Driving back from g-boring during 3rd quarter heard the #2 commentator call us North CarolinaâŚ
I was very impressed with the ESPNU broadcast. They referred to us as simply âCharlotteâ, âCharlotte 49ersâ, â49ersâ or âNinersâ and even dropped âNiner Nationâ in there a few times. There were no issues with the graphics and at one point I even noticed the old Norm logo (my signature) pop up! I wonder if we are working on slowly working that graphic identity back in some sort of secondary form.
I thought the same thing, but then watching the WMU-Sparty game Stateâs old-school Sparty outline logo popped up in the same spot. Maybe ESPN is just putting âthrowbackâ logos in that spot for some reason?
Facebook comment on Observerâs page about that article linked above. I didnât know to laugh or cry.
âItâs no different in any other state. We are under the UNC system. We are the UNC chapel hill system at CharlotteâŚmake sense. To become the University of Charlotte we would have to leave the UNC system.â
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153213247980318&id=42580340317&refid=7&ft=qid.6191128025979528481%3Amf_story_key.-673596986926137759%3AeligibleForSeeFirstBumping.&tn=%2As
[quote=âemf, post:1864, topic:12347â]Facebook comment on Observerâs page about that article linked above. I didnât know to laugh or cry.
âItâs no different in any other state. We are under the UNC system. We are the UNC chapel hill system at CharlotteâŚmake sense. To become the University of Charlotte we would have to leave the UNC system.â
[quote=â4ever niner, post:1865, topic:12347â][quote=âemf, post:1864, topic:12347â]Facebook comment on Observerâs page about that article linked above. I didnât know to laugh or cry.
âItâs no different in any other state. We are under the UNC system. We are the UNC chapel hill system at CharlotteâŚmake sense. To become the University of Charlotte we would have to leave the UNC system.â
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153213247980318&id=42580340317&refid=7&ft=qid.6191128025979528481%3Amf_story_key.-673596986926137759%3AeligibleForSeeFirstBumping.&tn=%2As[/quote] Cry.[/quote]
You can see how difficult the name change will be based on the responses in that thread. A lot of alums have an emotional attachment to âUNCCâ and others like the association / confusion with Chapel Hill. I did like the one comment that a name change would cause alums to become disconnected; theyâre already disconnected.
For posterity, the scoreboard at our first FBS game at Georgia State said UNC-C before they changed it to CHAR.[/quote]
I thought they changed it to â49ersâ.
For posterity, the scoreboard at our first FBS game at Georgia State said UNC-C before they changed it to CHAR.[/quote]
I thought they changed it to â49ersâ.[/quote]they did
For posterity, the scoreboard at our first FBS game at Georgia State said UNC-C before they changed it to CHAR.[/quote]
I thought they changed it to â49ersâ.[/quote]they did[/quote]
Hereâs a pic of CHAR after theyâd changed it from UNC-C https://mobile.twitter.com/BobbyRosinski/status/639860546439901184/photo/1
Youâd think this would be routine stuff communicated long before we entered the building, what to put on the scoreboard, etc.
[quote=âemf, post:1866, topic:12347â][quote=â4ever niner, post:1865, topic:12347â][quote=âemf, post:1864, topic:12347â]Facebook comment on Observerâs page about that article linked above. I didnât know to laugh or cry.
âItâs no different in any other state. We are under the UNC system. We are the UNC chapel hill system at CharlotteâŚmake sense. To become the University of Charlotte we would have to leave the UNC system.â
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153213247980318&id=42580340317&refid=7&ft=qid.6191128025979528481%3Amf_story_key.-673596986926137759%3AeligibleForSeeFirstBumping.&tn=%2As[/quote] Cry.[/quote]
You can see how difficult the name change will be based on the responses in that thread. A lot of alums have an emotional attachment to âUNCCâ and others like the association / confusion with Chapel Hill. I did like the one comment that a name change would cause alums to become disconnected; theyâre already disconnected.[/quote]
So true.
Iâm sorry but if you havenât stepped on campus since you graduated in 1996, and have lived in the region ever since, then your opinion should not matter. âDONâT TAKE MY UNCC AWAY DER DER DER!!! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!â
[quote=âSteauA, post:1870, topic:12347â][quote=âemf, post:1866, topic:12347â][quote=â4ever niner, post:1865, topic:12347â][quote=âemf, post:1864, topic:12347â]Facebook comment on Observerâs page about that article linked above. I didnât know to laugh or cry.
