{"id":154459,"date":"2025-11-13T13:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbcugameday.com\/?p=154459"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:53:26","slug":"sec-acc-teams-hop-on-d2-hbcu-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbcugameday.com\/2025\/11\/13\/sec-acc-teams-hop-on-d2-hbcu-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC, ACC teams hop on D2 HBCU transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/kenyon-garner-46162407\/\">SEC and ACC programs are still competing on the field, but they are also competing for the services of a Division II HBCU standout.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenyon Garner, a 6-foot-4, 230-pound edge rusher is a highly coveted prospect out of Livingstone College. He entered the transfer portal following the Salisbury, NC-based HBCU program\u2019s season-ending loss to Johnson C. 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This has become a trend in the conference as last season\u2019s champion Virginia Union had players end up at West Virginia and <a href=\"https:\/\/hbcugameday.com\/2025\/01\/03\/acc-squad-gets-commitment-from-pair-of-ex-hbcu-wide-receivers\/\">Wake Forest, among other places.<br><\/a><br>While that\u2019s greater for players like Garner and the SEC and ACC schools, it leaves smaller schools \u2014 particularly Division II HBCUs in a consistent talent drain.<br><br>So how do HBCU programs remain relevant in this new era where they are out-gunned financially by the SEC, ACC and even FCS? That\u2019s something that CIAA Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker and the conference leadership talk about often.<br><br>\u201cI mean, we want to be competitive. I mean, we know that we&#8217;re not on an equal playing ground, period. Never have been. We were until some of the bigger schools were able to have bigger offerings to attract our students to go to their institutions. 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