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UNC Charlotte football is official in 2013

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SoCon told them hell no because we don't want to join for all sports. The CAA commissioner has mentioned us as a potential candidate a few times. They are the best FCS conference, they have by far the best FCS television contract, and have schools with similar qualities of Charlotte. The SoCon is mostly filled with small private institutions.

The Big South is a possibility, but I think Charlotte would go independent before they go Big South.

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I apologize about the negativity but some times being realistic comes across that way.

NC is suppose to be a basketball state and UNCC has a hard time selling tickets to a basketball game. Heck the Tar Heels drew no more than 10k people when in Charlotte a few years back and this town is full of UNC bandwagon fans.

All that being said, it doesn't bother me that they have a football team. I may even go to a few games.

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I apologize about the negativity but some times being realistic comes across that way.

NC is suppose to be a basketball state and UNCC has a hard time selling tickets to a basketball game. Heck the Tar Heels drew no more than 10k people when in Charlotte a few years back and this town is full of UNC bandwagon fans.

All that being said, it doesn't bother me that they have a football team. I may even go to a few games.

Basketball and football are two completely different beasts. Charlotte's main problem for basketball is nobody here cares about the conference they play in anymore. Sellouts were a regular when Charlotte was in CUSA playing great competition and making the tournament every year. The A10 has a few draws like Xavier, Temple, Dayton (kind of), and whoever is the surprise ranked team in the A10 every year. Overwhelmingly though, who wants to see LaSalle, Fordham, Duquesne, and St. Bonaventure. The rest of the league is at least respectable and relatively well know, but those 4 are an embarrassment.

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Basketball and football are two completely different beasts. Charlotte's main problem for basketball is nobody here cares about the conference they play in anymore. Sellouts were a regular when Charlotte was in CUSA playing great competition and making the tournament every year. The A10 has a few draws like Xavier, Temple, Dayton (kind of), and whoever is the surprise ranked team in the A10 every year. Overwhelmingly though, who wants to see LaSalle, Fordham, Duquesne, and St. Bonaventure. The rest of the league is at least respectable and relatively well know, but those 4 are an embarrassment.

Maybe so. It still doesn't explain why the Tar Heels can't fill a 19k person arena.

If the league and the competition is to blame for the lack of attendance to the basketball games what makes you think it will be any different for the football team?

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If you are talking football, there is no A10 football conference so you are correct, it is very difficult to recruit top talent to a league that doesn't exist.

If you are talking basketball, Xavier and Dayton both have no problems drawing in top 100 (and even top 50 on occasion) talent.

The A10 gets more top 150 players in basketball than any non-BCS conference. It's hard to get 'top' talent, but I wouldn't go as far as to say incredibly difficult.

I realize this. Trust me. Xavier is also a better basketball program.

All I'm saying, and it's hard to dispute, is that using the A-10 as a selling point the way you could use the ACC or SEC is difficult.

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Basketball and football are two completely different beasts. Charlotte's main problem for basketball is nobody here cares about the conference they play in anymore. Sellouts were a regular when Charlotte was in CUSA playing great competition and making the tournament every year. The A10 has a few draws like Xavier, Temple, Dayton (kind of), and whoever is the surprise ranked team in the A10 every year. Overwhelmingly though, who wants to see LaSalle, Fordham, Duquesne, and St. Bonaventure. The rest of the league is at least respectable and relatively well know, but those 4 are an embarrassment.

Thanks for proving my point!

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Maybe so. It still doesn't explain why the Tar Heels can't fill a 19k person arena.

If the league and the competition is to blame for the lack of attendance to the basketball games what makes you think it will be any different for the football team?

Why does App sell out their stadium? If you field a good product, it doesn't matter who you play.

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I went to USF and graduated the year before they got football back in 97. In 12 years they have come a long way and are a respectable team now sending players to the NFL regularly. It took 12 years for the second largest school in Florida to get decent. Charlotte has little hope of being even mediocre in the next 30 years.

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I dont' totally agree with that and I think there is a lot of evidence to the contrary. I think it depends on your market and I don't think Charlotte is a great market for sports and it might be even worst for college sports.

As for App they don't have a lot of other activities to compete with and their students are typically not from there, they live on or near campus and they don't have a ton of other activities to choose from.

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I went to USF and graduated the year before they got football back in 97. In 12 years they have come a long way and are a respectable team now sending players to the NFL regularly. It took 12 years for the second largest school in Florida to get decent. Charlotte has little hope of being even mediocre in the next 30 years.

Filed away for future reference.

In 27 years, you're going to feel sooooooooo silly.

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I dont' totally agree with that and I think there is a lot of evidence to the contrary. I think it depends on your market and I don't think Charlotte is a great market for sports and it might be even worst for college sports.

As for App they don't have a lot of other activities to compete with and their students are typically not from there, they live on or near campus and they don't have a ton of other activities to choose from.

You bring up a good point.

Anyone who has gone or goes to Charlotte knows that the place empties on the weekends and most of the students are commuters anyways.

Thought I guess you could make the argument that bringing football to the university would entice students to stay on campus, but I guess the jury is still out on that one.

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