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Financing College Athletics – Part 5
CONTINUING WITH A LOOK AT NC STATE FINANCES Part 4 focused on a number of good things concerning financing athletics at NC State: - $180M of facility improvements since 1999 - Outstanding attendance for both football and basketball, even though the product on the field/court leaves a lot to be desired. But one area where [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Athletics – Part 4
30. August 2010
RECAP OF PREVIOUS ENTRIES - The US Dept of Education collects information on financing college athletics from colleges/universities and makes this information publically available at Equity in Athletics (EIA). Most articles you see on this subject take their information straight from this website with an unstated assumption that this information is uniformly prepared and provides [...]
Continue reading...Closer Look at the Directors’ Cup
17. August 2010
The Directors’ Cup is defined on their website as “A program that honors institutions maintaining a broad-based program, achieving success in many sports, both men’s and women’s. Began in 1993-94 for Division I by NACDA and USA Today, it was expanded in 1995-96 to include Division II, III and the NAIA.” All-Time (1994 to 2010) [...]
Continue reading...Debbie Yow’s message already resonating with Wolfpackers
17. August 2010
This entry was originally posted on Friday afternoon (August 13th). We wanted to send it back to the top since the blog typically has slower traffic on Friday afternoons in the summer — This key thread was opened on the message forums earlier in the week, but we wanted to bring this to the main [...]
Continue reading...Tailgating Unlimited, Part 1
11. August 2010
It may not seem like it right now, while we drown in the North Carolina Heat Index and wish that merciless August sun deeper into the southern hemisphere where it belongs, but college football season is once again upon us. And with it the triumphant return of tailgating. The following is the first part of [...]
Continue reading...Debbie Yow brings ‘Wolfpack Unlimited’ in her first day
20. July 2010
What a difference one person can make. As we discussed in this thread that you should take the time to read, all of a sudden many of the points that SFN and others were making while Lee Fowler was employed are finally acceptable to be made by many in the media. Amongst the points – [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Sports – Part Two
19. July 2010
Written by VAWolf, posted by SFN: In the first installment of this series, we set the framework of how to look at financial reporting in college athletics with the following statement: Information is only as accurate and complete as what the individual schools choose to report. There is NO consistent set of standards or normalizing [...]
Continue reading...SFN defends Wolfpack Fans & talks history with Zarzour
14. July 2010
We wanted to make everyone aware that Jeff will make an appearance on “The Sports Drive” with Taylor Zarzour on 620AM Thursday morning (July 15th) at 10:00am. Click here to listen live. The appearance will be SFN & Jeff’s third of the last three months on Zarzour’s program. The first appearance from May can be [...]
Continue reading...The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 3 (The Ugly)
13. July 2010
Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Sports – Part One (Major update & additions 10:30am)
13. July 2010
This piece is the first in a series of related entries that I am doing to discuss the funding behind big-time college athletics. At a minimum, I intend to break down the articles along these lines: (1) Introduction and Organizational Analysis (this entry): (2) A Closer Look at the Numbers (3) Athletic Dept finances across [...]
Continue reading...The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 2 (The Bad)
11. July 2010
Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler [...]
Continue reading...The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 1 (The Good)
8. July 2010
Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler [...]
Continue reading...NC State Athletics Year In Review Summary
7. July 2010
Thought I would share a brief summary of NC State’s performance in the 2009-2010 school year as well as a few observations. For each ACC sport (as well as gymnastics and rifle) I have listed State’s finish in the standings, overall record, ACC record, the ACC champion, the national champion and the finish and points [...]
Continue reading...Sidney Trying To Lowe(r) Expectations For Next Basketball Season
2. July 2010
Sidney Lowe must be talking to former NC State football coach Lou Holtz, a man who was infamous for effusively praising even the lightest of opponents as being world-beaters while talking about his own team as though they were elementary school scrubs picked last in PE for a game of kickball. For example, in the [...]
Continue reading...Yow makes good first impression
26. June 2010
Debbie Yow made her first remarks as NC State’s director of athletics Friday a little after 2, and from initial reaction most people were quite pleased with what they heard. The straight talking Yow talked openly about her goals for NC State athletics and did not mince words about those goals being accomplished. She talked [...]
Continue reading...My View: Dr. Debbie Yow Is Experienced And Successful
25. June 2010
On May 5th, shortly after it was announced that Lee Fowler was leaving NC State I wrote a lengthy list of my idea of the requirements of who would have the best chance of success leading NC State’s athletics into the 2010 decade: In short, State should hire someone who meets this basic set of requirements. Quickly, [...]
Continue reading...Yow: I Would Rather Win Than Be Popular
25. June 2010
Yow’s press conference has just ended. We wanted to open this entry so everyone could post their thoughts.
Continue reading...ACC Media Takes on Yow Hire
25. June 2010
This is great stuff. This is fantastic stuff. Hopefully because of my relationship with Debbie Yow over the last decade plus, I have a more detailed perspective than just about anybody in the media down here. I think it’s an absolutely, positively, overwelmingly great hire for NC State. You are talking about one of the [...]
Continue reading...Debbie Yow to be named NC State AD Friday
24. June 2010
10:00 PM UPDATE WRAL is now confirming that Debbie Yow will become NC State’s next AD. ORIGINAL POST About four hours ago we hit our message forums and Twitter account guiding you that something was breaking in the search for NC State’s Athletics Director. Around 8:25 pm this evening, the N&O’s Joe Giglio posted a [...]
Continue reading...AD search narrows, six left standing
16. June 2010
Obviously there is much more to this story than the reports out tonight, but tonight’s development is still worth discussing, even if it’s briefly. Multiple sources confirmed to Jeff Graveley (WRAL) and others Wednesday that the list of possible AD candidates has been narrowed to six. Nevermind the fact that Chancellor Woodson asked for three [...]
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31. August 2010
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