(07-28-2022 05:12 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 04:26 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 03:55 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 02:27 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 02:10 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  yeah, similar to the dump that is most of Boone proper, including that ugly ass App campus.......nothing but stoners, strip malls and fast food places.

King Street is the worst. Breweries, restaurants, live music, roof top bars....

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/trave...olina.html

I'd much rather visit University City. "It's really scary"

https://www.wbtv.com/2022/07/21/its-real...city-area/

Downtown Boone is a dump! I realize you guys like to pretend its great, but it actually isn't. I love Blowing Rock and even West Jefferson, but Boone----hell no. We literally make a point to go around that "town" when traveling between BR and WJ.

That's fine. That's your opinion. NY Times, Outdoor Mag, Forbes, etc, all disagree with you. They think it's a special place too. I wouldn't expect UNCC fans to see Boone for what it is.

Now lets talk facts not opinion. University City has a crime problem that has turned lethal this week with multiple murders. You have student that are scared. The link from WBTV has a student stating he's moving away because it has gotten so bad. This is sad, and a problem for UNCC and the whole city.

You and I both know those publications do very little research for these things and fir certain any positive reviews about "Boone" are based upon areas around/outside of the town. They sure as hell aren't impressed with the strip malls and fast food places along 321 which is 90% of the town,but you keep promoting your false narrative. Also, you can't possibly believe that Boone bares any resemblance to BR, WJ or BE......come on man.

Lol! I trust their unbiased opinion over embittered UNCC fans. BTW the NY times article is literally based on spending 36 hours in Boone, not desk top research. Yes we have fast food and strip malls. Its a town right? No false narrative here. However you falsely claim that's all their is. Downtown is a gem. Boone is a college town. Blowing Rock and Jefferson are not. I never claimed there was any resemblance. All three towns are unique and worth the trip.

University City has crime. Lots of it. Hopefully it comes to an end. No false narrative there either.

(07-28-2022 02:52 PM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 02:23 PM)40smokingcannon Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 02:08 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 01:54 PM)40smokingcannon Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 09:50 AM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says an eCu fan riding the light rail would be hilarious, like a turtle driving an f1 car

So the fancy city train doesn't connect the world's 6th busiest airport to the downtown area of the nations 16th largest city? Nor does the choo choo connect the airport directly to commuter rail? And it doesn't connect the airport to the fastest growing university in University City? Sheesh. I was under the impression Charlotte was urban and stuff. City Planning fail.

That has zero to do with UNC Charlotte..........there are some idiots running Charlotte city government, no doubt about that.

Please tell me you can take the light rail train directly to the NFL stadium. That would be nuts if you couldn't.

The rail goes uptown, which is where the stadium is. The closest stop is about 4 blocks away, so yes.

These things aren't all built in one go. You have to start somewhere. Charlotte is doing a good job with it. Started with the South Blvd section. It works and people use it. Then they extended to UNCC, which I assume stays busy. The gold line to the airport is now in the works.



Contrast that with Norfolk, where I also lived for a bit. Anyone that's lived in "Hampton Roads" knows that, while it's one metro area, it's seven little cities (Norfolk, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, Virginia Beach), none of which get along very well. Norfolk decided to start a light rail, but Virginia Beach didn't go for it. The the first section ran from downtown to the Norfolk/VB line (about halfway to the beach), making it useless. They used old existing tracks for it, and my apartment in VB Town Center was about 3 stops stop away from where it ended.

Newtown Station in the below map is the current last stop. So basically just half the left blue line is done, and was completed a decade ago. Useless garbage.

Regarding the Gold line to the airport, i thought they had changed that to be the light rail now and having it run along Wilkinson with a stop at the Airport entrance. And then the airport would have a connector line to the LR. The LR would continue on to the new business complex near the Catawba river - i forget the name of it. I'm sure i'll be dead by the time it gets funding.

(07-27-2022 10:29 PM)chess Wrote:  

(07-27-2022 07:36 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Charlotte is going to lowkey end up being a rival because ECU is going to need to annihilate them every year for perception’s sake. Having that victory is going to become very important to our fanbase and Charlotte is going to want to create parity between us.

