The Charlotte 49ers will face Appalachian State in a two-game football series beginning in 2018, the schools announced Monday.
The 49ers will host the the Mountaineers on Sept. 8, 2018 at Richardson Stadium; the second game will be Sept. 7, 2019 at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone.
“It’s a game that should be played and I’m glad that we were able to get it on our schedule,” said 49ers head football coach Brad Lambert in a statement. “We’re excited about the opportunity to play a great program from right here in our region. This will be fun for our fans and I’m sure they will be excited as well.”
“Since Charlotte announced it was beginning a football program several years ago, it has been a priority to try to arrange a series that would be great for our student-athletes and fans,” said Appalachian State Director of Athletics Charlie Cobb. “Many thanks go to (Charlotte director of athletics) Judy Rose and (Charlotte) Coach (Brad) Lambert for their efforts in helping the series come to fruition. We hope that it is a series that will extend well past this initial two-year arrangement and become a showcase for FBS football in western North Carolina and beyond.”
“It’s exciting to set up a series with Charlotte,” added Mountaineers head coach Scott Satterfield. “The proximity of our campuses, the similarity of our schools and the familiarity that our student-athletes have with each other from the high-school level make it a natural rivalry. It will be a great series for both schools’ fans and for college football in North Carolina.”
“We are thrilled to make this announcement,” said 49ers Director of Athletics Judy Rose. “Adding a series against an in-state opponent that has the tradition and history of Appalachian State is important to the continued growth of our program. We can’t thank (Appalachian State A.D.) Charlie Cobb and coach (Scott) Satterfield enough. We know our fans have been looking forward to this possibility and it’s a natural step as both programs transition into FBS play.”
By that time, both programs will both be the Football Bowl Subdivision; Charlotte joins Conference USA in 2015, Appalachian State goes to the Sun Belt this coming season.
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Bring on the 49ers!!
Bring on the Mountaineers!
Watching the Whiners get ran out of their own stadium in 2018 on opening day.......will be priceless.
Both will be Appalachian home games!
UNC-Tweetsie's football program will be just as bad as all their other athletic programs by 2018(overall rating for all sports is not far from the very bottom of NCAA). There is a reason no other conference wanted App State.
Both games will suck as no one cares about either team...but CrApp State is irrelevant in any discussion. Awful sports logo, poor recruiting (Georgia Southern has a brand new coach hired three weeks ago and has a better recruiting class), and...well, never mind...even this response about these teams is a waste of time. LOL
Charlotte will kill UNC-Tweetsie.
Keep dreaming.....
Really will be something when more App fans are at the UNC-C "Home" game in 2018......should speak volumes.
9:47......talk about living in a fantasy world.....lol
49er fans should prioritize winning games against D3 schools like Wesley College before running their mouths about beating a long-successful football school like App State.
Anyway, Go ECU!
Yes, 10:08....cause no other brand new team (full of freshmen) has ever lost to a lower division team in year 1.........stupid.
App State will dominate uncc. What a joke of a fan base uncc has and no one shows up ALREADY to the JV FB games.
Yep 2:25, thats why we averaged OVER capacity for the year.....moron. App State dominates NO ONE in ANYTHING and get zero support for anything NOT called football, which has already started to suffer as well..haha, funny really.
Actually, it has been cited on numerous 49er fan sites that the stadium was lacking in attendance down the stretch as loses against "inferior" lower NCAA competition soured the experience for the students and some alums.
I get it, why can't you? No one wants to watch their fledgling football team get smacked around in their own stadium by Div 2 and 3 teams. When Div. 2 HBCU Johnson C Smith wins next year how does that look for local recruiting? I can see that HBCU right now, claiming the Charlotte Football Title......
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