On thing I want to add.....Johnny Harris, a Chapel Hill grad spoke tonight, but almost brought a tear to my eye and really pumped every one up.I like that statement. If he goes public with that statement, it should help us pick up some of that hometown support we so desperately need.It was something to this effect.
āI went to school at Chapel Hill, but by god Charlotte is MY University now! And no matter where anyone in this room went to school, Charlotte should be YOU University too until we get this done!!ā
[QUOTE=Over40NINER;418973]I like that statement. If he goes public with that statement, it should help us pick up some of that hometown support we so desperately need.[/QUOTE]
There were news cameras there recording, so maybe you will see it on the newsā¦
From the timeline they handed out:Sept 15, 2009 ā FSL Sales Team Committee efforts concluded
October 15, 2009 ā Deadline to reach 5,000 FSLās sold
thanks!
October 15 gives us 6-7 weeks of college football to stir up the mood as well.
[QUOTE=UofC9er;418970]Will it be difficult to get to 5000 FSLās in 2 monthsā¦ absolutely. Is it impossibleā¦ NO. One question to the negative posters on this boardā¦ name one thing this University has undertaken that failed. Every single capital campaign over the past 60 years had doubled its goal.[/QUOTE]
I like the optimism, but those projects had the FULL support of the university administration, a full-throttle fund raising campaign, and probably were not held during the worst economic period since The Great Depression. We get no more than half-ass support from the university (not the Ath. Dept), almost no campaigning to this point, and of course, the economy sucks. It appears we are ramping up the efforts on the campaign front to those who have reneged on their commitment, but I wonder how many others will be reached.
It just pisses me off that we can clearly field an FCS team at a minimum likely for as long as needed, but we have set the whole shebang up to be in the Orange Bowl in 5 years.
[QUOTE=49RFootballNow;418941]The entire future of our athletics program has two months to live or die. More of the great foresight weāve come to expect from the Administration.
Mickie F***ing Mouse!
You canāt run a D-I program with NAIA level Athletics Dept.[/QUOTE]
Thats not an āAthletic Deptā determined date.
Thats not an "Athletic Dept" determined date.Who determined that date?
Good seeing alot of you guys, and it was def as good as any pep rally iāve been to!
I mentioned this in another thread and the shoutbox.
Why not guarantee FSL owners a discount on season tickets for a predermined period of time (perhaps forevder)? That gives potential buyers a little more incentive to buy a seat they can use 5 years from now.
[QUOTE=Over40NINER;418998]Who determined that date?[/QUOTE]
Thats the next board meeting and they will expect a report.
[QUOTE=X-49er;418991] It appears we are ramping up the efforts on the campaign front to those who have reneged on their commitment, but I wonder how many others will be reached. [/QUOTE]
There, sir, is the mystery of this entire effort.
FWIW, Iām sure I stand alone on this, but I donāt consider myself negative towards my school. I have my FSLs and talk about this to anyone who has even a casual interest in sports. But I do think this rollout, campaign or whatever its called couldāve started months ago. Still donāt understand, are people still calling those who backed off on their pledges? DAMN. There are many others in the area. Go get them.
It is not too late to save this effort, but I think much of the football campaign, so far, has led me to think football has just as good a chance of failing as succeeding.
Iām not backing off of my support, but I was emotionally excited last fall. Now it is, oh well, whatever.
[QUOTE=JoeSixPack;419009] Still donāt understand, are people still calling those who backed off on their pledges? DAMN. There are many others in the area. Go get them.
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The list of folks that committed but never paid up was said to be confidential, so I am assuming that the list given out is a new pool.
[QUOTE=JoeSixPack;419009]There, sir, is the mystery of this entire effort.
FWIW, Iām sure I stand alone on this, but I donāt consider myself negative towards my school. I have my FSLs and talk about this to anyone who has even a casual interest in sports. But I do think this rollout, campaign or whatever its called couldāve started months ago. Still donāt understand, are people still calling those who backed off on their pledges? DAMN. There are many others in the area. Go get them.
