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http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/colleges/university_of_north_carolina_charlotte/16674031.htm

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/colleges/university_of_north_carolina_charlotte/16674213.htm

2/13/2007 12:27:16 AM

question for you native North Carolinians... where did the Tryon name come from? its in every city... family name? place name?

2/13/2007 12:29:59 AM

god damn that's farther away than carter finley from our campus.

[Edited on February 13, 2007 at 12:37 AM. Reason : v knows exactly what tryon means]

2/13/2007 12:30:26 AM

Governor William Tryon

and my bro has a uncc shirt that's pretty cute... it says 'uncc football... undefeated since 1951' or something along those lines

[Edited on February 13, 2007 at 12:31 AM. Reason : ]

2/13/2007 12:31:05 AM

what did he do? like one of the first govs or something?

2/13/2007 12:32:40 AM

^^ that one never gets old. i see so many of those shirts, terrible.

2/13/2007 12:36:43 AM

nevermind, I wikipedia'ed it

2/13/2007 12:37:23 AM

they would be garbage for so long

2/13/2007 12:37:29 AM

he was governor in the years leading up to revolution

he was a supporter of the British cause and enforced their rules and policies pretty effectively - he wasn't really a fan favorite, per se

so really, i don't know why those streets/cities/etc are named the way they are... maybe they were named that way by people in his corner, who knows

2/13/2007 12:38:35 AM

south florida managed to be okay after 10 years or so. they'd be very lucky to have that kind of success.

2/13/2007 12:38:40 AM

^^ wow... and Wake county is named after his wife... how weird

2/13/2007 12:39:21 AM

it would make more sense to play at bank of america stadium. they are gonna spend a ton of money on a stadium that will hardly ever get filled, why not just take the 15 min. drive and save a shit ton of $. they will be losing money on the program anyway from what the observer is saying.

2/13/2007 12:44:57 AM

haha, they better not build a stadium that big.....

2/13/2007 12:54:35 AM

Quote :

"He has student-athletes over for dinner."

is that allowed?

^^ two things, firstly it looks way better for everyone involved to have a sold out 20k stadium than 20k people in an 80k stadium (or w/e boa is), and secondly who says it's cheap to play there? maybe boa doesn't want anything to do w/ uncc football hosting duties and either isn't going to let them or isn't going to let them for cheap. that's entirely possible. i wouldn't want to do it if i was in charge of boa stadium.

2/13/2007 12:59:44 AM

Being from Charlotte and seeing that location the only problem that might come outta that is if it ever has an game the same weekend in October as Lowes Motor Speedway it'll be complete traffic gridlock for hours (even worse than our games and the state fair on the same day). If they could use BoA that would make more sense, Pitt, South Fla, San Diego St, Tulane and there may be more use NFL stadiums for their home games. Oh and that stadium in the diagram is huge, a I-AA team would have one a lot smaller than that lol

2/13/2007 2:21:11 AM

Isn't the place they are locating it a swamp?

2/13/2007 2:22:34 AM

its either a swamp or a rock quary, I havent been through there in the past few years, so I dont remember 100% correctly

2/13/2007 2:27:02 AM

hahaha I bet anyone on here that Maryland could beat that ass no problem wouldnt even bee close

2/13/2007 2:29:40 AM

anyone could beat their ass.

I could pick up 3 homeless guys off the street and beat their ass.

considering they don't have a football team.

2/13/2007 2:50:21 AM

i mean when they get one fool



hahah sometimes this is sooo easy

2/13/2007 2:51:53 AM

They will still be absolutely terrible for at least 5-10 years or so, depending on how good their coach is.

They will probably start off in 1AA I assume.

2/13/2007 2:59:35 AM

charlotte sucks, sorry

UNC-C will NEVER be USF or even UCF

[Edited on February 13, 2007 at 3:01 AM. Reason : 2]

2/13/2007 3:00:28 AM

they can just suit up the indy squad

2/13/2007 3:26:09 AM

Quote :

"question for you native North Carolinians... where did the Tryon name come from? its in every city... family name? place name?"

Like others have said, he was the colonial governor in the years leading up to the Revolution. He built the first gubernatorial mansion/state capitol for the colony in New Bern in the late 1760s, Tryon Palace. It was used by our first governors as well following independence as the seat of the governor. You can go to Tryon Palace today for a historic site tour.

Interesting how the building is setup. It is right by the river for reasons of transport, but there are a half-dozen cannons facing the water. Understandable then I suppose, but a little odd from today's point of view. The reason the capital was moved to Raleigh in the early 1800s was to move the capital away from the state's waterways so the capital would not be devastated by a water attack from invaders.

2/13/2007 7:55:14 AM

that stadium looks megabig.....i doubt thats what they're aiming for

2/13/2007 9:37:16 AM

Why is Notre Dame moving their stadium to Charlotte?

