No Division 1 school accomplished more with its fiscal resources than . Charlotte’s athletic department received first place out of all 134 Football Bowl Subdivision schools in the , which assesses how each institution’s spending habits correlate to the success of its sports teams. The Niners came out on top of a list that included powerhouses such as North Carolina, Texas and Florida.
“It’s a predictor of things to come,” Hill said in an interview with The Charlotte Observer. “As we grow our resources, imagine what we’re going to be able to do with that.” Hill spoke with the Observer at length about how the program aims to bring top athletes to Charlotte through name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, an elevated university profile that could soon lead to new sponsorship opportunities and much more.
This interview has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. It’s not about ‘getting close’ entering Year 2 in the AAC When you took the job in 2018 about six years ago, you told the Observer you at this place. And now, over the past two years, Charlotte’s 18 sports teams have won 13 conference titles.
Thirteen of our 18 have won conference titles in the last two years, which is incredible. And this year, we actually had our highest ranking ever in the , which is the national ranking for athletic departments across all sports. We finished at .
When I first arrived here in ‘18, we were unranked. So this is the second time in the past four years that we�.