That mentality didn't work well for ECU against USF. USF, an up-and-coming program like Charlotte, owned ECU for years. ECU needs to establish a winning program.

We only played them like 3 times in CUSA. They were an upstart, but they also caught us during the Thompson years while they were in the Leavitt years. I view Charlotte and USF very differently.

(07-28-2022 05:29 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 05:12 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 04:26 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 03:55 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 02:27 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  King Street is the worst. Breweries, restaurants, live music, roof top bars....

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/trave...olina.html

I'd much rather visit University City. "It's really scary"

https://www.wbtv.com/2022/07/21/its-real...city-area/

Downtown Boone is a dump! I realize you guys like to pretend its great, but it actually isn't. I love Blowing Rock and even West Jefferson, but Boone----hell no. We literally make a point to go around that "town" when traveling between BR and WJ.

That's fine. That's your opinion. NY Times, Outdoor Mag, Forbes, etc, all disagree with you. They think it's a special place too. I wouldn't expect UNCC fans to see Boone for what it is.

Now lets talk facts not opinion. University City has a crime problem that has turned lethal this week with multiple murders. You have student that are scared. The link from WBTV has a student stating he's moving away because it has gotten so bad. This is sad, and a problem for UNCC and the whole city.

You and I both know those publications do very little research for these things and fir certain any positive reviews about "Boone" are based upon areas around/outside of the town. They sure as hell aren't impressed with the strip malls and fast food places along 321 which is 90% of the town,but you keep promoting your false narrative. Also, you can't possibly believe that Boone bares any resemblance to BR, WJ or BE......come on man.

Lol! I trust their unbiased opinion over embittered UNCC fans. BTW the NY times article is literally based on spending 36 hours in Boone, not desk top research. Yes we have fast food and strip malls. Its a town right? No false narrative here. However you falsely claim that's all their is. Downtown is a gem. Boone is a college town. Blowing Rock and Jefferson are not. I never claimed there was any resemblance. All three towns are unique and worth the trip.

University City has crime. Lots of it. Hopefully it comes to an end. No false narrative there either.

Like I said, keep telling yourself that. Boone, a gem? Haha....that is laughable..... BTW, Charlotte is one of the fastest growing cities in the country, as is the entire Charlotte region. Apparently, its pretty well liked....yes. there is crime, but actually very little on our beautiful campus.

(07-28-2022 03:55 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 02:27 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 02:10 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 11:21 AM)Saint3333 Wrote:  The rail is convenient to get the heck out of Harrisburg after a win and ride back down to South Charlotte for a decent meal.

Unless you live in Davidson or on Lake Norman, north Charlotte is awful.

yeah, similar to the dump that is most of Boone proper, including that ugly ass App campus.......nothing but stoners, strip malls and fast food places.

King Street is the worst. Breweries, restaurants, live music, roof top bars....

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/trave...olina.html

I'd much rather visit University City. "It's really scary"

https://www.wbtv.com/2022/07/21/its-real...city-area/

Downtown Boone is a dump! I realize you guys like to pretend its great, but it actually isn't. I love Blowing Rock and even West Jefferson, but Boone----hell no. We literally make a point to go around that "town" when traveling between BR and WJ.

Blowing Rock? Gross. I'm not saying downtown Boone is nice but damn Blowing Rock is trying way too hard.

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clt asks why are appys posting about eCu? Go back to your shanties!

(07-27-2022 10:45 AM)ODU-Z8 Wrote:  You could have App St, ODU, and Coastal as your rivals every year. 2 with football success, 2 with baseball success. 0 with third-person posters

I for one am not anti sun belt. I don't think we should go there today, but I can see a world where it's our best path

(07-27-2022 02:16 PM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(07-27-2022 11:10 AM)GreenBison Wrote:  

(07-27-2022 10:11 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(07-27-2022 09:20 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  For those interested.

The only part that made me gag is where he said we need Charlotte to be our rival in football.

Jon Gilbert

Meh, I think it will end up being a positive. Play UNCC as the rivalry week game every year.

Think about it. With Thanksgiving break, students are the least likely to be in town for that game. For students in the UNC-system, even if they are out of town, they are more likely to still be somewhere else in NC than anywhere else. In other words, an ECU student that isn't in Eastern NC for Thanksgiving is more likely to be in/around Charlotte than any other conference city. Same goes for UNCC students and Eastern NC.