2/13/2007 10:03:24 AM

Being from Charlotte and knowing how many kids went to UNCC from my high school, it has potential. I think a football team would actually make the school into a USF type school. I mean Charlotte has a lot of potential for a big time school. The money from football would help.

BY the way, isn't the reason they don't have a team is because some old woman that gave a lot of money said that she hated football and they could never have a team. What happened to that??

2/13/2007 11:19:57 AM

She died.

Seriously, that's what happened.

2/13/2007 11:21:50 AM

I dont have alot to add except I grew up in Charlotte and still call it home. We always went to the UNCC games and I still a pretty big fan. A football team would be freakin awesome...

2/13/2007 11:23:33 AM

lol

2/13/2007 11:23:37 AM

^^ thats what I remember hearing that a old woman had a son who played football and got seriously hurt. Since she gives so much money to the school they said they would not play football. It might just be another myth like State has with the bricks.

2/13/2007 11:23:49 AM

ok, I thought she's been dead but the rule still held. Oh well, good for them.

2/13/2007 11:24:01 AM

Yeah she died several years ago, and basically they have been gearing up for football ever since.

screw her memory and wishes.

2/13/2007 11:38:05 AM

haha, N. Tryon is the same street that has the Hobo village. My dad used to own a company on that road and we would take a glock just to lock up at night.

2/13/2007 11:40:14 AM

i hope they put it there. traffic will cease to move in that part of charlotte for the entire weekend.

2/13/2007 12:11:44 PM

^ you're assuming people will actually show up for these games.

2/13/2007 12:45:48 PM

i thought the donor not wanting a football team was the reason UNCW has no team...hmmm

2/13/2007 12:53:04 PM

y'all are confusing the old woman donor and the death of her son thing with why unc-w doesn't have a football team.

^ yep.

Quote :

"Jim Duncan has already imagined UNCC's first football Saturday. It is 2011, and 20,000 fans are tailgating near the soccer and track field, which has been expanded until an on-campus football stadium is built. The opponent? "You don't want someone who'll kill you," Duncan says. He settles on Western Carolina."

ahahahahaha! nice.

[Edited on February 13, 2007 at 1:08 PM. Reason : ]

2/13/2007 1:03:56 PM

Quote :

"Q. I thought Bonnie Cone didn't want a team? UNCC legend says school founder Bonnie Cone didn't want a football team because her son/grandson/nephew was injured while playing the sport and she pledged never to have a team while she was alive. Not true, said Ken Sanford, former UNCC public information director. Cone was the only UNCC leader to oversee a football team when the Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina had a squad during 1947-48."

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/colleges/university_of_north_carolina_charlotte/16674213.htm

2/13/2007 1:30:46 PM

USF is a horrible analogy for UNCC. The football demographics are not there. I encourage you to read the Statefansnation entry here:
http://www.statefansnation.com/index.php/archives/2007/02/07/football-signing-day-state-talent/

Quote :

"Here’s the breakdown of how many Division I-A signees the traditional ACC states produce on an annual basis, relative to the number of I-A programs in the state: Georgia 75 (150 signees, two teams) prospects per school, Florida 50 (350/7), Virginia 25 (50/2), Maryland 20 (40/2), South Carolina 20 (40/2), North Carolina 12 (60/5). Here’s the breakdown when you limit the same numbers to only BCS-conference teams: Florida 87 (350/4) per school, Georgia 75 (150/2), Maryland 40 (40/1), Virginia 25 (50/2), South Carolina 20 (40/2), North Carolina 15 (60/4). "

In short, North Carolina only produces 60 I-A prospects a year...not bad...but we already have 5 I-A schools. Florida, on the other hand, produces 350 prospects per year. That's plenty of talent to go around, and leaves plenty of leftovers for a USF.

2/13/2007 2:08:19 PM

I don't think Charlotte is going to be a 1-A team.

2/13/2007 2:16:34 PM

I don't know about USF but I could see UNCC after 5-10 years having maybe an App State type of team or atmosphere, I don't know if they'd be quite that successful though.

2/13/2007 2:19:00 PM

App State is easily the best 1-AA program and even they know right now they cannot move to 1-A.

It's not a matter of ability for ASU, because I think they could compete, it is a matter of money/budget.

2/13/2007 4:39:56 PM

Snapped a 10-game losing streak tonight, dating back to last season

10/21/2017 11:05:08 PM

I could see Charlotte usurping app's crown as top non power 5 team in the state in next 10 years. They are in big market, and could pump a lot of money into facilities after a bit of success. If they can start pulling some of the kids from the strong football schools around Charlotte, they could be in business.

It's actually kind of surprising that App way out in Boone developed into a popular school before UNCC, despite iti being in the biggest city in the state. Was Uncc founded later than app?

10/22/2017 4:49:56 PM

yes

10/22/2017 5:06:10 PM

^^^^ That's a funny post to see 10 years later...

10/22/2017 10:37:56 PM