I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 3 (The Ugly)
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 [...]
The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 1 (The Good)
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 [...]
Fowler wins SE Athletic Director of the Year
http://www.wralsportsfan.com/ncsu/story/7788889/ This won’t take long. If he’s so damn good at his *^$&#*$($ job, why can’t he get another one? Why was he fired? The SE Athletic Director of the Year Award is now about as credible as the Nobel Peace Prize. I guess now Lee can leave NC State saying he at least won [...]
Required Reading: ACCSJ’s Post-Fowler Insight
“No matter what you think about Lee personally, he couldn’t be trusted to run another search for either football or men’s basketball,” a source close to the situation said. “That (2006 search) was an embarrassment for everyone associated with N.C. State, and I think it will remain Lee’s most identifying moment. And that’s just not [...]
Big Fowler Article in the Sunday Observers; headline contradicts information in article
Both the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh’s News & Observer ran a large featured article this morning titled – Fowler’s exit from NC State linked to emails. There is SO MUCH here that I don’t have time to start before heading to church! But, we just had to link it and get the conversation started. (Actually…true [...]
Happy 25th Anniversary, Lee
Departing NC State Athletics Director, Lee Fowler’s love of the media spotlight is well known to all of us. Quotes from Fowler often find themselves into newspaper articles that sometimes are unrelated to NC State Athletics as “Coach Fowler” made a much higher priority of returning calls from reporters than focusing on finding ways to [...]
Bill Friday, “Fowler Fan”
Over the weekend, the News & Observer ran a fairly interesting piece about the rising costs of running athletic departments. As is usually the case in such analysis, there’s someone quoted for certain hand-wringing over the “big business” nature of modern college sports. And when a North Carolina media outlet runs such a piece, NC [...]
WOLP!! FACK!!! NC State SID’s Office In Action [3:20pm Update]
After NC State’s Sports Information Department provided us this classic little beauty at the Spring Football game, discerning eyes would like to introduce you to the cover of the NC State’s 2010 Baseball Media Guide. WOLP!! FACK!!! in the house!!!! If you are one of our newer readers that may have stumbled across SFN during [...]
FOWLER’S GONE!!! (Updated 5:00pm, Woodson Takes to the Radio)
Joe Giglio at the N&O deserves the credit for being first to break the story. PLEASE click on the link to the story so that the journalist who broke the story can get all of the traffic/credit as possible. It is only fair. Lee Fowler and N.C. State agreed to end their working relationship today [...]