NC especially at prodominated black schools hell I'm still pissed my alma mater (NCAT) dropped coed and went to all female straight stomp &Shake squad but I guess they had no choice since Stomp and Shake is sooo huge n NC"

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46. @beyoncestan101
"I need SWAC cheerleaders to study the CIAA because this was very sloppy."

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47. @RJ25255
"Maybe pvam but TXSU handled theirs 🐅🐅🐅"

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48. @beyoncestan101
"@RJ25255  Nah they would get ate up my multiple CIAA squads in this format"

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49. @ericford4490
"Both teams have a lot of work to do, the only thing I was impressed with was that death drop. The one cheer that each squad did do lacked enough energy for me. Tx Southern squad was acting more like a danceline than a cheer squad"

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50. @RJ25255
"@beyoncestan101  Chile.. which teams so I can blast you lol"

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51. @beyoncestan101
"@RJ25255  WSSU, Virginia State, Lincoln, Bowie, St. Aug ,l just to name a couple."

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52. @RJ25255
" @beyoncestan101  Chile"

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53. @beyoncestan101
"@RJ25255  CIAA has the most popular rand original HBCU cheerleaders. This is why “ Super Saturday” attracts thousands of fans. The SWAC squads would get are up by most CIAA squads."
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“Are up” is a typo for “ate up”

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54. @perrion357
"@beyoncestan101  That may be true, but the SWAC has the Best Marching Bands in the Country, the CIAA doesn't really have bands 50 people and less doesn't count"

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55. @beyoncestan101
"@perrion357  What does Band have to do with cheerleading? The CIAA is D2 and smaller private schools. Still the CIAA Basketball tournament is the #1 HBCU sporting event ."

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56. @RJ25255
"@beyoncestan101  the SWAC is still the best! Everyone check for us boo! Have a blessed week!"

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57. @jerronjohnson
"🤣😂😂🤣🤣 I was thinking the same thing. But I decided to let them have it #HBCUPRIDE and all .. But this was funny at best"

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58. @beyoncestan101
"@jerronjohnson  Hmm the largest HBCU is. NC A&T  and GHOE is the biggest Homecoming . Howard, Spelman, Morehouse are the most prestigious. The CIAA Tournament is also the biggest HBCU sporting event. No shade but none of these schools are in the SWAC."
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North Carolina A&T University's homecoming is called GHOE =  "Greatest Homecoming on Earth!"

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59.@daizytales
"@beyoncestan101  nobody cares lol they ain’t battling ciaa school 😂"

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60. @bestwaypossible7413
"(I GOT TIME TODAY). The hate.. 🤣🤣. Well, it’s expected 🤷🏾‍♂️;  you can almost smell the hate by reading the totally irrelevant comparison to the CIAA🤣.  To truly understand “SWAC culture”, you must have an appreciation for the specific distinction between the different HBCU schools and conferences. Its like vocal accents almost.. that vary from different places within the US, or different foods we appreciate in Chicago or Atlanta. Two different places and unique flavors but There’s an appreciation for both if you understand the history of each HBCU. ALL should equally be celebrated! We love CIAA schools but the SWAC Is and always will be in its OWN lane. PERIOD, just has any other region or conference. LET TXSU and PV have their shine. Dang 🤣🤣 smh.. there’s always one.. lol 😂 — TXSU C/o 2009 🤘🏾 🐅 💨"

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61. @beyoncestan101
"@bestwaypossible7413  I absolutely love SWAC Culture! Being in the East Coast football culture is not as big this is lord basketball dominated . However the CIAA is Iconic for HBCU cheerleadering and the other HBCU conferences can take a lesson or two from the style and precision of the teams. This was NOT a good battle . The CIAA cheer exhibition at it speak filled an NBA arena sir……."

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62. @Bigobanger
"Ain't nobody checking for no F2 I mean D2 schools let's go SWAC"

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63. @EsiJua
"@beyoncestan101  TSU and PV are in "the real (deep) south" -like most SWAC schools.  They dont have real "battles" down here - just awkward friendly rivalries. We're too kind down here for hard-nosed "battles". CIAA is actually east coast and quasi-southern. Y'all used to fighting (battling) out there and Atlanta hasn't been "southern" since all of Black Chicago, St. Louis, Philly, NYC and Detroit moved there in 90s and early 2000s."

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64. @ericford4490
"@beyoncestan101  thats not true most CIAA schools are public institutions with the exception of JCSU, Livingstone , Shaw, St Aug, and Lincoln"

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65. @ericford4490
"@Bigobanger  scared to check? Although, they D2 if we were to match up The SWAC cheerleaders against the CIAA cheerleaders the SWAC won't win once and will get booed off their own courts. She's right this ain't even considered a cheer battle idk what to call it a battle definitely it ain't. I've seen all the SWAC cheerleaders squads they all lack energy their stunts are simple but nowhere near top notch. A matter of fact I can put some high school cheerleading squads like Harding University HS, Vance HS, Olympic HS all out of Charlotte, NC, Dudley HS out of Durham, Fayetteville 71st out of Fayetteville these are high schools out of NC will have the energy on turbo from the start to the end and wax the floor with these SWAC cheerleaders boy please you better recognize!! cause you ain't seen jack!!!"

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70. @ericford4490
"Most of the institutions that was part of the old MEAC came from the CIAA .. North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central, Hampton, And Norfork St all were former CIAA schools look at them now!!!"

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71. @SmashTimeProductions
"@bestwaypossible7413  well said! Everyone has there own lane! CIAA Cheerleaders have gotten all the shine for years. Mainly because their bands and other units are not as entertaining compared their cheer squads . Vs the SWAC most ppl are coming to see the bands and cheer gets overlooked. Now i post one high quality video of SWAC cheer and it’s a problem. Makes me wonder would have if SWAC cheer got even more exposure. 🤔"

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72. @beyoncestan101
"@SmashTimeProductions  It’s not a problem we love all HBCUs ❤️ I was just saying this format is original to the CIAA and I’m glad the Stomp n Shake style is finally taking off in the SWAC!"

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73. @cartiercroix
"@beyoncestan101  please understand SWACC isn’t stomp and shake. When all you do is stay on the east coast you begin to be closed minded. SWACC is very much a stunt, and tumble squads with strong sharp motions we don’t do stomp and shake. And that’s coming from a cheerleader who cheered in Georgia, Maryland. People need to understand the difference in styles"

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74. @cartiercroix
"@SmashTimeProductions  go ahead and keep filming the cheer teams from the SWACC bc clearly they want more"

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75. @SmashTimeProductions
"@cartiercroix  Trust me i will."

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76. 
@njdivad, 2023
"PVAMU grad. Seriously,  all I saw was hair whipping. Not a lot of technical or creativity"

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77. @lawrence9992
"Hmmmm ciaa cheerleaders are wayyy better. Specifically WSSU"

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78. @JDURANTPANTHER
"Umm two different styles of cheer we don’t stomp and shake in the SWAC however we never run from a battle from any school"

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79. @mrpat7569
"Good stuff on both sides.... this would have been 10x better if they had a little stomp shake"

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80.@PhoneHacked69
"Cheer Competitions / Battles are different in the South. We show out."

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