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A National Title in Baseball and a move to the Sun Belt will springboard Coastal Carolina Athletics into the future
by Andy Hilton, recruit757
What a time to be a Chanticleer. If you’re unfamiliar with Coastal Carolina, you won’t be for long. You’re about to hear a lot more about them.
The school that started as a satellite campus of the University of South Carolina has started to carve out their own identity. They’re just minutes from Myrtle Beach, have a unique mascot, and a color scheme of teal, gold and black that you might have spotted in the College World Series.
Coastal Carolina’s mascot, the Chanticleer (pronounced SHON-ti-cleer) may be the most Googled sports item this week.
Taken from the University’s web site:
Chanticleer comes from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. More specifically, he comes from the Nun’s Priest Tale, a story within Canterbury Tales. The Chanticleer is a proud and fierce rooster who dominates the barnyard. For the best description of Chanticleer, we turn to Chaucer’s words. “For crowing there was not his equal in all the land. His voice was merrier than the merry organ that plays in church, and his crowing from his resting place was more trustworthy than a clock. His comb was redder than fine coral and turreted like a castle wall, his bill was black and shone like a jet, and his legs and toes were like azure. His nails were whiter than the lily and his feathers were like burnished gold.” With all of his splendor and great looks, Chanticleer is also greatly feared and mightily respected by all.”
Coastal Carolina was a two-year college in the University of South Carolina system and the Chanticleer was established in the 1960s in order to relate to USC’s Gamecock. In 1993, Coastal Carolina University became independent from USC, but kept the mascot for the sake of tradition.
On Thursday, Coastal Carolina Baseball set a school record with 55 wins in the 2016 season and rode a 55- to a College Baseball World Series Title with a 4-3 win over Arizona in a deciding game three of the series. Interestingly enough, it’s been pointed out that a school like Coastal Carolina wouldn’t have a shot at a National Title in Football because the current system doesn’t allow a decided underdog to compete for the National Title in football. CCU made the NCAA Baseball Tournament as an automatic qualifier (Big South Champions) in the field of 64. They were a two seed in their pod and had to beat #1 seed NC State to advance. The Chanticleers then advanced against LSU, Florida, TCU and ultimately Arizona to win the championship. That’s a powerful list of programs.
In football, a team like Coastal Carolina doesn’t get a chance. It takes too many games to have a bracket that big and the big money that drives the college bowl games won’t accept a change that significant.
The silver lining for Coastal is that they’ll soon be bowl eligible.
On Friday, the Chanticleers moved up to the Sun Belt conference where the football team will play in Division I FBS for the first time. That means more scholarships (63 up to 85). That means more revenue potentially. It’s a huge investment in athletics for the University.
A National Championship. A move to the Sun Belt. It’s a great time to be a Chanticleer.
– Andy Hilton
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