I think Lambert was a nice guy but was never head coach material at least for scholarship level football. He slowed the advancement of the program IMO. He did avoid major scandals which was by far the most important metric for Judy and Phil at the time.
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Lambert couldnât recruit worth a damn, he destroyed local relationships, his in game coaching was poor at best. He went 8-24 in CUSA and 22-48 (with 13 of those wins coming against FCS or sub teams). On top of that his staff with a few exceptions were on their retirement tour, or were unable to go any higher than here. Even his best players were walk-onâs he lucked into.
Iâll never understand the âLambert was a good man for starting the programâ. Did he run a clean program, graduate kids, and not break the law? Sure, but thatâs the baseline, not the expectation. At that point just save the university money and hire a PE coach.
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LambertâŚlike Judy are perfect for a school that wants to have D1 sports programs. They are not for schools that want to thrive at D1 sports or be highly competitive at D1 sports.
If you want to run a program without budget deficits and without controversyâŚthey are perfect.
If your mentaility is why play if youâre not trying to winâŚMike Hill, Healy and Dirty Sanchez are the way to go.
I was trying to get them a hook up with Boost.
Say what you will. Lambert left a solid fd for coach Healy & to say he lucked into some walk ons is misguided at best Starting qb cornerback. A linebacker competing for a starting spot at Sam. Who is still a walk on. & a 3rd round nfl draft pick. Thatâs not luck.
Deluca. Harris. Watts fisher. To name a few are good ball players & high character guys.
Lambert would have been a great FCS coach. That first class (Duke, Matt Johnson, Larry O, Khalif) wouldnât have won the FCS natty, but theyâd have been very good, and would certainly have made the playoffs.
But the second we signed on the FBS dotted line Lambo was in over his head.
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He certainly hit on some diamonds in the roughâŚbu that was all he went for. He was awful at competing head to head for established athletes with multiple D1 offers. You need to hit on both to succeedâŚbut you canât hope to build a competitive program just by hitting on the diamonds in the rough because they are fewer and far between. He completely whiffed when it came down to getting already recognized high quality hs athletes âŚcompletely whiffed and sometimes even worseâŚhe didnât even try.
He seemed to be following the old WFU philosophy, be an also ran 4 out of 5 years and then once out of every 5 years you might have enough diamond-in-the-rough type guys to be a team worth talking about.
Perfectly said.
clt is hearing an absurd idea out of appy. to save money, the school is handing out masks to be shared by fb attendees. each group gets a mask, and encouraged to pass it around every 3 minutes.
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I think Lambert had some success selling the âyou can start a programâ to kids that were not getting FBS nibbles. After a couple of years of playing, that didnât make much sense.
clt says we should think about the lowly appys and their struggle to stay in FBS.
Maybe a fundraiser of sorts?
Can Wendyâs employees accept tips?
Maybe we could pay for a dentist to come up the mountain?
We need to help our appy friends out in their Indefinite time of need.
ghostofclit,
I have a query. What percentage of fees and school funds supports athletics at Charlotte?
I have read a few different numbers but I was wondering how Charlotte pushes that information out to its supporters.
Well that is a stupid commentâŚ
I know you apps struggle with math, and I know you love your anti Charlotte propaganda, but you charge your students more than we do.
clt provides the dumb appy response.
Charlotte has more 10,000+ more students so you get more money.
Is that the number that is listed on the student bills? I know what is reported on the USA Today website (which is so accurate it does not even show any Charlotte logo, old or new), but there are a few ways to get at these numbers. That was my question. And then there is the âschool support that comes from general operating expensesâ that may not be tied to âStudent Feesâ but still what students are paying, regardless of the name of the pot of money being used.
I took a look on the University website and you canât really tell. They roll Athletics, Student Activities and Debt Services (Funds the principal and interest for capital projects. An example for UNC Charlotte includes the Student Union, Football Stadium, and Student Activity Facility.) into âUniversity Feesâ which are $1097 per semester. I was pleasantly surprised to see that in-state tuition and fees total $3810.50 per semester. That is a bargain! Of course there are room and board costs on top of that for most students, but there are several million people within an hour drive to campus that can commute and get a quality education while living at home if they want to minimize costs.
Fee Descriptions: Explanation of Fees | Niner Central | UNC Charlotte
Fee Amounts: https://ninercentral.uncc.edu/sites/ninercentral.uncc.edu/files/media/Documents/FY20-FY21-Main_Campus_Graduate.pdf
Thanks for the researched answer. Private college do all sorts of stuff with pots of money. One would think public universities could have a standard manner to report but that is certainly not true across state lines and I doubt that is true even within the UNC system in NC.
It looks like UNC Charlotte is merging some pots of money together, and I bet other schools are doing the same.
I should look for this information at other UNC System schools.
clt says appy includes a ânew fancy bus feeâ in addition to an AOL high speed internet connection fee
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