We can be all USF about this and turn up our nose, but we recruit the Charlotte metro pretty heavily. Over time, we'd probably get more interest out of that game than any of our out of state opponents.

You can't force a rivalry. CUSA has been trying to do that since 2014 and look what happened.

I'd argue that you can in-state. I'll ask the App fans since we actually played them for the first time in forever last year.

Were you excited about the game in Charlotte against ECU, and how would you feel about playing annually?

I was excited since it was in my backyard, plus I got 2 brothers who are EZU grads, one of whom lives in Orange County Ca so it was a good excuse to get together. Obviously if it was an annual affair it would lose some of that “special feel”, but I think it would still engender a lot of engagement for both fanbases.

I think (if it were annual), it would be a cool game to permanently have at BoA and it would be our own version of the worlds largest outdoor cocktail party. Except one side has moonshine and one side has grog.

(07-28-2022 06:29 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 05:29 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 05:12 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 04:26 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 03:55 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  Downtown Boone is a dump! I realize you guys like to pretend its great, but it actually isn't. I love Blowing Rock and even West Jefferson, but Boone----hell no. We literally make a point to go around that "town" when traveling between BR and WJ.

That's fine. That's your opinion. NY Times, Outdoor Mag, Forbes, etc, all disagree with you. They think it's a special place too. I wouldn't expect UNCC fans to see Boone for what it is.

Now lets talk facts not opinion. University City has a crime problem that has turned lethal this week with multiple murders. You have student that are scared. The link from WBTV has a student stating he's moving away because it has gotten so bad. This is sad, and a problem for UNCC and the whole city.

You and I both know those publications do very little research for these things and fir certain any positive reviews about "Boone" are based upon areas around/outside of the town. They sure as hell aren't impressed with the strip malls and fast food places along 321 which is 90% of the town,but you keep promoting your false narrative. Also, you can't possibly believe that Boone bares any resemblance to BR, WJ or BE......come on man.

Lol! I trust their unbiased opinion over embittered UNCC fans. BTW the NY times article is literally based on spending 36 hours in Boone, not desk top research. Yes we have fast food and strip malls. Its a town right? No false narrative here. However you falsely claim that's all their is. Downtown is a gem. Boone is a college town. Blowing Rock and Jefferson are not. I never claimed there was any resemblance. All three towns are unique and worth the trip.

University City has crime. Lots of it. Hopefully it comes to an end. No false narrative there either.

Like I said, keep telling yourself that. Boone, a gem? Haha....that is laughable..... BTW, Charlotte is one of the fastest growing cities in the country, as is the entire Charlotte region. Apparently, its pretty well liked....yes. there is crime, but actually very little on our beautiful campus.

You have your opinions of Boone. That's fine. You can find many reviews from more creditable sources that completely disagree with you. I live in Charlotte. Love it. The area that surrounds UNCC's campus is dangerous. This is not an opinion. My opinion is UNCC is a great school, but in a bad part of town. Too bad it was not built somewhere else. Onward!

(07-28-2022 02:10 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 02:07 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  Actually rail lines to/from airports are typically the worst return in a city rail system, so I'm thankful the city didn't build that one.

The city of Charlotte has a lot going for it. UNCC just happens to be located near it...

The airport is really close to the light rail line, FWIW. They could do it.

They aren't going to (poor decision IMO). They are going to have a stop *near* the airport and use a sprinter bus to go to/from.

Very short sighted. Won't get nearly the use out of it as they would if they had a stop at the airport.

(07-29-2022 07:38 AM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 06:29 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 05:29 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 05:12 PM)PSCNiner Wrote:  

(07-28-2022 04:26 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  That's fine. That's your opinion. NY Times, Outdoor Mag, Forbes, etc, all disagree with you. They think it's a special place too. I wouldn't expect UNCC fans to see Boone for what it is.

Now lets talk facts not opinion. University City has a crime problem that has turned lethal this week with multiple murders. You have student that are scared. The link from WBTV has a student stating he's moving away because it has gotten so bad. This is sad, and a problem for UNCC and the whole city.

