A few 49ers notes after being off for a week:
-- Well, it's come to this for the men's basketball team. The 49ers are tied for 12th in the Atlantic 10 with Saint Joseph's, both with 2-10 league records. The top 12 teams make the league tournament. Charlotte has a decidedly tougher schedule the rest of the way, but with a game against the Hawks at Halton Arena awaiting on the final day of the regular season, the 49ers could trail St. Joe's by a game, win that one and still make the tournament (the tie-breaker goes to the head-to-head winner).
Here's the rest of Charlotte's schedule (combined record of first three opponents 28-9)
Wednesday: at George Washington (7-5)
Saturday: Richmond (10-3)
March 2: at Xavier (11-1)
March 5: Saint Joseph's
Saint Joseph's remaining schedule (combined record of first three opponents 22-15)
Wednesday: at UMass (6-6)
Saturday: St. Bonanventure (6-6)
March 2: Richmond (10-3)
March 5: at Charlotte
-- No such worries for the women's team, which wraps up its home schedule Wednesday at 7 p.m. against Duquesne. Charlotte (21-6, 9-3) can clinch third place and a first-round bye in next week's league tournament with a victory against the Dukes 20-7, 7-5).
-- Not a bad way to start a baseball season, I guess, by outscoring the opposition 61-1 in a four-game series. But that's what the 49ers did against overmatched Coppin State over the weekend. What a mismatch, one that didn't prove much (except that the 49ers can attract decent crowds on a beautiful pre-spring weekend). The 49ers will get a presumably tougher test this weekend when they host Missouri (1-2) for four games. Tigers pitching got roughed up over the weekend in losses to Southern Cal ( 9-3) and North Carolina (11-3) in a tournament in Los Angeles. Missouri also had to score a lot of runs to beat Cal Poly 10-9 in its only victory.
-- Charlotte's women's soccer team signed 10 players last week: Darby Broeker of San Ramon, Calif., Heather Carew of Apex, Hannah Carlson of Chesapeake, Va., Olivia Evans of Dublin, Ohio, Amanda Jones of Mahwah, N.J., Kristin Markham of Elizabethtown, Pa., Annie McHenry of Raleigh, Jessica Ryan of Downingtown, Pa., Dana Robertson of Madison, Wis., and Sara Trexler of Parkland, Fla.
-- The 49ers men's and women's teams finished second at the Atlantic 10 indoor track championships over the weekend at Newport, R.I. Charlotte had nine conference champs: Junior Sam Jordan (55m), senior Darius Law (200m, 400m), junior Dakota Lowery (mile) and the men's 4x400-meter relay team all captured titles for the men's squad, while senior Chalonda Silver (55m), sophomore Ciera Ginyard (200m), junior Cecily Young (400m) and the 4x400-meter relay unit won women's titles.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Tough road to A-10 tournament
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Good work Silver Fox!
Welcome Back Scotty!
uncc should be embarrassed. we expect so much more from a proud university.
i will say that i am glad to see uncc is not recruiting juco's anymore...and major has had to deal with rose and a bunch of lutz's knuckleheads.
If embarrassing a university is grounds for firing an employee than Rose and Majors should both be history at the proud University at Charlotte.
Clay Aiken is in town this week. Any chance we could get him to do a halftime show? Or sing the national anthem?
....Thats about the only way I can see to get more fans in the seats.
Embarrassing is also not knowing your coach's name doesn't end with a "s". Here's to hoping Coach Alan Major has better luck with a full roster and his own players next year. Is it over yet?
If the public doesn't know your name after being a head coach at a university for a season that is an indication that you have not made much of an impression within the community. If a name has a meaning maybe an alphabet does too. S= sorry
The communities lack of knowledge about Charlotte sports is obviously because the product on the floor is dreadful, but also a direct correlation with the marketing department. They are so full of themselves and unwilling to accept change. Now they should be embarrassed! Bottomline is that the entire AD needs to be revamped.
S = Staying home this year
Hopefully the money we save from NOT going to Atlantic City this year will be reinvested in lights for the football stadium. Football is King and must be given top priority in this athletics department now.
sorry but this is North Carolina. Basketball is and will always be king.