It is not too late to save this effort, but I think much of the football campaign, so far, has led me to think football has just as good a chance of failing as succeeding.
Iām not backing off of my support, but I was emotionally excited last fall. Now it is, oh well, whatever.[/QUOTE]
The campaign will be for both those who did not come through and for those that never made a commitment. It is important to reach out to people who have not followed through based on the fact that we did a crappy job of having option available (transferable, monthly plan) when FSL payments were first expected. Now that those details are set we need to reach out to everyone who has not come through one last time. In fact I have talked to a few people who made commitments, but then never received ANYTHING. So for that reason alone we need to contact all of them. With that said at no point in the meeting tonight did they say they were focusing on that list. They said that we all need to sell as many as we can to anyone we can - the only list we discussed was the one that shows who HAS paid on an FSL.
Iād really like to see you guys with a football program, but I gotta sayā¦at $ 1000 just for a āseat licenseā, especially at the FCS level, well thats a little steep. Actually itās way too steep.
Especially in a town with the NFL and NBA.
Our season ticket costs are only $ 120 and there is no seat license requirement. Say what you want, but with that revenue, large donor contributions and corporate sponserships, its been enough to pay for the program plus a 20,000 seat stadium that is sold out for our entire first year.
What Iāve really been hoping is that Charlotte would somehow find its way to the CAA. I donāt mean to be critical cause I think you all have a great school, but with the way this thing has been handled, you may end up with no football program at all.
[QUOTE=ODU1986;419017]Iād really like to see you guys with a football program, but I gotta sayā¦at $ 1000 just for a āseat licenseā, especially at the FCS level, well thats a little steep. Actually itās way too steep.
Especially in a town with the NFL and NBA.
Our season ticket costs are only $ 120 and there is no seat license requirement. Say what you want, but with that revenue, large donor contributions and corporate sponserships, its been enough to pay for the program plus a 20,000 seat stadium that is sold out for our entire first year.
What Iāve really been hoping is that Charlotte would somehow find its way to the CAA. I donāt mean to be critical cause I think you all have a great school, but with the way this thing has been handled, you may end up with no football program at all.[/QUOTE]
If we had a place to play IMO there would no be an FSL or at least not anything as high as $1,000. Getting a stadium built or renovating one is really driving the FSL need.
[QUOTE=ODU1986;419017]Iād really like to see you guys with a football program, but I gotta sayā¦at $ 1000 just for a āseat licenseā, especially at the FCS level, well thats a little steep. Actually itās way too steep.
Especially in a town with the NFL and NBA.
Our season ticket costs are only $ 120 and there is no seat license requirement. Say what you want, but with that revenue, large donor contributions and corporate sponserships, its been enough to pay for the program plus a 20,000 seat stadium that is sold out for our entire first year.
What Iāve really been hoping is that Charlotte would somehow find its way to the CAA. I donāt mean to be critical cause I think you all have a great school, but with the way this thing has been handled, you may end up with no football program at all.[/QUOTE]
The $300 per student football fee for ODU didnāt hurt either. Your school is about the same size as ours I think. That should generate a lot more cash than tickets, donations and sponsorships.
They spent 29 million restoring the stadium theyāll be playing in. Thatās more than weāre planning on spending to build one now.
If they can pay for it without a seating license requirement, why canāt we?
[QUOTE=ODU1986;419017]Iād really like to see you guys with a football program, but I gotta sayā¦at $ 1000 just for a āseat licenseā, especially at the FCS level, well thats a little steep. Actually itās way too steep.
Especially in a town with the NFL and NBA.
Our season ticket costs are only $ 120 and there is no seat license requirement. Say what you want, but with that revenue, large donor contributions and corporate sponserships, its been enough to pay for the program plus a 20,000 seat stadium that is sold out for our entire first year.
