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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 [...]
Continue reading...The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 1 (The Good)
Thursday, July 8, 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...Fowler wins SE Athletic Director of the Year
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Required Reading: ACCSJ’s Post-Fowler Insight
Monday, June 14, 2010
“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 [...]
Continue reading...Big Fowler Article in the Sunday Observers; headline contradicts information in article
Sunday, June 6, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Happy 25th Anniversary, Lee
Sunday, May 30, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Bill Friday, “Fowler Fan”
Monday, May 24, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...WOLP!! FACK!!! NC State SID’s Office In Action [3:20pm Update]
Sunday, May 16, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...FOWLER’S GONE!!! (Updated 5:00pm, Woodson Takes to the Radio)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Athletic Department Goals – Straight From The Horse’s Mouth
Monday, May 3, 2010
Back in May of 2008 I posted an entry based on these two quotes from Lee Fowler: “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 [...]
Continue reading...Fowler Friday – Horse is out of the barn
Friday, April 30, 2010
You need to accept that you will be doing a lot of reading today. It will be worth it. You may have noticed that after we ran two long “Lee Fowler” entries in the middle of March, we made a strategic decision to not lead with any rumors or speculation on what we were hearing [...]
Continue reading...Lee Fowler to Mississippi State? hits the news – SFN’s update
Thursday, April 29, 2010
At the end of last week, a long time friend of the site made us promise that we would not run a piece of information that he was going to share with us until it became public from other sources. Not expecting it to be that big of a deal, we promised to corroborate his [...]
Continue reading...Technically speaking, it has been a very bad month for NC State
Friday, April 23, 2010
One of the ways that you can gauge the temperature of any topic is the attention that topic garners from seemingly unrelated corners of the world. With that^ description as our guide…NC State – particularly Lee Fowler – is having a rough go of things recently. (1) First, the comedians at Frumpzilla highlighted a recent [...]
Continue reading...Fowler Comments On Rumors About Lowe & His Own Job Status
Friday, April 9, 2010
The rumor mill heated up fast and red-hot this morning with whispers that NC State head coach Sidney Lowe would be relieved of his duties sometime today. It looks as though those rumors are false. According to NC State Athletic Director Lee Fowler, in an article by ESPN’s Andy Katz: “It started in the coaching [...]
Continue reading...Required Reading: Athletics Department Annual Report – Critique, Comparison, Conclusion
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
A quick note — the majority of this entry was originally written around the later part of last summer (2009) after the athletics department released their annual report. For whatever reason the entry never got posted and then got lost in the shuffle during football and basketball season. So, please take that time frame into [...]
Continue reading...Friday Fowler Fodder
Friday, March 19, 2010
It is Friday, March 19th…and, even though we have only mentioned this date once on the blog (click here for the detailed background that you will need), there are a lot of Wolfpack fans buzzing around with heightened anticipation today. Take my advice…relax…enjoy the fact that Sidney Lowe’s Wolfpack men are still playing basketball. To [...]
Continue reading...Lee’s Last Shot at an ACCeptable Achievement?
Friday, March 12, 2010
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 [...]
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 Buzz [...]
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 [...]
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 report sets [...]
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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