âItâs no different in any other state. We are under the UNC system. We are the UNC chapel hill system at CharlotteâŚmake sense. To become the University of Charlotte we would have to leave the UNC system.â
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153213247980318&id=42580340317&refid=7&ft=qid.6191128025979528481%3Amf_story_key.-673596986926137759%3AeligibleForSeeFirstBumping.&tn=%2As[/quote] Cry.[/quote]
You can see how difficult the name change will be based on the responses in that thread. A lot of alums have an emotional attachment to âUNCCâ and others like the association / confusion with Chapel Hill. I did like the one comment that a name change would cause alums to become disconnected; theyâre already disconnected.[/quote]
So true.
Iâm sorry but if you havenât stepped on campus since you graduated in 1996, and have lived in the region ever since, then your opinion should not matter. âDONâT TAKE MY UNCC AWAY DER DER DER!!! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!â[/quote]
Also depends on who is doing the commenting. The first guy to comment doesnât appear to even be an alum. Heâs opinion should not be considered at all. Another guyâs comment appears to be from someone who got his graduate degree at Charlotte. His loyalty is probably else where. His opinion shouldnât be considered either.
Iâve always wished there was a way to figure out from those who are against a name change, which team/school do they most root for. I suspect the number who actually root for Charlotte is extremely low. If thatâs the case their opinionâs really shouldnât matter. That proves they really donât have the best interest for the school.
Well, I suggest we should comment and let these idiots know how many of us are out there that do want a name change. Let 'em have it. Open their eyes.
University of Charlotte
[quote=âninereast, post:1873, topic:12347â]University of Charlotte[/quote] +1
Someone did make a good point in those comments though that the only people that really want the name change usually have a deep affiliation with athletics. I think most of the general school population doesnât have as much of an aversion to anything/all things Chapel Hill.
One huge hurdle to a name change is the technical side of things. One of the comments referred to the universityâs domain name (uncc.edu), suggesting that itâs trivial to just change it if we didnât want to promote âUNCCâ. Universities are only allowed one dot-edu domain name. If you want to change the domain name, you have 6 months, with a possible additional 6 months on request, to migrate from one domain to another. This would mean reconfiguring every computer on campus, updating everyoneâs email address and notifying their contacts of the change, updating lots of code and scripts and databases, updating all the links in the universityâs websites (around 400 sites), updating all the electronic documents, updating all the stationary and business cards and other dead tree media, etc. So, even after spending millions of dollars and expending tens of thousands of work hours changing everything, after the domain name switches, youâre going to have thousands of emails bouncing daily and have a huge smoking crater in the WWW of the 20 yearsâ worth of external links to *.uncc.edu with no way of forwarding those bad emails or links. Think of all the professorâs citations, email addresses in publications that would break, etc. Iâm not sure how you argue the benefits of a name change with that much downside, plus adding in the philosophical differences in the name change itself.
Probably the most we can hope for in the next 10 years is a branding change like Virginia Tech / Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The people that want âUNCâ on their diploma are appeased, but it gets us further away from Chapel Hill in daily conversation and unifies Athletics and Academics. Still going to be a struggle to convince the locals to stop saying âUNCCâ no matter what, though.
Also, there are those that say that âUniversity of Charlotteâ suggests that weâre a city-funded school. The name would probably have to be in line with the other city-oriented schools in the System and be âCharlotte State Universityâ. Like Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, and Winston-Salem.
[quote=âemf, post:1876, topic:12347â]One huge hurdle to a name change is the technical side of things. One of the comments referred to the universityâs domain name (uncc.edu), suggesting that itâs trivial to just change it if we didnât want to promote âUNCCâ. Universities are only allowed one dot-edu domain name. If you want to change the domain name, you have 6 months, with a possible additional 6 months on request, to migrate from one domain to another. This would mean reconfiguring every computer on campus, updating everyoneâs email address and notifying their contacts of the change, updating lots of code and scripts and databases, updating all the links in the universityâs websites (around 400 sites), updating all the electronic documents, updating all the stationary and business cards and other dead tree media, etc. So, even after spending millions of dollars and expending tens of thousands of work hours changing everything, after the domain name switches, youâre going to have thousands of emails bouncing daily and have a huge smoking crater in the WWW of the 20 yearsâ worth of external links to *.uncc.edu with no way of forwarding those bad emails or links. Think of all the professorâs citations, email addresses in publications that would break, etc. Iâm not sure how you argue the benefits of a name change with that much downside, plus adding in the philosophical differences in the name change itself.
Probably the most we can hope for in the next 10 years is a branding change like Virginia Tech / Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The people that want âUNCâ on their diploma are appeased, but it gets us further away from Chapel Hill in daily conversation and unifies Athletics and Academics. Still going to be a struggle to convince the locals to stop saying âUNCCâ no matter what, though.
