The O Coverage

[quote=“Chipper, post:20, topic:23501”]Would you learn some f***ing grammar dumbass? How the hell do some of you expect to succeed with your piss poor communication skills? I’m serious. Learn the proper grammatical skills and you will be one up on your competition because no one currently in college seems to understand.

I’m doing you a favor by making this suggestion. I hope you are smart enough to take my advice and not foolish enough to reject it.[/quote]

This is an interwebs message board, calm down.

For those of you out of my circle or those in who don’t know yet I’ spending the summer working in College Station, Texas. I have been here two and half weeks, and haven’t read a newspaper once, but I know GD sure that the Texas A&M Aggies are #1 here.

I agree that observer coverage sucks, but blaming that for our identity problems assumes that every dumb hick in the Carolinas with an O scrip reads every sports article every day, but they don’t. They get their newspaper, walk back up the stairs into the trailer, skim for tarHOLE articles and read it to the best of their ability. The O is more than likely ran by bitter 90 year olds, but back in the day they were bitter 25 year olds who were tarHOLE fans.

We are a 64 year old school who’s best tradition, sadly, is TheNinerAlchemists Niner Mobile. Texas A&M is spewing tradition and heritage in every imaginable direction and that’s what connects people to a school, not damn newspaper articles. I just as much as anyone here wants that 49er spirit to engulf The Queen City, but the path to that isn’t whining(and don’t call it anything more than that) about newspaper coverage on a messageboard. The way to reach pull in alums and students isn’t always through athletics and hardly ever through a newspaper. I know that we will have football in 2013 because of this messageboard, but that can’t be the only tangible thing to come out of this place if you want to strike a chord with the city. Find tradition in our school and celebrate, find an ignored tradition and reach out to other alum with it. 49erAlumnus in the last year has created so much in potential tradition that will only grown if handled correctly. It’s gonna be a while before many of the bitter 90 year olds are people who went to Charlotte and we also need to learn to deal with that.

Also, I love how Aggies refer to the Longhorns as TU because “They are just another Texas university”, So I am abandoning the uncch abbreviation for NCU, because We Are Charlotte and they are just another North Carolina university.

[quote=“itsbraille49, post:22, topic:23501”]For those of you out of my circle or those in who don’t know yet I’ spending the summer working in College Station, Texas. I have been here two and half weeks, and haven’t read a newspaper once, but I know GD sure that the Texas A&M Aggies are #1 here.

I agree that observer coverage sucks, but blaming that for our identity problems assumes that every dumb hick in the Carolinas with an O scrip reads every sports article every day, but they don’t. They get their newspaper, walk back up the stairs into the trailer, skim for tarHOLE articles and read it to the best of their ability. The O is more than likely ran by bitter 90 year olds, but back in the day they were bitter 25 year olds who were tarHOLE fans.

We are a 64 year old school who’s best tradition, sadly, is TheNinerAlchemists Niner Mobile. Texas A&M is spewing tradition and heritage in every imaginable direction and that’s what connects people to a school, not damn newspaper articles. I just as much as anyone here wants that 49er spirit to engulf The Queen City, but the path to that isn’t whining(and don’t call it anything more than that) about newspaper coverage on a messageboard. The way to reach pull in alums and students isn’t always through athletics and hardly ever through a newspaper. I know that we will have football in 2013 because of this messageboard, but that can’t be the only tangible thing to come out of this place if you want to strike a chord with the city. Find tradition in our school and celebrate, find an ignored tradition and reach out to other alum with it. 49erAlumnus in the last year has created so much in potential tradition that will only grown if handled correctly. It’s gonna be a while before many of the bitter 90 year olds are people who went to Charlotte and we also need to learn to deal with that.

Also, I love how Aggies refer to the Longhorns as TU because “They are just another Texas university”, So I am abandoning the uncch abbreviation for NCU, because We Are Charlotte and they are just another North Carolina university.[/quote]

good post

I LOVE that.

I’m down with they are NCU.

And how do we promote our traditions, braille?

[quote=“stonecoldken, post:25, topic:23501”]I’m down with they are NCU.

And how do we promote our traditions, braille?[/quote]

Hot chicks and beer.

[quote=“J Felt, post:26, topic:23501”][quote=“stonecoldken, post:25, topic:23501”]I’m down with they are NCU.

And how do we promote our traditions, braille?[/quote]

Hot chicks and beer and Bojangles.[/quote]

fixed

I’ve talked to many people in the AD and friends of the program about this. You know why the big schools have such strong support and pride rooted in all this tradition? Because it’s the cool thing to do… I shit you not. Sure programs that have been some of the winningest ever have banners to rest on, but then the examples like Gamecocks football show you don’t need loads of Championships to have a strong following.

Supporting the school has to be cool. When students think that it is the cool thing to do - the place to see and be seen - that is when we will have a strong following and tradition will develop. I hate to say it, but apathy has a lot to do with it, and no matter what a small group of dedicated individuals come up with, until we can find the way to appeal to the masses, it will always mean small turnouts and lame support.

