Charlotte football delay likely

[Mountaineer]

UNCC football delay looking likely
By Andrew Dunn
andrewdunn@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Friday, May. 29, 2009

UNC Charlotte's already scaled-back plan to launch a football program is increasingly looking like it will be delayed.

The school's Board of Trustees will decide in the fall whether to proceed with a plan to begin play in 2013, or to push the project back one year or more. The choice will hinge on the number of seat licenses sold – currently behind schedule – and the diminishing likelihood of a successful fundraising drive.

“I feel like we've been fighting off alligators,” Chancellor Philip Dubois said at a trustees meeting Friday.

The initial plan was approved in November. In February, Dubois unveiled a Plan B that drastically reduced the amount the school plans to spend to create the program, from about $45 million to $20 million. Instead of a new stadium, Plan B adds bleachers to an existing field, and the proposed sports complex would be built with a prefabricated structure.

Plan B still requires 5,000 seat licenses to be sold, and $3.6 million raised in private donations. Currently, only 1,693 licenses have been sold, and the fundraising drive hasn't begun.

Trustees indicated Friday that they are in support of the Plan B, but even this could be pushed back. With the state of the economy, both goals are in limbo.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/597/story/752238.html

[dbackjon]

They picked a bad economic time to try to start this

[93henfan]

How much are the charging per license? I'm surprised they'd try PSLs in FCS football.

You have to make it easy for people to become season ticket holders, like ODU is doing. They're already the #1 season ticket base in the CAA and haven't played a game yet.

1,693 seats sold? Pssshaw, get with it UNCC.

[mountaineertider]

But didn't you know? They are going to steal all our recruits from Charlotte and become a national powerhouse and win the FCS title in 2010 and then the FBS in 2011!!

[Appaholic]

they'll be a junk program for many moons.....the laughingstock of the sunbelt is their destiny....

[bench]

Maybe they're waiting for someone to actually give a shit

[Appaholic]

Maybe they're waiting for someone to actually give a ****

No sh!t.....maybe they can hand out free PSL's at the Bobcat's game....no, wait....never mind....mayb e they can hand them out at the speedway with the purchase of a fried chicken bucket or use them as rewards for not throwing beer cans and chicken wings at Jeff Gordon in turn 2......