Archive | May, 2008

The State of State Part Three–Meet The Standards

“My goals have always been to be in the top three in the conference. If you’re in the top three you always have a chance to win the championship. That’s an obvious goal as well. Minimum goals, we don’t want to be in the bottom-half of anything.. the bottom-half in any sport.” –Lee Fowler, PackPride.com, [...]

The State of State Part Two–Improvement

Disclaimer: Only facts and statistics will be stated below, you the reader can draw your own conclusions and opinions.

Did NC State’s athletic programs make progress and do better this school year than they did last year? One metric (and certainly not the only one) is to look at regular season conference standings.

State competes in 21 different ACC sports plus gymnastics (EAGL) and rifle (SEARC & GARC). In the 2007-2008 school year, 6 out of those 23 programs finished higher in their conference standings than they did the year before, 11 finished worse and 6 maintained the same standing. All 12 ACC schools compete in the sport unless indicated.

Fowler receives vote of confidence from Faculty Senate

RESOLUTION OF EXPRESSION OF CONFIDENCE IN LEE FOWLER Whereas: The Council on Athletics has expressed to the Chancellor that Lee Fowler “…is an outstanding Athletics Director and has the absolute support and confidence of the Council on Athletics,” andWhereas: Lee Fowler has maintained close contact with faculty through regular attendance at Faculty Senate meetings, and [...]

The State of State Part One — Overall ACC Records

Disclaimer: Only facts and statistics will be stated below, you the reader can draw your own conclusions and opinions.

Listed below are the overall ACC records for NC State’s team sports (teams that have a won-loss record) for the eight year time span Lee Fowler has been AD (2000-01 to 2007-08).

Revenue Sports
• Football: 28-36 (.438)
• M Basketball: 60-68 (.469)
• W Basketball: 63-57 (.525)
• Baseball: 109-104 (.512)

Late pushes fall flat for Pack; Baseball represents last hope

After failed attempts to garner some kind of notable success by a couple of NC State’s non-revenue sports fell flat this week (men’s golf and women’s softball), NC State’s Baseball team remains as the last primary opportunity for Lee Fowler’s athletics department to do something special and win a “major” ACC Championship. It is something [...]