Hundreds are expected to rally for football at UNC Charlotte on Tuesday, two days before Chancellor Phil Dubois is due to submit his much-anticipated recommendation to the university’s trustees on whether to start a football program.
Dubois has said nothing publicly about which way he plans to go.
But there will be no confusion about the direction the rally wants him to go.
Calling the rally “March to the End zone,” about 1,000 students, graduates and school supporters are expected to march from Belk Tower at 6:30 p.m. to the Belk Track and Field Complex on the edge of campus.
There, Dubois is scheduled to meet with them and receive a makeshift goalpost as a clear sign of the rally’s support. The public is invited.
“The chancellor said he will address the rally but won’t say what he’s recommending to the trustees on Thursday,” UNC Charlotte spokeswoman Buffie Stephens said.
To pay for a team, a UNC Charlotte football feasibility committee recommended increasing student fees by $300 over the next four years. That would require an exemption to a 2006 cap that limits tuition and student fee increases to 6.5 percent a year.
Even if Dubois gives a thumbs-up for a football team, which would begin play in 2012, the trustees aren’t expected to vote on the matter until their November meeting, Stephens said.
Approval from Dubois and trustees would require Dubois to submit a proposal to UNC system President Erskine Bowles.
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