Ever since Brad Lambert was named the Charlotte 49ers’ inaugural football coach in March 2011, preparations have been made for the official start of their season later this year. The next-to-last step in turning the long-held dream of 49ers’ fans int… more »

The landscape of Charlotte 49ers athletics is changing rapidly. You need only look out from the campus' pristine 46,150-foot field house that overlooks the soon-to-be completed 15,300-seat football stadium to notice the dramatic difference. Footba… more »

Conference shuffle creating room for upstarts to make jump to FBS Perennial FCS power Appalachian State is looking for an invite from an FBS conference. UNC Charlotte is building a football program but won't play its first game until 2013. Geor… more »

With Appalachian State making a possible move up to the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision, an opening in the Southern Conference might be forthcoming. Does that mean there's a spot in the league for the Charlotte 49ers' football program, which starts… more »

Charlotte 49ers athletics director Judy Rose will view this week's NCAA president's retreat through a different lens than she normally might use. The focus of the retreat will be potential reform in college athletics, including holding athletes to hi… more »

The Charlotte 49ers football program's first office space on campus was a cramped conference room. "It was more like a closet," 49ers offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen said. "There was one conference table and one grease board. You had to go out in t… more »

The new Charlotte 49ers head football coach has no players to coach. "Hardest part of the job," he says. So Brad Lambert dreams of the day when he will again have players dropping into his office in the morning and sweating through drills in the… more »

Charlotte 49ers Director of Athletics Judy Rose said this morning that the 49ers won't be offered a football-only associate membership by either the Southern Conference or Big South. Rose said she talked with commissioners of both leagues -- the SoCo… more »

School officials at UNC-Charlotte have approached the Southern Conference concerning the possibility of becoming an associate member in football only. UNCC made the proposal during the SoCon's annual spring meetings in Charleston, SC. The 49ers won't… more »

The Charlotte region is a priority for UNCC. UNC Charlotte will begin recruiting immediately for its first 49ers football team, and the Charlotte region will be a priority. With dirt turned for a new stadium, coach Brad Lambert said he plans to… more »

Brad Lambert and Matt Carrick might be getting to know each other soon. Lambert is the Charlotte 49ers' football coach, and today is the first day he can begin recruiting high school players for a program that won't begin play on the NCAA Football Ch… more »

The Charlotte 49ers made their biggest football scheduling announcement yet Wednesday ... but it's eight years away from happening. Charlotte will open its 2019 season against Virginia Tech in the Hokies' Lane Stadium. The announcement comes on the h… more »

A tough economy and some disappointment in the number of prospective buyers who have followed through with a commitment to buy football seat licenses is not slowing the Charlotte 49ers' efforts to start a football program in time for the 2013 season.… more »

UNC Charlotte's already scaled-back plan to launch a football program is increasingly looking like it will be delayed. The school's board of trustees will decide during the fall whether to proceed with a plan to begin play in 2013, or to push the pro… more »

Turning commitments into payments for Charlotte 49ers football seat licenses is off to a sluggish start while school officials are reconsidering the scope of the football initiative. The difficult economy led chancellor Philip Dubois to present a sca… more »