http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/08/07/2512004/49ers-focus-on-rules.html
Pretty good article. The part the made me smile was this line:
ā[font=Arial]And with Charlotte starting football in 2013 (in the Football Championship Subdivision initially, then moving to Football Bowl Subdivision), Rose said she will be paying particular attention.ā[/font]
lol @ Metro.
āYouāre only as good as your staff,ā she said. "Nobody at (North Carolina) would have thought they didnāt have the right people in place and that they hadnāt put their student-athletes through all the compliance (education) they needed. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/08/07/2512004/49ers-focus-on-rules.html#ixzz1URF2m1ig
I guarantee Judy said āChapel Hillā where Scott substituted ā(North Carolina)ā in this article. WHY?
She should have just said āWe have rules here.ā and left it at that.
Ahab had Moby, Metro hasā¦
Ahab had Moby, Metro hasā¦[/quote]
Iāll give him one thing, heās consistent.
Ahab had Moby, Metro hasā¦[/quote]
Iāll give him one thing, heās consistent.[/quote]
Metroās problem is with delivery, not content. I know I agree with a great deal of what he says and many here do. He just says it in such a vengeful way that you canāt agree with him.
And I quoteā¦
"Maybe Judy should go to a meeting on the following:
image
tv packages
alum retention
merchandising
finding donors under age 70
worst chancellor-AD combo in NCAAā¦BAR NONE"
Do we really have that many people here that disagree with this?
The AD has done a crap job in our own city and increasing our imgae and visibility. While App and other school lay claim in our city.
TV? Channelsurfing.net The Offcial TV Network of the Charlotte 49ers, need I say more?
Alum retention/participation? Are we growing at all? The donor base is virtually unchaged from 10 years ago.
Merchandising - I will say this is the one area that has gotten WAY better. Still work to be done though.
Donors under 70 - I would say donors period. I think they do a very crappy job of reaching out to potential donors. They are always looking to swing for the fences with out realizing that the small donors add up. It isnāt an either or deal it is a BOTH.
AD/Chancellor combo - Do we really disagree with this? It took grass roots to get football going. AD is really showing teh leadership I think we want/need and on the chancellor side - do I even need to list the problems? The 2 positives are he plays a political game and we have got funding for buildings, etc. And he said yes to football.
I wish the O would just leave that picture out of articles about us.
Ahab had Moby, Metro hasā¦[/quote]
Iāll give him one thing, heās consistent.[/quote]
Metroās problem is with delivery, not content. I know I agree with a great deal of what he says and many here do. He just says it in such a vengeful way that you canāt agree with him.
And I quoteā¦
"Maybe Judy should go to a meeting on the following:
image
tv packages
alum retention
merchandising
finding donors under age 70
worst chancellor-AD combo in NCAAā¦BAR NONE"
Do we really have that many people here that disagree with this?
The AD has done a crap job in our own city and increasing our imgae and visibility. While App and other school lay claim in our city.
TV? Channelsurfing.net The Offcial TV Network of the Charlotte 49ers, need I say more?
Alum retention/participation? Are we growing at all? The donor base is virtually unchaged from 10 years ago.
Merchandising - I will say this is the one area that has gotten WAY better. Still work to be done though.
Donors under 70 - I would say donors period. I think they do a very crappy job of reaching out to potential donors. They are always looking to swing for the fences with out realizing that the small donors add up. It isnāt an either or deal it is a BOTH.
AD/Chancellor combo - Do we really disagree with this? It took grass roots to get football going. AD is really showing teh leadership I think we want/need and on the chancellor side - do I even need to list the problems? The 2 positives are he plays a political game and we have got funding for buildings, etc. And he said yes to football.[/quote]
I highly doubt we have the WORST Ad/Chancellor combo in the country.
We have top 25 teams on campus with what ābigā schools would call a shoestring budget, and weāre getting football in a down economy.
Iām critical of our schoolās leadership all the time (especially on fundraising), but some of you act like theyāre incapable of doing anything right and if it werenāt for us fans weād be cancelling sports and closing up shop.
