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As a member of UNC Charlotte's track and field team, I'm definitely excited about football
coming to campus. I think it will be a great opportunity for us moving into Conference
USA for new challenges and greater competition. I'm really excited about football here at
UNC Charlotte. Some of my greatest memories going to school were going to Saturday football
games and the fact that our students will be able to have that same experience is just
really exciting and I can't wait for this fall.
I think what I'm most excited about is bringing the full student experience to our campus.
After I got out of high school and came here for my bachelor's degree, all my high school
friends were rooting for N.C. State or Chapel Hill or whatever football team went with their
school, and now the 49ers are finally going to have the full student experience on campus
and it's going to be fantastic to see it. We expect to see just a huge impact on weekend
programming with the advent of football. So much work has gone in, and it's so exciting
to see the fruition of that between athletics, the athletes, the coaches, the construction
of the stadium. But when you think about all the students, the increased enrollment, more
students living on campus and more residence halls opening, weekend life is just going
to be a lot different here at UNC Charlotte. As a student I'm just ready for tailgating
and just ready for the overall student life to just take off. I'm ready for students that
live on campus, they'll have something to do on the weekends and then the camaraderie
just around, not just the University, but the whole city, I think it will really take
off and make our diplomas look better and better as the years progress.
I think it's going to be a great opportunity. I think the diversity is going to be there
for people to come in from different areas to see what the campus has to offer outside
of the football element. You know football is really, really big here
in North Carolina, so we're just ready to stand amongst the great football school. You
know, "stake our claim" with everybody else, so it's going to be really awesome this year.
I think football at UNC Charlotte is the icing on the cake for this University and region.
We now have 20 Ph.D. programs and a wonderful football team. Come on out!