UNCG & UNCW Football a STRONG possibility...

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Rumor originally posted on www.MEACFansZone.proboards.com by moderator TightEye

The fact that UNC Charlotte (CAA) football is coming online and the rumors of UNCG (SOCON) and UNCW (CAA) are planning on building football programs. How much longer can NC HBCU's continue to loose before they are over taken and become irrelevant?

Just think, NCCU is doing something about their problems and as long as Wicker-McCree stays in place the Eagles will be alright.

As for the Aggies, it seems as if their issues just keep compiling. Whether it's unrealistic standards from the administrator to a general sense of incompetency. Nevertheless, the Aggies appear to have a more difficult road to travel to return to success.

Now for the main attraction...

Word on the street is that UNC-Wilmington is starting a football team in 2015 and will be a member of the Colonial Athletic Association.

Also, it has been rumored that Russ Huesman the current head coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is their first and primary choice. If Coach Huesman accepts the job, he would leave after this season to build the UNC-W program from scratch beginning in 2011.

Here's the concept uniforms:


This info was obtained from an inside source on the UTC campus

An outline of UNCW strategic plan (does not include football, but the UNCW alumni are taking a book from UNCC playbook to get started.)
www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100720/ARTICLES/100729961?p=1&tc=pg

cheapseat.blogs.starnewsonline.com/11188/uncw-football-more-from-power-breakfast/?tc=ar

FYI, UNC-Greensboro is discussing the possibility of beginning a football program as well.

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First UNC-Charlotte and now UNCG AND UNCW??? xeyebrowx

Talk about a glut of NC FCS Teams.

[Bornthrilla]

West Coast, this is silly.

Neither school has expressed an interest in even performing a feasibility study about football. Just another Internet rumor.

[DECKS]

I think everyone will sit back and see how it works out at UNCC first who by the way is struggling to generate interest in the Charlotte community.

[@ProfBellamy]

Anything is possible if they can find the private funds to do it. I just hope that the HBCUs in NC get their act together and decrease their reliance on the Athletic Fees.

[captaggie]

What revenue stream replaces hbcus reliance on student fees?