North Greenville University = Trailblazers
in order for NGU to join Conference Carolinas a mascot change was required as Belmont Abbey College also had the mascot âCrusadersâ
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That seems pretty silly. SEC is the king of mascot repetition with three Tigers and two Bulldogs. And then, of course, thereâs all those Owls in the AAC!
One of the craziest things is that Nevada is the Wolf Pack instead of what was originally the Wolfpack because NC State copyrighted the single word and threatened to sue UNR.
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OOC GAMES OF INTEREST - Nov 12
CHARLOTTE WBB 53
#12 Ohio State WBB 94
North Florida 77
Georgia 90
West Georgia 73
Tennessee Tech 76
DIAMOND HEAD CLASSIC
⢠Potential 3rd round opponent
Western Oregon (D-II) 58
Oregon State 94
This was reassuring.
UNF was on a tear.
Yep. Dawgs led by 12 at the half then basically equal in the final 20. UGA had 6 in double figures and top 3 scorers not named Newell.
We should start a yearly rivalry with Queens. We could expand the Hornets Nest competition to include them. In order to get the trophy you have to beat the sitting trophy holder.
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Big no. Nothing to gain, everything to lose
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Yes, because our current non-con schedule of Presbyterian, Livingstone, Long Island, and West Georgia (apart of the same conference as Queens) is too high-class and upper tier.
Ultimately these are students playing sports. Long travels for already nationally irrelevant teams is ludicrous. At least keep it close to home.
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We scheduled soft because we had to rebuild. It doesnât have to be the norm.
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Nice win by PC over favored Wofford tonight.
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Its precisely because they are local that its a bad idea. Its not simply bc they are bad.
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The new norm is constant rebuilding. By that logic the norm will also be weak schedules.
We had nearly 60 years to build a nationally or regionally prominent athletics team. With current transfer portal rules, those that already have a stake in the ground are the only ones to benefit. Thatâs why weâve lost our best 5 players in two years.
Why not play locally relevant teams? Weâre all D1 teams after all. Especially if we have to sandbag our non-con schedule.
In my honest opinion we should prioritize scheduling powerhouse schools in the ACC and SEC each year. Theyâre local enough to incentivize short travel distances and regionally prominent enough for large attendance at home games.
We canât market our school on historical relevance, on a prominent coaching staff (which would require a high-class HC pick up from a P5 school), and we canât market recent success (because the best players leave each year).
You know what we could market? âWe play against some of the top level talent in the region.â What kid who thinks theyâre hot at basketball wouldnât want a piece of that? Test yourself.
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Nothing about âclassâ. You are missing the point that they are in Charlotte. We need to take a page out of UNCâs playbook here and never play them. Everything to lose, nothing to gain.
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Funny that all these years after Dean Smith stepped down the idea still persists that the Heels wonât play in state non-ACC schools.
Except for the fact that we do have something to gain. Student involvement and citywide relevance.
We are not UNC. We are the school that when acronymed as âUNCCâ gets mistaken for UNC.
We are in a two-bid conference that has the makeup of Conference USA from 5 and 20 years ago. Pride doesnât take you far, unless of course the goal is to play in Long Island against a school I never even knew existed.
Dean always said that Chapel Hill played a national schedule, as if North Carolina wasnât part of the nation.
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Nobody cares about queens
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The students on campus that could travel to that game would.
The students that play for the team and can still finish their homework assignments because they donât have to cram into a plane would.
Money that could otherwise be spent on equipment instead of travel expenses would.
Nobody is watching a Long Island game. Nobody is watching a West Georgia game. If youâre going to travel far, for the very least make it worth your time. This is like painting an advertisement to the underside of a bridge in Idaho.