While we are on this topic, I usually visit Yahoo! for my sports scores and have noticed that they still havenāt updated the Top 25 score bar to say āCharlotteāā¦we still appear as āUNC Charlotteā. The team page and other references on the site are correct, however.
I just sent a quick note, but it may help if a few others tried also. Be sure to point out that it is correct everywhere else on the site - it may help speed the process along if they donāt have to dig up some kind of official confirmation. :huh:
[i]Originally posted by Pork Chop[/i]@Feb 16 2005, 02:37 PM
[b] I'm just glad that the national (and sometimes local) media doesn't call the team NC-Charlotte. There are tons of schools in this era that shortenend their name to get more recognition: UT Chattanooga dropped the UT, Kent State dropped the State, Memphis State dropped the State, Southeast Missouri State is now just SMS, Detroit U. and Mercy College merged and became Detroit-Mercy, now its just Detroit.
Thats a fun game. Well for me anyway, Iām a big tool. Can anyone else think of recently shortened names for athletic programs? [/b]
Actually, SMS is Southwest Missouri State. My cousin is the cross country coach there and he said theyāve had a lot of trouble with those two schools being confused.
Other schools in NC have unofficially dropped āUNCā from their athletics uniforms, at leastā¦ UNCAās uniforms just say āAshevilleā and I think UNCGās just say āGreensboro.ā But thatās another identity problem itself, since thereās a separate institution called Greensboro College.
Thanks for dropping the SMS knowledge, TF. Iām a big dork about this stuff. A friend of mine and I like to play this game where one will name the college and the other has to name its nickname. He usually wins because heās a hockey fan. Heāll ask me like Minnesota-Mankato and Iāll just go tell him to go mineshaft himself. Stupid hockey.
[i]Originally posted by Pork Chop[/i]@Feb 16 2005, 03:37 PM
[b] Thanks for dropping the SMS knowledge, TF. I'm a big dork about this stuff. A friend of mine and I like to play this game where one will name the college and the other has to name its nickname. He usually wins because he's a hockey fan. He'll ask me like Minnesota-Mankato and I'll just go tell him to go mineshaft himself. Stupid hockey. [/b]
haha... Silly sport, hockey is.... didn't there used to be a professional hockey league in the U.S.? Hmm....
One of the other teachers at the school I work at calls me āRain Manā because I know so many sports nicknames. I knew watching hours upon hours of SportsCenter would get me somewhere in life.
I think the school most ripe for a name change has to be Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Theyāre a satellite school of a satellite school! Imagine if there was a N.C. State-Asheboro. Look for them to be come āCorpus Christiā sometime soon.
[i]Originally posted by UNCCTF[/i]@Feb 16 2005, 03:33 PM
[b] Other schools in NC have unofficially dropped "UNC" from their athletics uniforms, at least... UNCA's uniforms just say "Asheville" and I think UNCG's just say "Greensboro." But that's another identity problem itself, since there's a separate institution called Greensboro College. [/b]
Alex, both teams are using their nicknames, the Spartans and the Pride, on their uniforms. And Greensboro College has a pretty good up and coming coach in former Wake Forest 3-sport player, Rusty LaRue.
Itās hard to belive that someone could average 6 points per game in college and have a 6 year professional career.
[i]Originally posted by HP49er[/i]@Feb 16 2005, 03:43 PM
[b] Alex, both teams are using their nicknames, the Spartans and the Pride, on their uniforms. [/b]
Ah. Probably a good call on their part. Have we ever used "Forty-Niners" on the uniform?
Iād forgotten about Rusty Larue! Itās amazing who can get into the NBA (Larue, Darko, Matt Wenstrom) and who canāt (DeMarco).
Yes, FORTY across the top and NINERS under the number was on the home uniforms during the 79-82 seasons under Mike Pratt. They were in the same type font as the Kansas jersyes have.
Hofstra used to be the Flying Dutchmen. Now theyāre the Pride. Booo! Furman Purple Palladins dropped the Purple Booooooo! The Elon Phoenix used to be the Elon Fighting Christians. I guess they didnāt fight too much, just kept turning the other cheek.
TF, youāre the man! Quagmire avatar and a fellow nickname dork. Allright!