[b]Charlotte 49ers[/b] [b]2012 record: [/b]N/A [b]Reason to care:[/b] The recruiting crystal ballHow does a program that has yet to play a snap garner even the slightest bit of attention from the big-money, BCS-backed programs of the ACC and SEC? Location, location, location.
“The Charlotte area has always been this kind of free-for-all recruiting war zone,” says a nearby ACC recruiting coordinator. “You look at all the five-star guys who have come out of there over the last 20 years. Chris Leak, Hakeem Nicks, Jadeveon Clowney, Mohamed Massaquoi, it goes on and on. It’s a crazy-good list. And they have always been scattered all over the place.”
Why? Because, despite being in a million-plus market, there has never been a hometown university football team to keep those kids in Charlotte. Now there will be. The 49ers are a long way from competing head-to-head with Georgia, Florida or the Triangle schools for talent, but the program’s construction curve has already been accelerated beyond its original slow-grow plan. It will plays its first-ever game Aug. 31 of this year and will join FBS-level Conference USA in 2015.
“Their new stadium is gorgeous, and Coach [Brad] Lambert proved during his time at Wake Forest that he can recruit with limited resources or without much history of success to sell,” former North Carolina coach Butch Davis explained to me this past fall, also pointing to Appalachian State’s decision to move up to FBS and East Carolina’s jump to the Big East.
“It will take a while to build that program, but anything that alters the balance of power when it comes to those kids coming out of Charlotte has a chance to really upset the apple cart down the road.”
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Charlotte 49ers
2012 record: N/A
Reason to care: The recruiting crystal ballHow does a program that has yet to play a snap garner even the slightest bit of attention from the big-money, BCS-backed programs of the ACC and SEC? Location, location, location.
“The Charlotte area has always been this kind of free-for-all recruiting war zone,” says a nearby ACC recruiting coordinator. “You look at all the five-star guys who have come out of there over the last 20 years. Chris Leak, Hakeem Nicks, Jadeveon Clowney, Mohamed Massaquoi, it goes on and on. It’s a crazy-good list. And they have always been scattered all over the place.”
Why? Because, despite being in a million-plus market, there has never been a hometown university football team to keep those kids in Charlotte. Now there will be. The 49ers are a long way from competing head-to-head with Georgia, Florida or the Triangle schools for talent, but the program’s construction curve has already been accelerated beyond its original slow-grow plan. It will plays its first-ever game Aug. 31 of this year and will join FBS-level Conference USA in 2015.
“Their new stadium is gorgeous, and Coach [Brad] Lambert proved during his time at Wake Forest that he can recruit with limited resources or without much history of success to sell,” former North Carolina coach Butch Davis explained to me this past fall, also pointing to Appalachian State’s decision to move up to FBS and East Carolina’s jump to the Big East.
"It will take a while to build that program, but anything that alters the balance of power when it comes to those kids coming out of Charlotte has a chance to really upset the apple cart down the road."
http://insider.espn.go.com/college-football/blog/_/name/mcgee_ncf_ryan/id/9125314/kansas-jayhawks-spring-practices-keep-eye-ncf#comment[/quote]
NICE!!!
Awesome!
Ready to upset a few apple carts. Good find
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Charlotte 49ers
2012 record: N/A
Reason to care: The recruiting crystal ballHow does a program that has yet to play a snap garner even the slightest bit of attention from the big-money, BCS-backed programs of the ACC and SEC? Location, location, location.
“The Charlotte area has always been this kind of free-for-all recruiting war zone,” says a nearby ACC recruiting coordinator. “You look at all the five-star guys who have come out of there over the last 20 years. Chris Leak, Hakeem Nicks, Jadeveon Clowney, Mohamed Massaquoi, it goes on and on. It’s a crazy-good list. And they have always been scattered all over the place.”
Why? Because, despite being in a million-plus market, there has never been a hometown university football team to keep those kids in Charlotte. Now there will be. The 49ers are a long way from competing head-to-head with Georgia, Florida or the Triangle schools for talent, but the program’s construction curve has already been accelerated beyond its original slow-grow plan. It will plays its first-ever game Aug. 31 of this year and will join FBS-level Conference USA in 2015.
“Their new stadium is gorgeous, and Coach [Brad] Lambert proved during his time at Wake Forest that he can recruit with limited resources or without much history of success to sell,” former North Carolina coach Butch Davis explained to me this past fall, also pointing to Appalachian State’s decision to move up to FBS and East Carolina’s jump to the Big East.
"It will take a while to build that program, but anything that alters the balance of power when it comes to those kids coming out of Charlotte has a chance to really upset the apple cart down the road."
Love it!
Well, if you can’t take the word of Butch Davis, then who can you trust?
This fits VERY well with what Wilson (from Rising) told me about Butch. A few years ago when Chapel Hill played at the bowl in Charlotte Wilson asked him on the air about The 49ers starting a team and would he think about his heels playing us. He gave some PC answer, but after the camera went off he was furious. Said there was nothing about Charlotte having a team that they were happy about and if they had had their way we would never have gotten a team.
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That’s funny, because we have never had even one UNC-chapel hill grad on this board that was opposed to us getting football.
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That’s funny, because we have never had even one UNC-chapel hill grad on this board that was opposed to us getting football.
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Let us become a threat and that will change.
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That’s funny, because we have never had even one UNC-chapel hill grad on this board that was opposed to us getting football.
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Let us become a threat and that will change.[/quote]
clt says we are a threat now.
Educators are opposed to UNCCH FB.
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That’s funny, because we have never had even one UNC-chapel hill grad on this board that was opposed to us getting football.
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Let us become a threat and that will change.[/quote]
clt says we are a threat now.[/quote]
Not really, I mean, they held a practice like what, 2 miles for our campus?
and you think that was coincidence, after having never done it before?
[quote=“919R, post:14, topic:27671”]and you think that was coincidence, after having never done it before?[/quote]You mean like App holding a practice down here now? 8)
At least App has the “courtesy” to do it way on the other side of town. I know they “said” they were going to Mallard Creek HS for one of their players, but "that’s too close Mother Fs! YOU’RE IN OUR SPACE BS!!!
Yes, you’ll notice this is their first time as well.
Yes, you’ll notice this is their first time as well.[/quote]
I’m not sure most of their fans have ever had a first time.
I mean seeing them practice in Charlotte, of course.