[quote=ā49er1, post:3, topic:25603ā]āYouāre only as good as your staff,ā she said. "Nobody at (North Carolina) would have thought they didnāt have the right people in place and that they hadnāt put their student-athletes through all the compliance (education) they needed. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/08/07/2512004/49ers-focus-on-rules.html#ixzz1URF2m1ig
I guarantee Judy said āChapel Hillā where Scott substituted ā(North Carolina)ā in this article. WHY?[/quote] Metroās comments on the story prove he hasnāt learned a second note to sing in his often repeated song. Very boring.
Ahab had Moby, Metro hasā¦[/quote]
Iāll give him one thing, heās consistent.[/quote]
Metroās problem is with delivery, not content. I know I agree with a great deal of what he says and many here do. He just says it in such a vengeful way that you canāt agree with him.
And I quoteā¦
"Maybe Judy should go to a meeting on the following:
image
tv packages
alum retention
merchandising
finding donors under age 70
worst chancellor-AD combo in NCAAā¦BAR NONE"
Do we really have that many people here that disagree with this?
The AD has done a crap job in our own city and increasing our imgae and visibility. While App and other school lay claim in our city.
TV? Channelsurfing.net The Offcial TV Network of the Charlotte 49ers, need I say more?
Alum retention/participation? Are we growing at all? The donor base is virtually unchaged from 10 years ago.
Merchandising - I will say this is the one area that has gotten WAY better. Still work to be done though.
Donors under 70 - I would say donors period. I think they do a very crappy job of reaching out to potential donors. They are always looking to swing for the fences with out realizing that the small donors add up. It isnāt an either or deal it is a BOTH.
AD/Chancellor combo - Do we really disagree with this? It took grass roots to get football going. AD is really showing teh leadership I think we want/need and on the chancellor side - do I even need to list the problems? The 2 positives are he plays a political game and we have got funding for buildings, etc. And he said yes to football.[/quote]
I highly doubt we have the WORST Ad/Chancellor combo in the country.
We have top 25 teams on campus with what ābigā schools would call a shoestring budget, and weāre getting football in a down economy.
Iām critical of our schoolās leadership all the time (especially on fundraising), but some of you act like theyāre incapable of doing anything right and if it werenāt for us fans weād be cancelling sports and closing up shop.[/quote]
Well I am not agreeing that they are the wrost AD/Chance combo. They certainly are not the top though. My main point is that many of his gripes are legit, just probably not as much as he thinks.
Everyone is always complaining about our āMickey Mouseā AD, but let me pose this:
Which makes us look dumber? The fact that our AD sometimes messes upā¦ORā¦the fact that Charlotte fans constantly making themselves look ridiculous EVERY TIME THERE IS AN ARTICLE ABOUT US?
Seriously, it makes us all look like sniveling whining babies. While I may not be the biggest fan of our AD, in the end it is my school and Iām going to stick by their decisions. I hesitate to even read Observer articles anymore, because I cringe at the very thought of what some idiot posted to make us look even more unorganized.
just a thought
I agree! I plan all my sporting event attendance decisions around the comments in the local newspaper.
Last month I was in Baltimore contemplating an Orioles game. However, in the Baltimore Sun I saw a story about Andy MacPhail and the people commenting were MEAN! They made jokes about his name! How could I dare sit in beautiful Oriole Park at Camden Yard knowing a meanie could be sitting next to me.
Lost in our typical banter is that the article says this:
ā[font=Arial]And with Charlotte starting football in 2013 (in the Football Championship Subdivision initially, then moving to Football Bowl Subdivision), Rose said she will be paying particular attention.ā
So my question is did Scott decide to just throw in the FBS line? Did Judy say it? Anytime I hear us talking about FCS/FBS it makes me curious about the context.
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Piss or get off the pot with FBS intentions.
Agree - letās get it out in the open. At this point all it can do is help I would think.
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I was gonna go with āIs Lady Gaga packin?ā but I think this works too.
All I know is that having David put that line in another article will make it just that much harder to get into an FCS conference.
Really? I mean itās like the worst kept secret. Putting out in public what I am guessing they are saying in private at this point wonāt make a difference besides get people excited about moving up and maybe - SHOCKER - sell more FSLs and garner more interest.
FCS conferences already know or are behaving like we are fast tracking so making public what they already know shouldnāt make a difference.