Also, there are those that say that âUniversity of Charlotteâ suggests that weâre a city-funded school. The name would probably have to be in line with the other city-oriented schools in the System and be âCharlotte State Universityâ. Like Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, and Winston-Salem.[/quote]
Good points. I am 100% ok with rebrading and going by Charlotte State is ok in my book.
University of the Carolinaâs
or
Carolina U
(We could call ourselves âCarolinaâ)
[quote=âNinerWupAss, post:1877, topic:12347â][quote=âemf, post:1876, topic:12347â]One huge hurdle to a name change is the technical side of things. One of the comments referred to the universityâs domain name (uncc.edu), suggesting that itâs trivial to just change it if we didnât want to promote âUNCCâ. Universities are only allowed one dot-edu domain name. If you want to change the domain name, you have 6 months, with a possible additional 6 months on request, to migrate from one domain to another. This would mean reconfiguring every computer on campus, updating everyoneâs email address and notifying their contacts of the change, updating lots of code and scripts and databases, updating all the links in the universityâs websites (around 400 sites), updating all the electronic documents, updating all the stationary and business cards and other dead tree media, etc. So, even after spending millions of dollars and expending tens of thousands of work hours changing everything, after the domain name switches, youâre going to have thousands of emails bouncing daily and have a huge smoking crater in the WWW of the 20 yearsâ worth of external links to *.uncc.edu with no way of forwarding those bad emails or links. Think of all the professorâs citations, email addresses in publications that would break, etc. Iâm not sure how you argue the benefits of a name change with that much downside, plus adding in the philosophical differences in the name change itself.
Probably the most we can hope for in the next 10 years is a branding change like Virginia Tech / Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The people that want âUNCâ on their diploma are appeased, but it gets us further away from Chapel Hill in daily conversation and unifies Athletics and Academics. Still going to be a struggle to convince the locals to stop saying âUNCCâ no matter what, though.
Also, there are those that say that âUniversity of Charlotteâ suggests that weâre a city-funded school. The name would probably have to be in line with the other city-oriented schools in the System and be âCharlotte State Universityâ. Like Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, and Winston-Salem.[/quote]
Good points. I am 100% ok with rebrading and going by Charlotte State is ok in my book.[/quote]Agreed, it is a monumental task to do the things laid out (thanks btw) by EMF, rebranding is OK by me as well.
[quote=âNinerWupAss, post:1877, topic:12347â][quote=âemf, post:1876, topic:12347â]One huge hurdle to a name change is the technical side of things. One of the comments referred to the universityâs domain name (uncc.edu), suggesting that itâs trivial to just change it if we didnât want to promote âUNCCâ. Universities are only allowed one dot-edu domain name. If you want to change the domain name, you have 6 months, with a possible additional 6 months on request, to migrate from one domain to another. This would mean reconfiguring every computer on campus, updating everyoneâs email address and notifying their contacts of the change, updating lots of code and scripts and databases, updating all the links in the universityâs websites (around 400 sites), updating all the electronic documents, updating all the stationary and business cards and other dead tree media, etc. So, even after spending millions of dollars and expending tens of thousands of work hours changing everything, after the domain name switches, youâre going to have thousands of emails bouncing daily and have a huge smoking crater in the WWW of the 20 yearsâ worth of external links to *.uncc.edu with no way of forwarding those bad emails or links. Think of all the professorâs citations, email addresses in publications that would break, etc. Iâm not sure how you argue the benefits of a name change with that much downside, plus adding in the philosophical differences in the name change itself.
Probably the most we can hope for in the next 10 years is a branding change like Virginia Tech / Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The people that want âUNCâ on their diploma are appeased, but it gets us further away from Chapel Hill in daily conversation and unifies Athletics and Academics. Still going to be a struggle to convince the locals to stop saying âUNCCâ no matter what, though.
Also, there are those that say that âUniversity of Charlotteâ suggests that weâre a city-funded school. The name would probably have to be in line with the other city-oriented schools in the System and be âCharlotte State Universityâ. Like Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, and Winston-Salem.[/quote]
Good points. I am 100% ok with rebrading and going by Charlotte State is ok in my book.[/quote]
Charlotte State University is fine by me.
University of Charlotte is okay too.
Hell, UNCC is okay in my book. Iâm just sick of having to support two different brands, it simply isnât working.
We have football now, the biggest tool of brand awareness a college not named Tufts, Wheaton, Harvard, or Yale can have. We are wasting that tool by flying it under a different brand.
The flip side to that is that with football carrying the same brand as the university, many of the issues that caused the change from UNCC to just âCharlotteâ on the athletic front could be alleviated and reversed much more easily.
Iâve said it a hundred times and Iâll say it a hundred times again⌠I donât really care what we call ourselves, Iâm just ready for us to get out of our own way and settle on a single brand. Weâre shooting ourselves in the foot right now.