[QUOTE=NinerATL2CHA;189921]Like the saying you can’t spell Citrus Bowl without UT… as in Univ. of Tenn.[/QUOTE]
Where’s that ban button? :ticked:
Where's that ban button? :ticked:
Hey, now I’m not saying I agree with him… Yikes!!
Speaking of UT, I can’t tell if they are really good or not this year. They almost lost to Air Force, but they should have beaten Florida. Who do they play next?
[QUOTE=davidpoole;189900]I actually do have a serious question, no fooling around. When you’re a student at North Carolina, you refer to the school as “Carolina” as sort of a shorthand. When I was in college, people who went to UNC Charlotte called it UNCC, to the best of my recollection. Has that changed? Do students now say “I go to Charlotte?” Or do they say “I go to U-N-C-C?” Has that changed?[/QUOTE]
I would agree with you Poole. Average students say UNCC. The people on this board, including myself, are a poor representation. We want it to be U of Charlotte and a lot of students do, but in the meantime most students call their school UNCC.
I can’t get too angry with outsiders for saying UNCC. Its not their fault that we have such a confusing name for our school that, unfortunately, abbreviates to UNCC. I love our school, but not the name.
Also, Carolina, is commonly used to refer to UNC Chapel Hill by alumni, students, and the general public.
I would agree with you Poole. Average students say UNCC. The people on this board, including myself, are a poor representation. We want it to be U of Charlotte and a lot of students do, but in the meantime most students call their school UNCC.I can’t get too angry with outsiders for saying UNCC. Its not their fault that we have such a confusing name for our school that, unfortunately, abbreviates to UNCC. I love our school, but not the name.
Also, Carolina, is commonly used to refer to UNC Chapel Hill by alumni, students, and the general public.
Oddly enough, I don’t really support the whole name change thing, but do call the school Charlotte. It is really just a pain in the ass to say UNC before Charlotte.
I don't know where you get these ideas.The first part of what you said suggests that we want to be “UNC”. That is not the case at all.
And then you say that we have an inferiority complex. Not at all. There is plenty going for Charlotte’s only public university - it is a great school! I’m just tired of being confused with your school. The naming convention is completely ridiculous. If they wanted to employ it as intended, we should be talking about UNC Raleigh, UNC Boone, UNC Chapel Hill, and UNC Greenville, just like the Cal schools do.
The less time you spend being obsessed with the non-existant inferiority complex, the less often you’ll come off as an obnoxious elitist David. Just being honest.
MF’n D.O.B.A.
What I want to know is.....where in this thread are there questions posed to david? I didnt know anyone asked him any questions at all?
OUCH!
My UNC Chapel Hill co-workers say they went to “Chapel Hill”. Hmmm, very similar to simply saying “Charlotte”. I don’t think spelling out UNCC Charlotte is necessary. :wow:
From VCU golf tournament online leaderboard (btw we finished third)
Participating Teams:
[COLOR=DarkGreen][B]Charlotte [/B][/COLOR]
Indiana University
Kent State
Louisville, U. of
Maryland, U. of
[B][COLOR=Red]N. Car.- Greensboro
N. Car. Wilmington [/COLOR][/B]
Penn State U.
Richmond, Univ. of
Texas-Arlington
VCU
Wichita State Univ.
Wisconsin, U. of
Xavier University
[QUOTE=KTown49er;189892]Thanks for proving my point you horse’s ass!!
That’s the EXACT double standard elitist attitude I would expect from a Tarheel fan!
If you don’t know where the school “Charlotte” is…how about telling us where the school “Carolina” or “UNC” is…ass.
If it’s OK for YOUR school to call their athletic dept “Carolina” or “UNC” when your ACTUAL name is The University of North Carolina at a Chapel Hill, why can you not give OUR school that same respect?
Answer: Because you are an elitist Tarheel fan…aka: Horse’s Ass
Now…please do us all a favor and get the F@#$ off our board!!![/QUOTE]
clt endorses k-town.
[QUOTE=cltniners;189961]clt endorses k-town.[/QUOTE]
WOW, that might be bigger than being the #1 overall draft pick…
From VCU golf tournament online leaderboard (btw we finished third)Participating Teams:
[COLOR=DarkGreen]Charlotte [/COLOR]
Indiana University
Kent State
Louisville, U. of
Maryland, U. of
[COLOR=Red]N. Car.- Greensboro
N. Car. Wilmington [/COLOR]
Penn State U.
Richmond, Univ. of
Texas-Arlington
VCU
Wichita State Univ.
Wisconsin, U. of
Xavier University
This sums up the thread nicely.
clt says we need to unify on a few topics:
- Football
- Name Change
- Fighting new wal-marts in charlotte region-will cut down on unc-ch fans
- Helping norm the niner fight campus crime.
