Sorry I consider 17600 pretty damn close to 20k and overall impressive for a school of less than 10k in undergrad enrollment and in a metro area like Myrtle Beach and a Relatively new program to winning during an ongoing pandemic be a team from Kansas that will have limited appeal to general fans. If you arenât impressed by what theyâve done with their crowd and field success then you and I just have different measuring sticks.
Quite a different situation than what we have.
My response was more to explain why the Kansas game was their highest crowd after the season they had last year during COVID. I know Coastal has a small student body which could explain attendance issues. I donât know, I am not a Coastal fan, donât know what their ticket prices are or how they market.
If youâre desiring to see them ârippedâ go on twitter and search âCoastal Attendanceâ and youâll find plenty.
So, now we give passes to schoolâs for âsmaller enrollmentâ numbersâŚgood to know.
Itâs not a pass. Itâs reality. They have less than 10K students and something close to 40k living alumni. In a town of less than 25k. They are small.
When you fill a stadium to basically twice your enrollment size in a metro such as Conway in a pandemic without a history of winning against a team that doesnât travel at all - yeah thats solid. In fact what they are doing is amazing. Hell they have a better all around program than we do. Football, baseball, basketballâŚ
Imagine if we could do the same and put 2 times our undergrad population in a stadium. Im not gonna rip them at all. Iâd like to shake their hand and ask how the hell have you done this.
Easy answer: lack of other similar entertainment options.
I thought this was about bigger conference viability? At some point raw #s matter, and it does seem a double standard to not hold them to it. Everything you said as a pass for their attendance is also grounds for saying their ceiling is limited.
I really only see a handful of programs who even have the potential to run an AAC level program in terms of $ and fans. And most of those, including us, still have to do work to get there. UAB is the closest thing to a lock, and they have a smaller budget than we do and the UAT hanging over them.
I think the AAC will need to make up its mind whether it wants to downsize its average programs profile, or take a risk to bring on programs with readily identifiable potential, and see if they can use the league to realize it like UCF did.
I think theyâll do the latter.
I do too NA. I think the question is the mix. Do they trade some of the potential for immediate performance. UAB gives them both - but then UTSA, us - give them potential but not immediate football power but App and Coastal while limited bring immediate performance - specifically in football. As I said earlier - if we go AAC I am fine leaving the limited programs behind us, but if we donât stick the landing I am fine being in a league with them.
I do think though the reality is the AAC is going to try and balance things out some. Coastal has not proven they can do this long term. App on the other hand has - even as a one trick pony and a limited upside, they offer the AAC a legit solid long performing football program while they roll the dice on us and some other schools with more long term potential.
My support for coastal here was just responding to why we get ripped for a small crowd they arenât.
I saw someone wearing a Mormons vs Mullets shirt at Wal-Mart the other day. Theyâre certainly creative on the coast.
Coastal has Joe Moglia (former CEO of tdameritrade). He was the head coach for coastal for many years, and still holds a position in their athletic department. I am sure he secure some of that wall street money for the program, and he personally just made a donation to go to their indoor practice facility. So there you go, itâs all about the $$$!
It makes natural sense that a coastal school would have whales of this size. I would hope that we could at least have some land sharks who enjoy making it more feasible for us to competitively represent the CLT landscape that we all SHARE.
THANKS Ms. Halton, et al. 
Thanks NAâŚyou got my point.
I honestly believe that this is why we canât have a medical school. Why we canât have a law school. This is why UNC is trying to move a business masters program into our territory. It is to make sure that UNC has the rich alumni base and not Charlotte. Richer alumni means more $$$ for UNC instead of Charlotte.
Nice pictures, nice views, nice concept and good arrangement. Iâm actually amaze seeing there is space for food service equipment at 11B. Thatâs rare to see in a stadium. It means the stadium is a standard one with many unexpected features
Not sure if this has been posted before:
This is coolâŚit really isâŚbut GD it lol. My heart stopped for a second and I got super excited that this was a virtual tour for expansion haha.
Might just be a big tent?
Theyâve had a big white tent there for a couple of seasons.
Well damn! I think youâre right!
They sure did get that lined up perfect to match the other 3.
clt can confirm it is a tent and you cannot smoke there,
