You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]
Thursday Tidbits
NC STATE FOOTBALL: Matt Carter of TheWolfpacker.com Wed. practice report: Frosh kickers mature A popular topic of conversation surrounding NC State football this preseason will be the kicking game because of the three true freshmen that are expected to handle the punting, kicking and special teams duties. Wil Baumann will boot the punts, Niklas Sade [...]
NC State raising new athletics funds for C-F Scoreboard
Link RALEIGH – Quietly, North Carolina State University is raising as much as $6 million from private donors for improvements to athletic facilities including the school’s football stadium. “We will be purchasing a new scoreboard for Carter Finley that will be a significant improvement,” writes N.C. State’s athletics director, Debbie Yow, in an e-mail about [...]
BJD95′s Wolfpack Club Resignation Letter
To follow up on my late October rant, I have indeed put my money where my mouth is. Here’s my letter, with private stuff I don’t want on the internet carved out: January 19, 2010 NC State Student Aid Association PO Box 37100 Raleigh, North Carolina 27627-7100 RE: Cancellation of Wolfpack Club Membership Membership #******/Ticket [...]
10/15/2005: Letter to the Wolfpack Nation from NCSU Director of Athletics Lee Fowler
Raleigh, NC – Dear Wolfpack Fans: I know this is a time of great frustration and disappointment for all of you who care deeply and passionately about Wolfpack football. As Athletic Director, I can say that we all feel badly about losing–our coaches, our players and our staff, as well as our thousands of fans. [...]
State actually wins a team championship in an ACC sanctioned event (ie: not Bass Fishing) [Updated noon]
As resident SFN Statistician, WV Wolf, posted much fo the following on our message boards this weekend: NC State’s Men’s Cross Country team won the ACC Championship this weekend. (Link to ACC.com) This is State’s first ACC Title since winning the ACC Wrestling Championship on March 3, 2007; spanning a stretch of 973 days. In [...]
Bobby Purcell Makes 80k More Than Closest ACC Counterpart
1. Bobby Purcell, NC State $344,013 2. Andy Miller, Fla. State $268,752 3. John Montgomery, UNC $245,923 4. Dirk Kastra, UVA $203,750 5. Jack Thompson, GA Tech $159,625 6. Bill D’Andrea, Clemson $153,000 Triangle Business Journal Leaders of college athletics booster clubs are used to watching their sports teams perform under pressure. But now it’s [...]
Questions for Lee Fowler [FINAL Update @ 7:30am]
Ladies & Gentlemen, Lee Fowler is going to be a guest on 850TheBuzz tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 8am. The good men at 850 have suggested that we ask our readers for questions to pose to our fearless ‘leader’ as opposed to only taking calls from the same old group of listeners. With this said, we [...]
BMOC: The man who doesn’t make excuses
(Wake Forest Athletics Director Ron) Wellman will soon complete his 17th year as the director of athletics at Wake Forest University. The university’s teams have flourished under him, winning conference and national championships while generally exceeding expectations for the smallest school in the Atlantic Coast Conference and one of the smallest to play major-college football. [...]
Virginia leaves Fowler alone in wilderness of failure
Alternative title: Things I never thought I’d say – ‘Still dreaming of a trip to Omaha’ (Picture above was emailed to SFN from a reader. If anyone out there deserves ‘credit’ then please let us know) Since Lee Fowler became NC State’s Athletics Director, the Virginia Cavaliers – whose overall athletics program ranks near the [...]