What Iāve really been hoping is that Charlotte would somehow find its way to the CAA. I donāt mean to be critical cause I think you all have a great school, but with the way this thing has been handled, you may end up with no football program at all.[/QUOTE]
Good to get an impartial viewpoint. Iāve thought the same thing about our ambitions all along. 20000 season tickets at $300 apiece for Season 1 tickets equals $6,000,000.00 in up-front revenue, which is more than the FSL money is raising. Folks would then have their tickets in hand and we would be a lot closer to a sellout than we are right now. $1,200 gets you 4 seats under that scenario, instead of 1.2 empty ones. The Panther model had to be followed though, and now weāre 3.2 million short of our goal and have alienated a large part of fanbase with the FSL campaign because they simply canāt afford it. The Chancellor was determined to go the BCS or bust route, and we are approaching the latter. The heavyweights in the 49er Club need to throw their weight around to make sure we have a football team if these FSLās donāt pan out.
[QUOTE=NinerWupAss;419012]The campaign will be for both those who did not come through and for those that never made a commitment. It is important to reach out to people who have not followed through based on the fact that we did a crappy job of having option available (transferable, monthly plan) when FSL payments were first expected. Now that those details are set we need to reach out to everyone who has not come through one last time. In fact I have talked to a few people who made commitments, but then never received ANYTHING. So for that reason alone we need to contact all of them. With that said at no point in the meeting tonight did they say they were focusing on that list. They said that we all need to sell as many as we can to anyone we can - the only list we discussed was the one that shows who HAS paid on an FSL.[/QUOTE]
Hope it works.
Iām just tired of wondering if this team Iām helping pay for will ever materialize.
I'm just tired of wondering if this team I'm helping pay for will ever materialize.
It was the cause of football that made me an author. The force with which it struck my mind and the dangerous condition the university appeared to me in, by courting an impossible and an unnatural reconciliation with those who were determined to reduce her, instead of striking out into the only line that could cement and save her --The Establishment of a Football Program-- made it impossible for me, feeling as I did, to be silent.
Football always appeared to me practicable and probable, provided the sentiment of the university administration could be formed and held to the object: and there is no instance in the world, where a people that had been so wedded to former habits of thinking were so effectually pervaded by the turns of all those who supported football, undiminished, through such a succession of good and ill fortune till they crowned it with succes, as there had been in the case for football.
But as the scenes of war appeared closed, and every man preparing for home and happier times, I therefore took my leave of the subject. I had most sincerely followed it from beginning to end, and through all its turns and windings: and in whatever form I may hereafter be in, I shall always feel an honest pride at the part I have taken and acted, and a gratitude to nature and providence for putting it in my power to be of some use to Charlotte and to mankind.
But to now not put football beyond the power of economic calumny is to throw the least reflection upon our honor. Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from littleness of soul, refuses to lend his hand only to injure it, contrives a wound it will never be in his power to heal. The end of the football movement would be to us, a source of endless misfortune.
So far as my endeavors can now go, they shall be directed to reconciliate our affections, reunite our interests, and draw and keep the mind of the university together; and when we take into view the great work which we have gone through, and feel, as we ought to feel, the just importance of it, we shall then see, that any indecent, personal dishonor to our own characters, as being injurious to our cause.
Something must be yielded up to make the whole secure. In this view of things we gain by what we give, and draw an annual interest greater than the capital. ā I ever feel myself hurt when I hear that football, that great palladium of our liberty and safety, has as great a chance at succeeding as it has in failing.
On football our great national character depends. It is this which must give us importance abroad and security at home. It is through this only that we are, or can be, nationally known in the world; Our great title is CHARLOTTE ā our inferior ones vary.
As we work together even harder to establish an inheritance for posterity, let that inheritance descend, with every mark of an honorable conveyance. The little it will cost, compared with the worth of the university, the greatness of the object, and the value of the national character, WILL be a profitable exchange.