No Charlotte-Davidson game

spartyniner · August 10, 2008, 2:22pm

I guess it makes me feel a little bit better thàt davidson bailed and not us. But I am still pretty annoyed. Like it or not this was the only game that the avg clt area resident would have paid attention to so while davidson gets national attn in 3 separate tournaments before march, we will be playing the likes of youngstown state. Sweet.

BigTimeNiner · August 10, 2008, 3:01pm

Don’t know who is to blame here, but I do not blame Davidson for what they are doing.

This opportunity possibly only comes once in most coaches career.

Pre season top 25 and nationally televised tournaments is a big deal for all but the elite teams in basketball.

I will miss going to Davidson this year and I wish that this game would have been at Bobcats arena.

survivor45 · August 10, 2008, 3:45pm

Don't know who is to blame here, but I do not blame Davidson for what they are doing.
This opportunity possibly only comes once in most coaches career.

For the better part of 29 years, Charlotte provided Davidson with a quality home-and-home partner. How often do SoCon schools receive quality home-and-home partners in their gyms? I don’t remember the NCAA committee saying, “Oooh! Davidson!” in the 90s-00s when we were building up our tournament resumes. But we still split the home/away games, though.

So now, with Curry, Davidson has finally turned into a team that could actually benefit us. So what do they do? They accept an invite to a tournament on the presumed date and suddenly we’re looked upon as a 2nd-rate opponent.

Screw 'em. I hope they wallow in obscurity after Curry leaves. If they don’t care about continuing the series — the why the hell should we?

system · August 10, 2008, 3:49pm

Yes, screw em, but if we were in the same position, we would probably do the same thing.

zerogeneticsdc · August 10, 2008, 5:05pm

Two things -

Its apparent that we operated on the date that was agreed on. McKillop IMO should have honored that date, but he didnt. Do I blaim him? No - he needs to ride the shirt tail of his good luck and fortune of actually pulling in a player like steph curry (bc the kid wasnt recruited by anyone else).

Also - though 6 months ago when I was still a bit high on the fact that we destroyed a very good davidson team with 8 nube’s and 1 returning starter - I totally disagree with playing in Bobcats arena with these guys on a regular basis. Look - Davidson is good now because of Curry, but they will be crap again when he’s gone. Why would we play neutral court every year when we can go into their house and destroy them - at least that way it will help our RPI a little bit when they are doing nothing more than rolling through the SoCon like its nothing (because it is just that, NOTHING).

The fact that we arent playing them this year sucks - I was looking forward to getting to travel as a fan to more than one place this year. Other than that and the RPI boost for owning them again, I really don’t care. I’m looking more forward to playing Clemson and X. I hope we replace these guys with someone decent. We desperately need to add to our strength of schedule IMO. I’m also hesitant to go much after the 10th for a date simply because it seems like teams get a little lazy over the christmas holiday - hence the scheduling of the two crap teams on our schedule.

Mr_Bojangles · August 10, 2008, 9:47pm

[QUOTE=jcl49er;332963]In honor of the Olympics, you get the gold medal in Sugar Coating.

[/QUOTE]

In honor of the Olympics, Bob McKillop and the High School Musical Cats get the gold medal in the backstroke.

Why should we have to juggle our schedule around?? We agreed on the set date, a great opportunity came along for them, and they backed out. So why don’t they juggle their schedule a bit. We shouldn’t be the ones to make any sacrifices.

49er1 · August 10, 2008, 10:54pm

[QUOTE=Ruckus42;332940]Davidson had the best team in their history last year and didn’t beat us.

They don’t want to play us!![/QUOTE]

I LOVE this statement. I may make it my signature statement.

hootie · August 10, 2008, 11:19pm

They don’t want to play us- if they lose it’s a blemish to them with Curry coming off the year they had.

Problem is, they are not going to be as good this year as last. They are going to miss the hell out of Richards and they don’t seem to realize it.

Next problem is this- Curry’s gone after this year and they’ll be bad for a couple of years when we are having our best team in years. I’d schedule them and drill them by 40 in their own house.

ninerball49 · August 10, 2008, 11:49pm

This sucks. It was a win on the road against a team that some of those less informed hold in high regard…and most of us would have been there, rubbing it in their faces…again. Oh well. At least we went out on a good note…hell I would have even taken going out after the year before considering our overall record against them…it’s just a shame…we’re giving away free wins

survivor45 · August 11, 2008, 1:54am

Next problem is this- Curry's gone after this year and they'll be bad for a couple of years when we are having our best team in years. I'd schedule them and drill them by 40 in their own house.

Why?

We already owned Davidson during their 12-17 years. We gave their school equal OOC scheduling treatment as Southern Illinois, Alabama, Indiana, Miami, Va Tech, and South Carolina.

After Curry is gone - could you blame Charlotte for never bothering to sked a Davidson road game again? There are plenty of NC schools that would happily allow Charlotte to drill them by 40 in their own gym.

