Top story on ESPN....Charlotte (UNCC) football

[ChicosBailBonds]

Fun read for those that still have dreams

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=6699612


"Everything has been driven by football, and basketball hasn't had anything to do with it," Rose said. "I had this fear that we would be left out. I had a fear that there would be a break-off of the schools that have football and those that don't have football. It scared the heck out of me."

[NCMUFan]

FWIW, I work in the Charlotte metro.  One of my work mates is a UNCC grad.  He told me that UNCC has been wanting football for a long time.  However a huge donor to UNCC had a stipulation that they did not want football for so many years.  Now that that stipulation has expired, UNCC is pursuing football.  BS?  Maybe. Its just one story why it has been this long before UNCC has gotten football.  The being left out may have been just fabricated to add urgency in getting the program.

[Warrior_2002]

It would be so cool if we could do the same.  Not in my lifetime I guess.  I guess it just keeps basketball king at marquette....and...eh emmm...Lacrosse?     

[ChicosBailBonds]

It would be so cool if we could do the same.  Not in my lifetime I guess.  I guess it just keeps basketball king at marquette....and...eh emmm...Lacrosse?     

Just pray Ms. Rose is not right....over the long haul, however, I can't imagine her being anything but.

[Hoopaloop]

We made our bed, move on.  If we are left having to play in a lower division in future years because the football schools break away, it will be just another example of MU not seeing the bigger picture.  Football dropped, medical school dropped, hockey dropped, so on and so forth.  Can't blame MU entirely, most of us cannot see the bigger picture and when finances are involved it adds pressure to make decisions that may be beneficial in the short term but open up the school for eventual long term weakness.

Fortunately MU didn't scuttle the Dental School years ago, but that was under consideration as well at one point in time.