Trustees’ Discuss Football June 6, 2008

As I feared cost was the only consideration at the trustees’ discussion of football today. I don’t want to trivialize the importance of how much football will cost students and the university, but there’s much more to this equation that was never talked about. If we’re going to give this thing its due diligence at [...]

Update: Charlotte Football June 4, 2008

There seem to be a lot of rumors flying around about football at Charlotte so I wanted to clear up a few of them. As far as the time line goes, the chancellor will present his research to the trustees on Thursday (6/04/08), and we will be discussing it in further detail. The chancellor [...]

April 2008 Update on Football at UNC Charlotte April 14, 2008

Charlotte 49er Students,
I am writing today to update you on football at UNC Charlotte as of April 13th, 2008. The Chancellor appointed a Football Feasibility Committee last February after you turned out in force, voting in the Spring 2007 SGA football poll to say that you wanted football and that you wanted to pay for [...]

Football Committee Report Released February 27, 2008

Fully available at the Chancellor’s Website
Dig in!
The best part of the whole report is Mac Everett’s letter to the Chancellor Mac Everett, former Wachovia exec and former UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees chair headed up the football committee.
One of my favorite excerpts from the letter (maybe hard to see because the columnar format of this [...]

Former UNC System Presidents Present Antiquated Views of College Football February 22, 2008

Former UNC System Presidents, Bill Friday and Dick Spangler spoke to the UNC Charlotte Faculty Council on Thursday February 21st to try and raise up the faculty against the Chancellor as he makes his decision on adding a football program. But, unfortunately for them, the public participation period of the process is over. There were [...]

I Respectfully Disagree, Football Helps Academics February 15, 2008

A university is not a big pot of money. Just like our federal government, every dollar that goes into any project or expenditure is earmarked and very few funds go into actual discretionary funding.
That is the point of contention among Charlotte Football proponents and legendary UNC System (the UNC system is different from Chapel Hill… [...]

Getting Ready for WFU November 27, 2007

It’s almost time for the momentous occasion of the Charlotte 49ers first basketball game in the Charlotte Bobcats Arena where they will take on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Using some statistical analysis of both teams thus far, here is what we’ve got:
In the Pomerory Ratings Wake Forest is rated 111, and Charlotte is [...]

A Great Week for Niner Sports November 12, 2007

This week not only kicked off the ‘07-’08 Basketball Season, but we also hosted the A10 Women’s Soccer Tournament where our ladies were seeded #1 and had a legitimate shot at advancing to the NCAA tourney for the first time in over 14 years.
The weekend started out with a victory over Richmond in the [...]