I've got my ticket to the A-10 tournament. I got them early. I thought that with the players Majors inherited, 19 wins,
Last season, and College Sports Magazine predicting Charlotte in the NCAA at the beginning of the season the A-10 was a no brainer.
Judy does the University still pay to send you to the tournament if the team doesn't qualify? If not would you and Majors like for me to email you some pictures?
They'll be flying me roundtrip, first-class. Suckers!
Sincerely yours,
JUDY ROSE
I'm glad you had such great optimism for this year's team, but your facts are based on crap (no offense). I wouldn't buy that magazine with the rankings anymore. Look at the teams Charlotte beat to get to the 19-12 season which was so awesome.
UNC Asheville (11-7)(15-16)
Elon (5-13)(9-23)
Yale (6-8)(12-19)
Hofstra (10-8)(19-15)
East Carolina (4-12)(10-21)
Louisville* (11-7)(20-13)
Winston-Salem State (N/A)(12-17)
Gardner-Webb (5-13)(8-21)
Winthrop (12-6)(19-14)
Mercer (10-10)(16-17)
St. Bonaventure (7-9)(15-16)
Saint Louis (11-5)(23-13)
Richmond (13-3)(26-9)
La Salle (4-12)(12-18)
Temple (14-2)(29-6)
Massachusetts (5-11)(12-20)
George Washington (6-10)(16-15)
Fordham (0-16)(2-26)
Saint Joseph’s (5-11)(11-20)
*Louisville had 2 or 3 starters out.
So out of the 19 wins it was against a combined 286 – 319 win/loss record or .473%
How do you figure we were good last year? We played an easy schedule for the most part. Everybody that says that Charlotte would be better this year and it is all Major's fault and Rose's fault is full of it. Lutz would be in the same position or worse this year as Major is. That is why he put together easy schedules to try to save his job.
How can a school with over 90,000 grads, over 25,000 students, and a history of basketball success draw only 5,000 fans per game in a bad season and 7,000 per game in a good season?
S is for Six Years Without an NCAA Tournament Appearance!
S = Seven more years before we get back in the A-10 tournament
If Charlotte has an easy schedule that means Majors is worse than I thought
Dang, give the man at least one season with "his" players before yall send Major to walk the plank. If we still suck like this crap this year, then........
Charlotte does have an easy schedule. Look at the teams they've played. They are a bad team this year as they have been the last 3 years or longer. All I am saying is that Coach Major is playing the hand he was delt. There are no players that are playing that he recruited. The schedule was together before he was hired. Tell me what has changed on this team from last year. They lost Harris, Spears(good ridance), and Jones. They added walk-ons. The recruiting season was all but over by the time Major took command. So how can they be better than last year.
You have to read the writing on the walls, and look into the future. Look at the recruits that Major is adding. They aren't 5'9" or 5' 10" guys. They are a 6'7" SF, a 6'3" G, a 6'9" C/PF, a 6'4" SG. Luka is a 6'4" G and Mayfield is 6'5" G. These guys are not top recruits, but they are decent players. Best of all the new recruits will be Freshmen.
Coach Major will turn the team around, but it will take time to get the right guys.
LOL. I see part of the problem. Arguing with each other seems to be more important to some Niner fans than supporting their team. The school was much better off before they lowered admission standards to let anyone in.
Yet you still couldn't make it. Too bad for you.
Majors will not turn the team around! I don't blame him for taking the job, if I had been him I would have taken it too. But it is obvious that he does not have what it takes to be a head job.
My reasoning for that statement is not solely his losing record. It is because the entire season I have observed him throwing his team under the bus. According to him after every loss he has stated the team’s short comings, but can't see his own. No wonder the two seniors became disillusioned with him.
I traveled to NYC and watched the St Johns vs UCONN game. Lavin the new St. Johns coach inherited 10 seniors and yet has been able to get them to buy into his vision. The new coach at Clemson had to remove his top player, yet he has found a way to win.
as long as the current atheltic administration is in office, i will never support charlotte athletics. everyone from rose, spease and whitesone, to hummer and devos to konawalik to the other whitestone. i have more respect for major for having to put up with their shit on a daily basis. they are running the program and ad into the ground at full speed. i am ashamed of my university. so disappointing in so many ways.
