Interesting, I appreciate you sharing your insight. Please post on the board more!
Like an earlier poster said you can’t really compare us to CH, as much as I hate them… oh my gosh do I hate them… they have super deep pockets that we will probably never match…for some time(crossing fingers for powerball), we should however, look to invest in our non rev coaches a little more, but, with starting football, two bball coach’s salaries, I’m just glad we have maintained all of our sports and will continue to add some with the women’s Title IX field hockey/ lacrosse/ swimming.
Charlotte is about to take off in a huge direction and is poised to be in a BCS type spotlight, most of us realize it is still a few years from that, but it’s so great to know we’re close, just like the days to kickoff is well below a 1000 now and closing in on 500’s!!! To see where we’ve grown from the year 2000 to now is pretty amazing.
Our mascot the “49er” and the reason it is our mascot defines us so well. It is pretty much states that we are an “under dog” and that’s what we are in almost every sense of the word(especially since we started in a basement). Our city’s newspaper won’t cover us, everyone said we would never get football, we are hated on by every fan in the ACC + App + ECU either from being ignorant, jealous, or just plain mean. No one outside the state of NC knows the difference between(or they just get really confused) UNC Charlotte, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC vs. UNCC, or get us confused with something else, but even though we have everything stacked against us it’s not that bad.
You know what, I kind of like the fact that we’re this way. Because we are more special for that, and it is all this “under dogness” that propels our athletes to prove themselves every time the take the court, track, pitch, field etc… So let’s come together as much as we can, because with stronger numbers and the more you show your support the further this place will go…
I don’t know about anyone else here, but I’m dreaming of a Charlotte vs. CH NCAA Soccer Title Game in Hoover Alabama, maybe there we can finally address this whole unc hyphen malarkey and get some new age attention on us and help drive a campaign to get us towards a clear separation from them…
GO NINERS!!! (sorry for tangents, oh and no way Hibbs is close to 100k IMO)