https://twitter.com/Hunter_Bailey45/status/1704464895536746512
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Very good insight on Niner football. Might the best episode theyāve ever done.
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Agreed.
And in case anyone missed it, Biff said that Bradley had a death in the family, and has been working through it. Think he wanted to keep it private. Very tough thing to go through. I hope he can find some positivity by getting back on the field.
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I like Inside the Mine-----straight news. Not a bunch of blah, blah, blah,.
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Seemed as good of a place as any:
https://twitter.com/Hunter_Bailey45/status/1709602690743902241
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Great episode, would love to hear peopleās thoughts
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Couldnāt make it past the start. It was Judyās visionā¦. Total bull shit and revisionist history. Turned it off right there.
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Charlotte starting football was a huge milestone for me. I remember tearing up walking up the brick path into the stadium on 8/31/13. That said I look forward to the day that starting football isnāt the only football story we have to tell.
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clt asks who said that? karen?
Fwiw they had a lady from the student football movement and Rodney Graves on afterwards. I think 1/3 of the story being told by the admin of the school is fair. But, I trust your word over theirās, NWA.
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The only part that wasnāt grass roots (started by NNN posters), was the involvement of a certain ex banking CEO once the movement had some real energy. That and whichever stuffy old fart from the Triangle (Spangler?) it was that told us that if students wanted football they could attend NC State (boy did that backfire - and Tom Sorensen wrote a kickass op ed about it). All of the rest was organic, homegrown grass roots by people supremely passionate about the cause. Better Niner fans than I will ever be.
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What aggravates me the most is the school is so worried about Judy being painted in a positive light they ignore one of the best stories in college athletics. Itās infuriating.
I love HotRod, but Rodney wasnāt even the country when the football Push got going, he was in Japan and the student side was entirely male at the start.
Any talk about football start without Jim Duncan being involved canāt be taken seriously.
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FWIW, Spangler was from Charlotte and pretty much a lifelong Charlottean.
Yes but like many people with money in Charlotte his priority was Chapel Hill. He went to Harvard as well. Not exactly a man of the people.
Compared to some of our present day billionaires, Spangler comes off pretty well. But yes, as a Chapel Hill grad he did some things through a certain blue perspective. And yet, didnāt accept a salary during his tenure as UNC prez, instead donating it to schools around the system. As one of his obits observed, a man of contrasts.