MY community college. 
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At least we get to start conference play at home, though it will be during Xmas break.
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clt cannot wait to be back in halston
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I dont think I have ever gone into a basketball season with less emotional investment than I have right now.
I understand the feeling very well, but letโs give him a chance with his new mercenaries.
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After looking over the sked again, going to predict the Niners will go undefeated in Halton.
Probably shouldnโt lose any games in Mecklenburg County, but since Davidson is at Belk, will give a slight nod to the Cats until I see what they have this season.
Meh theyโve always been hired guns to an extent. I donโt like the landscape either but thereโs no reason we canโt win and it canโt be fun. Still says Charlotte across the chest.
I was never going to cookouts with these kids or anything anyways. The brilliant novelist Tom Wolfe addressed college basketball players being hired guns twenty years ago in I am Charlotte Simmons. Itโs just worse, not new.
Basketball and Fearne is my last hope. If he doesnโt get it right, weโre fucked forever because Hill wonโt make a good hire later.
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Winning helps makes it fun.
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The difference was the hired gun came here typically for a coach and then stayed here. I am the fan I am because of Jarvis Lang. I met him my freshman year got to know him some and got to watch him grow.
In todayโs environment none of our best players stay. And not even just our greats but also players like Diego and Jobey. I canโt call any of our current players Niners. They are just professionals wearing a jersey for maybe only a semester. I am not going to invest myself emotionally into a program that canโt build continuity. I am not going to financially support teams that have our athletes making money while getting a free ride. If we win - yay, but we didnt win with our guys. If we lose, whatever.
I am not and will not ever root against us - but I really donโt have much care to buy tickets or watch this. I wont go to Davidson for the first time in years and I have dropped season tickets after over 2 decades.
Itโs not just our program that is suffering a painful slow demise, it is every program not in the โpower 4/5โ. With an open portal, bags of money being handed out, majority of all conference players transferring out, etc etc. It is a path downhill that has no end.
I too have been a season ticket holder for decades and am questioning renewing football and basketball next year. Itโs not because of coaching, wins/losses, etc it is the realization that the continued price increases are only to fund players that truly donโt care about the University but are only eyeing their next bag of money. Not what I signed up for so many years ago.
Sad that money and greed by all concerned is killing what once was a great thing.
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This. Eddie and Leemire were at our tailgate. Talk to them. They are niners. They bleed green. Whatever the circumstances that had them land in Charlotte, they left as Niners. They care about our school. It started for basketball, but they left as one of us.
Patterson, Jackson, whoever we have this year are not and wont be Niners and if we win this year it starts over. If we lose it starts over. The players donโt give a shit about the school. Itโs just transactional. f that.
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โI want Niner Nation to know, Iโm about wins. Thatโs it.โ
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Agree with you guys who just posted about dissatisfaction with the current model.
Not sure there is any cure for it except maybe splitting off from D1 into a new divisions.
And that may not fix it completely.
I donโt think it will stop the mercenary viewpoint of transferring up and down but perhaps it slows it down.
I do think it would fix th lack of competitiveness issue that dogs all of D1 outside the P4.
Iโm interested in seeing how things are after the last of the extra covid year players phase out. Thatโs going to dramatically reduce the player pool.
At least until theyโre all made employees and the eligibility rules are done away with.
None of them?
I think Graves is a Niner, his mama was too. Folkes and Braswell have been loyal as well. The list is much shorter than in years past but youโll still have those guys that love the school and bleed green.
Jon Davis is a perfect example of a man who could have went anywhere but chose to stay through some of the worst years of Niner basketball.
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