Tag Archive | "Lee Fowler"
Lee’s Last Shot at an ACCeptable Achievement?
Since the beginning of the 1992-1993 athletics season, NC State University is the only full-time BCS affiliated institution that has failed to win single conference championship in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball or baseball. Today marks the start of the 57th Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament, and perhaps the last of almost 57 attempts for a [...]
Continue reading...Must Listen: Taylor Zarzour begins new show with a bang! [Updated at 10:30am]
Thursday, March 11, 2010
We’re sorry that it took us a couple of days to get this posted to the website…but, the comments and perspectives espoused in the following audio by local sports radio host, Taylor Zarzour are timeless. This is the very first segment of Zarzour’s brand new show, “Sportsdrive with Taylor Zarzour” heard on 620 The [...]
Continue reading...Misplaced Praise? Did SFN make a big mistake?
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Yesterday’s entry highlighting the Wolfpack Women’s big win in Chapel Hill over the weekend reminded me of a recent conversation that I wanted to share with the community to see if any of our community members had any insight to share. It started last October when I wrote this entry actually complimenting and praising Lee Fowler [...]
Continue reading...TBJ Reports NCSU lags behind on recruiting spending
Monday, December 7, 2009
It’s really no surprise to most of us here at Statefans that the Triangle Business Journal’s Chris Baysden is reporting that NC State spends much less on recruiting than our rivals down the road. In football the difference is simply (and sadly) astronomical. Here is a link to Mr. Baysden’s article: link. The [...]
Continue reading...The Relevancy of Irrelevancy – Is Lack Of Athletic Success Limiting The University?
Friday, November 20, 2009
Some of the comments on the recent Monday Morning entry got me to thinking about the possible effects of our lack of athletic success on the university as a whole. I have to believe that athletics is a big component of the marketing and identity of a university (and you can make a fair [...]
Continue reading...Fowler, Sendek, Amato and the GSR (Updated @ 1:15pm)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
NC State is currently tied for the worst record in the Atlantic Coast Conference football season as the program heads towards its longest consecutive streak of non-winning seasons since the 1950s. The Wolfpack has been picked to finish 12th out of 12 teams from almost every imaginable source for the upcoming basketball season continuing [...]
Continue reading...10/15/2005: Letter to the Wolfpack Nation from NCSU Director of Athletics Lee Fowler
Sunday, November 15, 2009
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. As I [...]
Continue reading...Shocking – Lee Fowler Still Doesn’t Get It
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Lodged deep within the N&O’s write-up of the upcoming Wolfpack hoops season (all WTNY, all the time, just like the buffoonish duo of Fowler and Lowe want it) is this little gem from Fowler’s always jabbering mouth: Too many times, loyalty’s a one-way street. Fans want the coach to be loyal to them, but they’re not [...]
Continue reading...State actually wins a team championship in an ACC sanctioned event (ie: not Bass Fishing) [Updated noon]
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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 the 56 [...]
Continue reading...The Unholy Trilogy and Other Groups of Distinction
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
On a blog entry on Buster Sports, author Dave Nathan has discovered what he believes to be the three worst college football and basketball teams from 2006 to 2009. There are three BCS schools that have had 3 straight losing seasons in football while also missing the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Of course, [...]
Continue reading...The best thing Lee Fowler has done at NC State
Thursday, October 22, 2009
We catch a lot of flak for our criticisms of Lee Fowler and the manner in which he runs the NC State Athletics Department; and much of that criticism comes from people that are too spineless or too stupid to actually publicly stake their own opinions. But, we choose to educate ourselves on issues and [...]
Continue reading...The State of State 2.0 – Championships
Monday, August 31, 2009
The new school year is upon us and I still have some summaries of the 2008-2009 season to share, better late than never I suppose. This entry will take a look at conference and national titles for both the 2008-2009 school year, for the 9 year tenure of Lee Fowler as AD and for the [...]
Continue reading...You can’t make this stuff up
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Your daily update from the Triangle Business Journal is here!!! So it turns out that the Wolfpack Club is offering trips to Ireland with the O’Briens and the Fowlers during the week of May 15th through May 22nd, 2010. You get seven (7) days of listening to Lee Fowler wax poetic on all things… well [...]
Continue reading...The State of State 2.0 – Women’s Basketball
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Women’s Basketball I. Records ACC Record: 284-168 (.628) ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 216-102 (.679) ACC Record Under Fowler: 68-66 (.507) State’s all-time ACC winning percentage has dropped 5.1% since Lee Fowler has been AD. Our ACC winning percentage in the 9 years under Fowler is 17.2% worse than the preceeding 23 seasons and is statistically significant [...]
Continue reading...Friday Afternoon Discussion Topics
Friday, July 17, 2009
It has been slow recently, but there were a few interesting articles/topics to highlight this afternoon. The first deals with an athletic director “think tank” that for some reason doesn’t include our own Lee Fowler. The topic of this year’s meeting in Durham, NC was athletic budgets in the recession: DeFilippo said it’s difficult for an [...]
Continue reading...Questions for Lee Fowler [FINAL Update @ 7:30am]
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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 are asking [...]
Continue reading...BMOC: The man who doesn’t make excuses
Monday, July 6, 2009
(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. Welcome [...]
Continue reading...Virginia leaves Fowler alone in wilderness of failure
Monday, June 22, 2009
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 top [...]
Continue reading...From the Comments – An Outside View of NC State Hoops
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Long-time commenter (and very gracious guest in Wolfpack Blogistan) nycfan gave a very detailed assessment of our basketball program under the “stewardship” of Fowler and Lowe. Many times, a knowledgeable outsider can give a more honest, objective assessment – since emotion doesn’t get in the way. I just wanted to highlight this comment [...]
Continue reading...NC State Basketball in the News
Friday, June 19, 2009
Apparently there was a press conference yesterday, here is some coverage from WRAL: - Lowe looking to put his own stamp on the program: This offseason, coaches like Tom Izzo and Tubby Smith told Lowe this was his season to put his own stamp on the Pack program. “No question about it,” said Lowe, who has yet to [...]
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Friday, March 12, 2010
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