How do we create the ‘cool factor’? I don’t know. If we can figure out a way to energize the students into thinking all things Niner related are awesome, the problem is solved. Traditions build themselves. Once our own students as a whole body move away from apathy and into a realm of die hard support, they become alums that support the same way and the cycle continues, and the movement snowballs. Once the alumni are in the community and don’t take any shit from anyone about the U of C and demand the be recognized on the same level as other institutions, we have better standing in Charlotte, and NC. We also have better donations, which means better facilities and more resources.

I’ve tried to reiterate this with folks in the AD and Alumni Assoc. in general, that until we get the students engaged from SOAR on, and keep them engaged throughout college, we are going to fail at creating what we aspire.

I will say this, as two simple solutions that maybe don’t create cool, but definitely put students in a much better position to view it that way. It also addresses and solves some other problems as well.

  1. Require incoming freshmen traditional students to live on campus; and
  2. Disallow parking for freshmen traditional students.

This would free up several thousand parking spots per semester. It also forces students to live on campus and develop as a community. Further, since they can’t immediately and conveniently run off campus for meals or on the weekends it fixes two other problems. The first is that they are on campus significantly more. The second, is that it provides business for the for-profit food and entertainment venues on campus, and therefore gives them more incentive to stay open later and serve more students on the weekends. You have more students around, so more things are open, more things are open, so you get even more students around. Again, it’s the snowball effect.

This is not an ultimate solution to the cool factor, but I think it’s a great place to start and I wish the U would go ahead and institute a policy as such.

Again, start with the students, not the die-hards… all of them, and make all things Niner the in thing, and your problems are gone 10 years.

Where do we get the hot chicks, JFelt?

[quote=“Hooner49, post:21, topic:23501”][quote=“Chipper, post:20, topic:23501”]Would you learn some f***ing grammar dumbass? How the hell do some of you expect to succeed with your piss poor communication skills? I’m serious. Learn the proper grammatical skills and you will be one up on your competition because no one currently in college seems to understand.

I’m doing you a favor by making this suggestion. I hope you are smart enough to take my advice and not foolish enough to reject it.[/quote]

This is an interwebs message board, calm down.[/quote]
I love internet warriors, lol. I never got below a B in my college career, graduated early with a 3.7 GPA, and had a great job lined up months before I graduated. I’d wager I’m quite a bit more successful right now than you were (assuming you are older than me) at my age. I’m sorry I generally don’t treat message boards like I’m writing an essay or an e-mail to my boss. I’m sure it’s a lot easier to try to insult me and be completely off topic than address the point of my post.

But whatever I won’t respond to this again, so feel to try to get in the last word/insult here unless you’d rather PM me. It’s obvious you’d rather be bitter and complain than ever attempt to generate change.

While I am not going to get all Rambo flak jacket or anything… bad grammar here kind of bugs me.

Yes, this is an internet message board… but it is populated almost entirely by students and alumni of a university… and to some extent reflects on the quality of that university.

I’m not saying that every post has to be perfect MLA-style essay-quality prose… but it is it really that hard to make sure you’ve spelled correctly and your post at least makes sense?

Every time I read an SCK post I roll my eyes at how poorly he portrays his education… it is borderline embarrassing at times.

You can tell the conversation has been beat to death when ‘grammar’ is what takes it off topic…

Cry me a river, Lew. :’(

Correct. And has the Observer never portrayed us as a cool team to support (students read the Observer too you know)? They’ve done the opposite. They have often not reported our successes and harped on our failures, resulting in less enthusiasm for supporting us. The perception they have created for us is we are not worthy. Even when we were in CUSA, some casual basketball fans in this city thought we were D2. And yes, these casual fans read the paper every day.

One of our big CUSA wins OVER A TOP RANKED TEAM did not have a post game write-up. That game ended at 10:00. The tarhole game that ended at 11:00 was front page. Mike’s excuse was that our game ended too late. But even more sadly, some of you actually condone this crap.

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I noticed you dodged the point of my post. Who taught you how to do that?

Once again, read what I suggested and get back with me once you have the question answered.

I don’t know about all that, but bad grammar is one of the 10 most annoying things in the world. Obviously Internet-writing allows for some leeway, but simple things like not substituting homophones and spelling words correctly shouldn’t be too much to ask for. I don’t think anyone expects proper use of “whom” or correct comma placement, but it would be nice to not see “rediculous” ever again. Ever. Again.

Thank you sir. Some of the crap I’ve seen on this board makes us look no better than Walmart tarhole fans (see Ace’s posts).

Ok…

So this is getting way outta hand.

Just to clarify, my post wasn’t made to agree nor disagree. Rather, it was just to point out that the ‘grammar’ argument is one of many argument that always present themselves when one side or the other gives up. It was supposed to mock the typical way NNN threads end, usually in grammar debates, political debates or seniority debates.

NNN has caused me some problems before, but now I am losing a friend over it.

Goodbye

-Gill

At the risk of getting back on topic I would like to talk about the “cool factor”. My nephew just got back from freshman orientation at Clemson (I know, I know) and was told that Fridays are Orange Pride day–everyone wears orange. I would love to see our students take ownership of starting Green Pride day. I don’t care who we copy–there are no original ideas anyway.