You and I both know those publications do very little research for these things and fir certain any positive reviews about "Boone" are based upon areas around/outside of the town. They sure as hell aren't impressed with the strip malls and fast food places along 321 which is 90% of the town,but you keep promoting your false narrative. Also, you can't possibly believe that Boone bares any resemblance to BR, WJ or BE......come on man.

Lol! I trust their unbiased opinion over embittered UNCC fans. BTW the NY times article is literally based on spending 36 hours in Boone, not desk top research. Yes we have fast food and strip malls. Its a town right? No false narrative here. However you falsely claim that's all their is. Downtown is a gem. Boone is a college town. Blowing Rock and Jefferson are not. I never claimed there was any resemblance. All three towns are unique and worth the trip.

University City has crime. Lots of it. Hopefully it comes to an end. No false narrative there either.

Like I said, keep telling yourself that. Boone, a gem? Haha....that is laughable..... BTW, Charlotte is one of the fastest growing cities in the country, as is the entire Charlotte region. Apparently, its pretty well liked....yes. there is crime, but actually very little on our beautiful campus.

You have your opinions of Boone. That's fine. You can find many reviews from more creditable sources that completely disagree with you. I live in Charlotte. Love it. The area that surrounds UNCC's campus is dangerous. This is not an opinion. My opinion is UNCC is a great school, but in a bad part of town. Too bad it was not built somewhere else. Onward!

i wouldn't get too worked up over a butthurt UNCC fan who gets too jealous every time he goes into Boone from the sheer awesomeness so he now avoids it. I hope everyone like him avoids Boone and now and into the future. App States campus is beautiful. We've got some dogs, but thats what happens when you are severely constrained by space. We can't just demolish something, turn it into a green space and build something else nearby. UNCC has tons of space being way out in the low rent burbs. UNCCs campus is nice too, if you enjoy the look of medium rent business parks.

I should know something about that, living near a medium rent business park myself.

I mean UNCC has a lot to be proud about. This view at JR stadium is awesome.

https://twitter.com/Coach_heals/status/1...DVtIfwLsWA

(07-29-2022 08:07 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  I mean UNCC has a lot to be proud about. This view at JR stadium is awesome.

https://twitter.com/Coach_heals/status/1...DVtIfwLsWA

No skyline back there, but I think there is a Hungry Howie's.

(07-29-2022 08:57 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(07-29-2022 08:07 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  I mean UNCC has a lot to be proud about. This view at JR stadium is awesome.

https://twitter.com/Coach_heals/status/1...DVtIfwLsWA

No skyline back there, but I think there is a Hungry Howie's.

My bad... I got hoodooed


https://twitter.com/cstat626/status/1552...bQ5IfgEWVQ

I can't think of anywhere in Boone, except the football stadium (see Marshall game last yr.), where one has to fear for their safety, but half of Charlotte makes you keep a wary eye out.

(07-29-2022 09:31 AM)ultraviolet Wrote:  I can't think of anywhere in Boone, except the football stadium (see Marshall game last yr.), where one has to fear for their safety, but half of Charlotte makes you keep a wary eye out.

Back when I lived in the University City area of Charlotte, I was at a friend's apartment right off University City Blvd (right next to campus) and as I was leaving, a police officer made me go back into the apartment and a police helicopter was flying overhead with the spotlight going... apparently a couple "teens" robbed a gas station or store at gunpoint and were hiding in the complex.

All that said, I wouldn't dare step foot in West Greenville, down W 5th Street.

A couple good ol' boys out in Meat Camp are scarier than anything Charlotte could throw this way. Go hiking and pass one of their shine stills and you might never been seen again.

clt is off to play golf. maybe the appys will head to work at boost mobile soon and leave this chat page

Shittin on the working man. Says everything you need, right there.

So UNCC is Shooter in that scenario?

Weird way to make a point.

(07-29-2022 10:14 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  Shittin on the working man. Says everything you need, right there.

So UNCC is Shooter in that scenario?

Weird way to make a point.

lol ghostinguncc has a noon tee time on a friday in July. Nothing says lower management/hourly like noon or afternoon tee times on a weekend in 99 degree heat. Walked 9 this morning still have the whole day. Just put your nose down ghosting and make your boss lots of $$ and you'll get there one day.