When do we finally start a real fight for the name change?

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Front of shirts:
[center]The University of[/center] [center]North Carolina at[/center] [center]CHARLOTTE[/center] Back of shirts:
[center]Let’s stand on our [/center] [center]own two feet![/center] [center] [/center] [center]Support Name Change![/center] [center] [/center] [left]and/or:[/left] [center]Get the UNC[/center] [center]out of Charlotte![/center] [center] [/center] [center]Support Name Change![/center] [center] [/center] [left]and/or:[/left] [center]No more Name[/center] [center]Confusion![/center] [center] [/center] [center]Support Name Change![/center]

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I love the banner at bball idea…let’s do it!

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I think if we could get some women to sow some sheets together, then have the logo painted on it, spread it out over multiple rows. Or have several sheets that it takes 6-8 kids to hold up with the logo on it.

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Real student fans would paint it on their chest.

Have the front row paint UNC Charlotte on their chest with the NC having a red line through it. For shits and giggles you can paint one with a hyphen with red line through it. Have “of” painted on the back of the hyphen and when they turn around voila you have U of Charlotte.

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I’m all for a name change guys but does it have to be University of Charlotte? I’ve actually always preferred Charlotte University over University of Charlotte. It rolls off the tongue better and it’s always seemed more prestigious. Just a suggestion.

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Way to steal my thunder, Chisox ::slight_smile:

Nah, jk. I’ll post something more later. Not enough time right this moment to give this the attention it deserves.

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Put the cap back on that can of worms.

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I say we do it ourselves.

Stop referring to it as “UNCC” or “UNC Charlotte”.

Start saying “University of Charlotte.”

Who cares if it is ‘correct’? Create a culture around the University of Charlotte. Take it out of CHP’s hands, rather than say “hey, can we be the University of Charlotte now?”

Say, “We are the University of Charlotte.”

We got football by forcing it down his throat… and that is what we have to do here.

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[quote=“ZombieLew, post:20, topic:23897”]I say we do it ourselves.

Stop referring to it as “UNCC” or “UNC Charlotte”.

Start saying “University of Charlotte.”

Who cares if it is ‘correct’? Create a culture around the University of Charlotte. Take it out of CHP’s hands, rather than say “hey, can we be the University of Charlotte now?”

Say, “We are the University of Charlotte.”

We got football by forcing it down his throat… and that is what we have to do here.[/quote]

That is not forcing anything down his throat. If in 2006 you had walking around everywhere saying that Charlotte was a football school nothing would have changed.

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I agree - this isn’t going to get it done…

but it might help. I say we all do this. When someone asks me where I went to school - I always tell them “Charlotte”. It eliminates a lot of the confusion.

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I was having the conversation with one of my military comrades today at drill about all of this. He’s an alumnus and absolutely huge Niner fan and hates that outsiders constantly refer to our school as UNC. He had no clue about NinerNation.Net, but hopefully now he’ll join. Anypoo, I had dreams that one day our student section would indeed have banners, shirts and chants to show their support of a name change during our big (if not all) home basketball games. If something could be organized for the Tennessee game to expose this concept to the general city public at Time Warner, that would be fan-tastic. In all truth, I would actually prefer “Charlotte University” instead of “UofC”, but that is irrelevant at this point. University of Charlotte has the most momentum, so that’s what we all should go for. I don’t care what the name is, as long as we just get the stupid UNC to vanish ASAP! Let’s do this $h%t!!!

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I think if we could get some women to sow some sheets together, then have the logo painted on it, spread it out over multiple rows. Or have several sheets that it takes 6-8 kids to hold up with the logo on it.[/quote]

Is this before or after they make me my sandwiches in the kitchen?

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University of Charlotte is widely favored. University of Pittsburgh, University of Cincinnati, University of Houston, University of Chicago, etc /discussion

[quote=“austinniner, post:22, topic:23897”]I agree - this isn’t going to get it done…

but it might help. I say we all do this. When someone asks me where I went to school - I always tell them “Charlotte”. It eliminates a lot of the confusion.[/quote]

This.

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I think if we could get some women to sow some sheets together, then have the logo painted on it, spread it out over multiple rows. Or have several sheets that it takes 6-8 kids to hold up with the logo on it.[/quote]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. And it doesn’t really have to have a cute or catchy phrase to get the point across. Simply putting University of Charlotte on about 10 bed sheets sewn together will make a major statement.

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I was already planning on making banners at campouts for games, I’ll definitely make sure this gets on one.

Also, a “U of C” chant doesn’t necessarily have to coincide with the banner… I think if that becomes a common chant, it would go a long way towards pushing the agenda.

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[quote=“ZombieLew, post:27, topic:23897”]I was already planning on making banners at campouts for games, I’ll definitely make sure this gets on one.

Also, a “U of C” chant doesn’t necessarily have to coincide with the banner… I think if that becomes a common chant, it would go a long way towards pushing the agenda.[/quote]

I am 1 million percent for the name change, but I just thought of something… you might want to do something other than " U of C" I can defently see it sounding like “U N C” if it’s not 100 percent clear and well… that doesn’t help us out at all does it…

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[quote=“EE9er, post:28, topic:23897”][quote=“ZombieLew, post:27, topic:23897”]I was already planning on making banners at campouts for games, I’ll definitely make sure this gets on one.

Also, a “U of C” chant doesn’t necessarily have to coincide with the banner… I think if that becomes a common chant, it would go a long way towards pushing the agenda.[/quote]

I am 1 million percent for the name change, but I just thought of something… you might want to do something other than " U of C" I can defently see it sounding like “U N C” if it’s not 100 percent clear and well… that doesn’t help us out at all does it…[/quote]

Good point.

One a somewhat similar note, I was planning to make a very large banner reading “WE ARE CHARLOTTE’S UNIVERSITY” for the UT game at TWC Arena.

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Great idea. DO IT!

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Our fans have a bigger inferiority complex than any other fanbase.

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[quote=“ZombieLew, post:29, topic:23897”][quote=“EE9er, post:28, topic:23897”][quote=“ZombieLew, post:27, topic:23897”]I was already planning on making banners at campouts for games, I’ll definitely make sure this gets on one.

Also, a “U of C” chant doesn’t necessarily have to coincide with the banner… I think if that becomes a common chant, it would go a long way towards pushing the agenda.[/quote]

I am 1 million percent for the name change, but I just thought of something… you might want to do something other than " U of C" I can defently see it sounding like “U N C” if it’s not 100 percent clear and well… that doesn’t help us out at all does it…[/quote]

Good point.

One a somewhat similar note, I was planning to make a very large banner reading “WE ARE CHARLOTTE’S UNIVERSITY” for the UT game at TWC Arena.[/quote]

Drop the “WE ARE” and just go with “CHARLOTTE’S UNIVERSITY”. I get visions of Statmats and Toys R Us when I see “we are”.

No, Wake fans have us beat by miles there. They are the short shafts of the ACC.

Seriously, how does wanting to create our own separate identity equate to having an inferiority complex?