So much for that meteoric rise to I-A while leaving ASU and I-AA football in their smoldering wake.
/schadenfreude
49ers review football Plan B
By Ron Green Jr. rgreen@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Thursday, Apr. 02, 2009
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Turning commitments into payments for Charlotte 49ers football seat licenses is off to a sluggish start while school officials are reconsidering the overall scope of the football initiative.
The difficult economy led chancellor Philip Dubois to present a scaled-back ‘Plan B' for the start-up program to board of trustees during a February meeting.
The new plan would require approximately $20 million rather than the $45 million called for the original plan. The scaled-back model would still allow the program to begin play in 2013.
The new plan would include a sports complex using a pre-engineered structure. The plan would also add approximately 11,000 bleacher seats to the 4,000 seats around the Belk track complex to create a football stadium.
"It gets you started," Dubois said Thursday.
No vote was taken on Dubois's Plan B proposal. A vote on the plan is expected at a later date.
Can UNCC have it all in a recession?
$45 million sought for football even as endowment shrinks.
Posted: Wednesday, Apr. 01, 2009
In the midst of a deep recession, UNC Charlotte is at work raising $45 million for a football program.
There's nothing wrong with that. Nothing, that is, until you consider the fact the endowment it uses to fund academic scholarships is under great strain. It's one thing to stretch your fundraising muscle. It's another to do it at a time when the loss of student scholarships is all but inevitable.
Speaking in March about UNCC budget cuts to the governing board for the University of North Carolina system, Provost Joan Lorden said the university's foundation for private giving has taken a big hit since Wall Street's tumble. Such foundations are key assets for public universities, who depend on the investment income they earn to augment academic programs.
“One of our largest concerns is the loss of money in endowed scholarships and endowed professorships,” she said.
Here's the real eye-opener: Lorden said UNCC currently funds 52 endowed scholarships. If current conditions persist, she told the board that number would be down to 19 in three years time – unless donations increase to make up the gap.
“It’s like someone found a manic, doom-prophesying hobo in a sandwich board, shaved him, shot him full of Zoloft and gave him a show.” - The Buffalo Beast commenting on Glenn Beck
Unbelieveable that they ONLY got 1304 permanent seat license payments.......they had over 5400 people that SAID they would send their money into them. That is pathetic. Sounds like they need to start in Division II football if they really want football.
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina Just below Virginia, just next to Tennessee, but
up above all universities.
GoApps70 wrote:Unbelieveable that they ONLY got 1304 permanent seat license payments.......they had over 5400 people that SAID they would send their money into them. That is pathetic. Sounds like they need to start in Division II football if they really want football.
Agree.....sounds like someone has an inferiority complex about having a football team....they'll get over it, Western did......
“It’s like someone found a manic, doom-prophesying hobo in a sandwich board, shaved him, shot him full of Zoloft and gave him a show.” - The Buffalo Beast commenting on Glenn Beck