HP49er · August 11, 2008, 2:34am

[QUOTE=survivor45;332998]We already owned Davidson during their 12-17 years. We gave their school equal OOC scheduling treatment as Southern Illinois, Alabama, Indiana, Miami, Va Tech, and South Carolina.[/QUOTE]
Over the last 10 seasons Charlotte was one of Davidson’s top 5 RPI opponents [SIZE=2][B]eight[/B][/SIZE] times. The Wildcats were one of Charlotte’s top 5 RPI opponents only in the past [SIZE=2][B]two[/B][/SIZE] seasons.

They may not need “Concrete” to help their RPI this season, but they will once Curry is history in Belk Arena.

[SIZE=2][B][U]1998-1999[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 22-10, RPI 19, SOS 18, highlights: UNC-Chapel Hill (7), Cincinnati (10), Miami, FL (11), Louisville (22), Kent State (23)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 13-11, RPI 146, SOS 161, highlights: Duke (1), [B][COLOR=green]Charlotte[/COLOR][/B] (19), College of Charleston (33), Wake Forest (60), Appalachian State (86)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2][B][U]1999-2000[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 17-15, RPI 57, SOS 14, highlights: Cincinnati (1), Tulsa (21), DePaul (30), Louisville (29), Saint Louis (33)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 12-13, RPI 171, SOS 163, highlights: Duke (2), Stanford (9), [B][COLOR=green]Charlotte[/COLOR][/B] (57), Wake Forest (58), California (71)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2][B][U]2000-2001[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 21-10, RPI 48, SOS 77, highlights: Indiana (16), Cincinnati (31), Southern Mississippi (53), South Carolina (60), Texas El Paso (62)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 12-17, RPI 225, SOS 218, highlights: Duke (1), Georgia Tech (39), [B][COLOR=green]Charlotte[/COLOR][/B] (48), Santa Clara (83), College of Charleston (92)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2][B][U]2001-2002[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 18-11, RPI 35, SOS 16, highlights: Cincinnati (3), Indiana (13), Miami, FL (15), Florida (16), Marquette (22)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 18-9, RPI 80, SOS 134, highlights: Duke (4), [B][COLOR=green]Charlotte[/COLOR][/B] (35), Pennsylvania (41), Georgia Tech (82), Saint Bonaventure (84)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2][B][U]2002-2003[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 13-16, RPI 95, SOS 41, highlights: Marquette (10), Louisville (11), Cincinnati (29), Southern Illinois (34), Colorado (46)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 14-10, RPI 155, SOS 224, highlights: Arizona (2), Duke (12), UNC-Chapel Hill (52), College of Charleston (67), Florida State (81)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2][B][U]2003-2004[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 21-8, RPI 34, SOS 58, highlights: Cincinnati (11), Syracuse (14), Louisville (24), Southern Illinois (25), Alabama (26)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 14-12, RPI 118, SOS 126, highlights: Duke (1), UNC-Chapel Hill (19), Seton Hall (28), Texas Tech (30), [B][COLOR=green]Charlotte[/COLOR][/B] (34)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2][B][U]2004-2005[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 21-7, RPI 30, SOS 99, highlights: Louisville (12), Alabama (18), Cincinnati (23), Louisiana Lafayette (47), Alabama Birmingham (49)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 18-8, RPI 78, SOS 143, highlights: Duke (4), [B][COLOR=green]Charlotte[/COLOR][/B] (30), Saint Joseph’s (56), Missouri (72), Georgetown (77)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2][B][U]2005-2006[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 18-12, RPI 104, SOS 126, highlights: Indiana (34), George Washington (37), Saint Joseph’s (43), Rutgers (75), Xavier (77)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 17-10, RPI 94, SOS 162, highlights: Duke (1), UNC-Chapel Hill (12), Syracuse (17), Saint Joseph’s (43), [B][COLOR=green]Charlotte[/COLOR][/B] (104)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2][B][U]2006-2007[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 14-16, RPI 146, SOS 109, highlights: Indiana (28), Xavier (33), [B][COLOR=Red]Davidson[/COLOR][/B] (49), Syracuse (50), Massachusetts (61)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 27-4, RPI 49, SOS 198, highlights: Duke (15), Michigan (54), Appalachian State (62), Missouri (93), Ohio (105)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2][B][U]2007-2008[/U][/B]
[B]Charlotte[/B] - 20-13, RPI 69, SOS 64, Xavier (9), Clemson (19), [B][COLOR=red]Davidson[/COLOR][/B] (31), Saint Joseph’s (44), Temple (47)
[B]Davidson[/B] - 25-6, RPI 31, SOS 129, highlights: UNC-Chapel Hill (1), UCLA (4), Duke (7), [B][COLOR=Green]Charlotte[/COLOR][/B] (69), NC State (104)[/SIZE]

[B][I]Only games against Division I teams are counted in the teams’ records.[/I]
Source: Ken Pomeroy[/B]

system · August 11, 2008, 2:50am

[QUOTE=HP49er;333003]Over the last 10 seasons Charlotte was one of Davidson’s top 5 RPI opponents [SIZE=2][B]eight[/B][/SIZE] times. The Wildcats were one of Charlotte’s top 5 RPI opponents only in the past [SIZE=2][B]two[/B][/SIZE] seasons.