So, my fellow students and I have often had conversations with each other about our inability to interact with important pieces of our school’s history. While other schoACCols seem to have their athletic history regurgitated once every year, ours is often impossible to access in any meaningful way through purely individual research.
What can we do about this? Well, this site provides a gold mine (haha) of information, both important and anecdotal, regarding pretty much every important sports-related moment in our school’s history…it just needs to be organized. So I am proposing a new forum section called Niner History 1101 in which students ask those who frequent the board for THEIR take on pivotal moments, games, players, etc. I know for a fact that the alums on this board love talking about this sort of stuff because I’ve seen it.
Here’s the part that EVERYONE will benefit from, not just the students. In those cases where video of relevant games is attainable, I will personally set up torrents for those videos so that everyone on the site can download them and watch them for themselves.
So there’s my idea. It’ll allow our students to become more knowledgeable about Charlotte’s past and our alums a chance to reminisce, plus multimedia for everyone. But it can really only work if it’s something that other board members are interested in. So if you’ve got some video you’d like shared, PM me and let me know. Otherwise, post in THIS thread and tell me if you support this. If I get enough…support, we’ll give it a shot. If not, don’t say we never tried.
Good idea. you'd just have to get the word out to the general student population.
Right now, I’m just trying to get the word out to NNN. If we get this rolling, THEN we move in that direction. We need more people on board than me and Noah, although Noah is a fine fellow boarder.
Seriously, this is a grand idea. Folks like Over are beginning to lose their memory and someone needs to tap that onion while they can.
For the record, here’s how I’m envisioning each thread. The OP will do the basic research, get together what articles or photos are easily available. That stuff shouldn’t have to be done by the alums. Their job is to fill in those gaps with what it was actually like to be there or who the person actually was, apart from the box scores or cliche post-game quotes. I don’t want anyone to just say “Hey, tell me about Cornbread” without offering any information themselves. That would be lazy. And no one can be lazy on the Internet!
[QUOTE=Jersey Niner32;394877]Whoa there man…A 4000 level class is a lot work
-But I’ll make an exception for Niner History :shades:[/QUOTE]
Should be a required course for graduation. But I’d settle for 101-49.
Folks like Over are beginning to lose their memory
I need some help with my memory. Who's that Davidson player that likes to eat at Waffle House? And who's that well-behaved basketball player with the sore toe?
Great idea. Maybe somewhere down the road we could pass this on the the University as a required freshman course. HP and Over would be the professors of course.
I am so in, that I can’t find my way back out…
This really should be a freshman class though… at Bama, according to my cousin, all freshman have a class that is basically the history of Alabama athletics (mostly football) in which they learn not only the history of the athletics programs but the fight song, alma mater, and other cheers/songs and when they are done and when they are not done.
I am also a fan, there must be hours of athletics video hiding on campus, that need to be digitized, a NinerTube would be fitting, plus all the fan videos.