Cats are beatable but need everyone to show up and show out.
What’s Rosado’s problem?
Knee injury.
We’ve been playing poorly and against schools we’ve never heard of before. That’s part of why people aren’t showing up.
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Playing against schools we never heard before even though we have played them before.
No argument about the poor play.
I am a student at the school. I am sharing the sentiment of the students. We showed up for the ECU game (and I camped for it) because we all know of the school. I have never once thought of Presbyterian even if we have played them before.
It’s part of why the conference is important. People have heard of ECU, USF, Tulane, Memphis, so it creates curiosity for unknown schools in the conference like Wichita State. 5 schools in this conference are schools we’ve been playing for what seems like forever, so they’re familiar after a couple of years.
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TBH, I wouldn’t think of PC much if it wasn’t my father’s alma mater.
This is also why I have the argument for playing Queens. Because people that go to this school have family members that attended Queens, or at the very least, have actually heard of the school before.
It’s also why I was saying we should only prioritize scheduling opponents that people actually know and have some regional prominence.
I hate to break it to this forum, but we are in fact a no-name school. We are irrelevant. The athletics at this school have been irrelevant since 2005, which is nearly as old as I am. Not a single family member of mine had heard of this school before I started attending here. My friends and family were all shocked to hear UNCC was even D1. Everyone thought we were maybe D2 if anything.
The rebrand was important because the new logo fits the bill for nationally and regionally prominent teams. Football scheduling has been near perfect since the rebrand. The win against Duke was massive. The move to this conference with schools people have actually heard of was important.
Even if we lose by 30 points to NC State or whatever, it means something because people will show up in-person. Our logo, our brand, our players, and our everything get exposure. I just think some people think much too highly because they were around when we had teams that were ranked.
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I’d be fine with playing Queens too. Like Davidson and Presbyterian, a historically small Carolinas college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.
As did my father, my mother also attended a Presby school, though her undergrad alma mater Flora MacDonald College in Red Springs no longer exists after merging in 1958 with Presbyterian Junior College in Maxton to become what is now St. Andrews University in Laurinburg.
Interesting thing about SAU and UNC Charlotte is that both schools employed the same architect - A.G. Odell Jr. of Charlotte - to create the first master plans for each campus.
UNC Charlotte
St. Andrews U
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I have been a while but I just learned a lot from that post. Thanks for sharing.
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Presbyterian is not that unknown to Charlotte. The ‘57 and 58’ Charlotte College Owls teams I was on played Presbyterian Jr College. For some reason, I thought they were a military school but that was a long time ago and the old brain doesn’t always work properly.
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Looks like a military academy operated on the former campus of Presbyterian Junior College after the latter merged with Flora MacDonald to create St. Andrews and relocated to a new campus in Laurinburg. Like Davidson at the time, PJC was all-male. Likewise, FMC and Queens were then all-female.
https://www.ncpedia.org/presbyterian-junior-college-men
And speaking of all female schools, I’m old enough to remember when Winthrop fell into that category. A classmate of mine at North Meck HS was a member of the very first Winthrop men’s basketball team after the school went co-ed in the 1970s.
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Bring back the old North South doubleheader with
Charlotte, Davidson, Queens and Withrop as a holiday tournament.
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Still a half to play but West Georgia (0-10) might finally get their very first D-I victory today. Wolves lead Tennessee Tech 49-32.
OOC GAMES OF INTEREST - Dec 7
East Tennessee 87
Wichita State 96
NC Central 78
Gardner-Webb 77
Bluefield State (D-II) 89
Livingstone (D-II) 84
Utah Tech 62
Utah State 92
Tennessee Tech 73
West Georgia 78
DIAMOND HEAD CLASSIC
Hawaii 68
Long Beach State 76
• Potential 2nd round opponent
Nebraska 52
Michigan State 89
• Potential 3rd round opponent
South Florida 72
Loyola Chicago 74
or
Oakland 50
Youngstown State 66
or
Idaho 62
Oregon State 78
OOC GAMES OF INTEREST - Dec 8
Richmond 54
#2 Auburn 98
DIAMOND HEAD CLASSIC
• Potential 2nd round opponent
SE Missouri State 53
Murray State 73
Loyola Chicago injury could be the difference between the Ramblers being the fav or not in Hawaii. Jayden Dawson is 2nd leading scorer (12 ppg) and a top defender. A potential Loyola meeting with Niners would occur in 3rd round.
OOC GAMES OF INTEREST - Dec 10
CHARLOTTE 71
Davidson 75
Battle for the Hornets Nest
DIAMOND HEAD CLASSIC
• Potential 3rd round opponent
Charleston 78
Saint Joseph’s 75