[QUOTE=cltniners;189961]clt endorses k-town.[/QUOTE]
Look out, the Revolution is now on! :49ers:
[QUOTE=Over40NINER;189917]Before you even ask, we all called it UNCC when I was there, but times do change.[/QUOTE]
It was always UNCC when I attended the University. My friends at the other state schools referred to them as App, State and Chapel Hill, not Carolina or UNC.
Today, if asked, I say I graduated from UNC Charlotte. I also proudly refer to the athletic teams as Charlotte. It is a real rub to me to see a trading card of a 49er athlete read that they attended “North Carolina.”
As for the eletism of those Chapel Hill graduates like yourself Mr. Poole, why don’t you say that you are a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, not a UNC or Carolina grad? I think you and many others would be upset if all of us here began saying we are UNC graduates (which technically we are).
Finally as I have pointed out numerous times on this board… the [URL=http://www.northcarolina.edu][B]University of North Carolina website[/B][/URL] refers to the institution in Chapel Hill as UNC-Chapel Hill (with a hyphen). No other school in the 16-campus system has a hyphen.
However, we welcome you with open arms to this board. Don’t expect a pass, we do not ever give those out when you have a differing viewpoint.
From what I can tell students shy away from saying they go to ‘UNCC’. Hell in my public speaking class my professor told us to never say ‘UNCC’. Sounds too much like a community college. We, as students, arnt paying all that tuition money to go to a community college.
Most of my friends and other students I have talked to all say Charlotte NOT UNCC, UNC-Charlotte or University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
One quick true story. Many years ago, maybe when I was in school at Carolina, Woody Durham went to Columbia to do a North Carolina-South Carolina football game. He came into the stadium and, without thinking, asked somebody “Can you tell me where the Carolina radio booth would be?” They gave him directions and when he got there, the Game****s football team was set up in there. It’s just what you’re used to.
As for the hyphen on the website and all that stuff, the deal is that if you went to school in Chapel Hill at UNC, you weren’t particularly obsessive about punctuation of the lack of it. If you said Carolina or Chapel Hill or UNC, people knew what you were talking about. The whole point of this “Charlotte for athletics” thing was because people outside the state didn’t know (or care about) the distinctions. One time, a UNC Charlotte baseball player (I believe it was baseball) got drafted and the AP’s list of draft picks mistakently referred to him as a UNC player. I think the folks in the Charlotte athletic department finally got tired of that and tried to forge their on athletic “brand.” And the only reason I bring it up all of the time is that I realize it gets a rise out UNCC fans, the same way some of you guys write unc-chapel hill or unc-ch in all lowercase and stuff like that. It’s just smack. I mean, really guys, it’s not like we’re talking about world peace or anything here.
[QUOTE=HP49er;189978]
Finally as I have pointed out numerous times on this board… the [URL=http://www.northcarolina.edu][B]University of North Carolina website[/B][/URL] refers to the institution in Chapel Hill as UNC-Chapel Hill (with a hyphen). No other school in the 16-campus system has a hyphen.
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So… unc-chapel hill is officially a “hyphen school”.
Like HP, Lefty, and myself have said, the chapel hill graduates we know call the school “chapel hill”. Why can’t you? The only ones that will be confused will be the Walmart fans.
BTW, why don’t you post more often? You may learn something. 
[QUOTE=davidpoole;189997]the same way some of you guys write unc-chapel hill or unc-ch in all lowercase and stuff like that.[/QUOTE]
I have absolutely no idea who does anything like that.
As for the eletism of those Chapel Hill graduates like yourself Mr. Poole, why don't you say that you are a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, not a UNC or Carolina grad? I think you and many others would be upset if all of us here began saying we are UNC graduates (which technically we are).Not that I am a turncoat or anything, but if you look at that map you showed and hold your cursor over UNC-Chapel Hill, it gives a short description of the university. On the second sentence it says "[B]UNC's[/B] academic offerings" so I mean even the system is against us on that one. I'm sure it doesnt help that a Chapel Hill grad is the president, but I'm just sayin. If we want to raise an argument over that, we need to take it to the head's of the system.
As for calling it Carolina, I think we are screwed. Popular usage is a hard thing to fight, especially when there is no organized effort to stop this and USC does the same thing. All we can do is distance ourself from them by changing our name to The University of Charlotte. This is the very reason why I was trying to start an organized effort to change our name like we have begun with CFI. If people would just support the effort with the same fervor as football, we would get our name changed in a few years.
As for calling it Carolina, I think we are screwed. Popular usage is a hard thing to fight, especially when there is no organized effort to stop this and USC does the same thing. All we can do is distance ourself from them by changing our name to The University of Charlotte. This is the very reason why I was trying to start an organized effort to change our name like we have begun with CFI. If people would just support the effort with the same fervor as football, we would get our name changed in a few years.
USC as in Carolina or Southern California? And you know, the name change will take several million dollars to undertake as well, and it is something that you will find few people willing to donate money to. It doesn’t provide much in return except degrees with an obsolete name. Know what I mean? With the football initiative, we get a football team. With the name change, we get nothing tangible.