Clemson was a far superior team to both Charlotte and St. Johns last year with an RPI of 28 and an 8-8 record against top 100 rpi teams and 13-1 against 100+ rpi teams. I think the new coach there had a lot more to work with than coach Major. Charlotte had an RPI of 73, was 4-9 against top 100 RPI teams and 15-3 against 100+ RPI teams. St. John's had an RPI of 78, was 8-12 against top 100 RPI teams and was 9-2 against 100+ RPI teams. However, you just stated that St. John's has as many seniors this season as Charlotte had scholarship players before booting Spears and Jones failing to perform in the classroom.
You are also comparing Charlotte to a Big East school and an ACC school. They clearly don't have the same recruit draw as the other schools. Each coach is in a unique situation. There is no way to know if anyone else would have been better or worse than Major has. Remember that this guy is in his rookie season as well. Lavin has had 7 seasons as head coach and Brownell has been a head coach for 8 seasons. Give the coach another year before you judge him.
Anon 12:11
Spoken like a true fairweather fan that has never been to a game outside of the free ticket you got in college. You probably never donated a dime to the University anyway. We don't need supporters like you. Take your degree, shove it, and pull for the Tar Heels.
You are the one that said Lutz scheduled easy schedules. Since Lutz made this years schedule, by your reasoning Majors inherited an easy schedule. He is not playing an ACC or Big East schedule thus the same level of recruits was not needed to insure a winning season.
Are you insinuating that you do not believe Major was ready on day 1 to lead the 49ers "remember this guy is in his rookie season?
major will turn it around. give the man a break...look what he had to deal with this season.
yeah the current department sucks, but you can't use their pathetic butts as an excuse. just win.
Can someone give me a reason as to why our Athletic Dept sucks?!? I am honestly curious. That's all I hear about on the msg boards, but never get an explanation from anyone.
Grasshopper you have taken the first step down the path of wisdom. You have sought insight beyond your understanding. Sit at our feet and observe our words and in due time your eyes too shall become open to the world around you.
There is the 20/80 principle. 20% of your people produce 80% of your positive results. Thus your primary focus and energy should be on the one producing the 20%. The others (80%) are valued but they just can’t produce the attention or revenue for the University that the cash cow can.
At the U at C the cash cow at this time is men's basketball (your primary producer)), in the future when football arrives that may change. Thus instead of placing all your attention on Olympic sports (80% producing 20%) you should place your primary focus on basketball and especially men's basketball (the 20% that produces 80%), to insure that it is always healthy; because all the other sports can feed off the cash cow.
When adding a sport like football you need an AD that can multi-task, departmentalize, and set their ego to the side. Which means you have the ability to keep your primary sports (men’s basket) healthy while you are also developing the new sports (football). None of that is happening is at the U at C grasshopper, none of that is happening. Now go out and face the world.
An edit of the previous post.
Grasshopper you have taken the first step down the path of wisdom. You have sought insight beyond your understanding. Sit at our feet and observe our words and in due time your eyes too shall become open to the world around you.
There is the 20/80 principle. 20% of your people produce 80% of your positive results. Thus your primary focus and energy should be on the one producing the 20% producing the 80%. The others (80% producing 20%) are valued but they just can’t produce the attention or revenue for the University that the cash cow can.
At the U at C the cash cow at this time is men's basketball (your primary producer)), in the future when football arrives that may change. Thus instead of placing all your attention on Olympic sports (80% producing 20%) you should place your primary focus on basketball and especially men's basketball (the 20% that produces 80%), to insure that it is always healthy; because all the other sports can feed off the cash cow.
When adding a sport like football you need an AD that can multi-task, departmentalize, and set their ego to the side. Which means you have the ability to keep your primary sports (men’s basket) healthy while you are also developing the new sports (football). None of that is happening is at the U at C grasshopper, none of that is happening. Now go out and face the world.
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