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From the Desk of Lee Fowler

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Dear Wolfpack Nation:

I want to put to bed any suggestions made by the lunatic fringe (you know who you are) that coach Chuck Amato will be dismissed today, this week, at the end of this season, or anytime soon. Two days have passed since we lost to the University of North Carolina, and I know I already feel much better about our situation. (Its amazing what a 5th of Dewar’s and 18 holes will remedy.)

All of you ridiculous, contemptable stooges who contribute your hard earned money to sit in the stands with your Lifetime Seating Rights and boo our coaches, or type your uneducated opinions from your inter-nets need to keep one thing in mind: not all Ohio State fans like Jim Tressel, either. Heck, I heard he lost 5 games one year.

Kindly disregard the last three years, which have produced 4, 5, and 2 wins against Division I schools, and a 1-5 record against UNC and Wake. Coach Amato has us on an upward trejectory, you freaks need to give it a few more years. As I have tried to tell you unwashed masses over the years, no one knows more about the situation than I do. I’m not what you’d call a change agent, so just call me “Coach.”

I will never understand your obsession with beating UNC, Wake, or any other school in the ACC. We’ve got us a nice football stadium and Coach Amato has worked hard to bring in another bumper recruiting crop (ranked #51 last I checked) which puts us squarely where we are as an athletics department, in general.

All we need is about 6 or 7 more defensive backs to go with the 21 we have on the roster right now. (In Chuck We Trust, right?). Even though we will graduate 4 of the paltry 14 offensive lineman (3 of them starters) that we have on scholarship, I feel good that the players who weren’t good enough to even see an occasional snap this year will suddenly emerge as dominant pavers next year.

I hope you’ll join me in giving it another year or twenty to see where things go. We’ve got a big game against ECTC next weekend, and we need you to be there hollerin’ for the boys in red (just not at the coaches). The stakes are huge. We have a chance to beat our first I-A in state school this year and to record our 4th win of the season, which will be our seventh best season since 2000.

In closing, Chuck, Kay, and I look forward to seeing everyone this spring when we travel the state. Things are looking real good for our women’s basketball team, too. Our ladies managed to play Purdue to within 30 and even almost scored 40 points!

One final note, you can make your checks payable to: NCSU Student Aid Association. Lets make it eight consecutive years of sellouts!

Your brother in arms,

Lee Fowler

Athletics Director

NC State University

p.s. that plane with the “Fire Chuck” banner just cost us another 2-star defensive back.

cc: ESPN, Associated Press, Reuters, Dr. Oblinger

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63 Responses to Dear Wolfpack Nation (and other national media) — updated 6:19pm with more fun stuff

  1. redfred2 11/19/2006 at 1:40 PM #

    “(Its amazing what a 5th of Dewar’s and 18 holes will remedy.)”

    You went a little overboard there. It’s a new silk shirt, tri color shoes, a shiney new ball, a quick stop at taco bell, and beer at the bowling alley with the whole likewise thinking gang from the office. That’s the perfect ideal of a stress reliever for an imaginative mind like Lee Fowler’s.

  2. Sig1990 11/19/2006 at 1:48 PM #

    Bio on Paul Johnson…very impressive.

    http://navysports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/johnson_paul00.html

  3. Cardiff Giant 11/19/2006 at 1:54 PM #

    Damn. Beat me to it. Now I have to come up with another column.

  4. Lee Fowler 11/19/2006 at 1:57 PM #

    Cardiff, we should have collaborated. There were a few specific things I wanted to say, but you are much wittier with the pen. I thought about shooting you an email, but don’t have your address.

    Feel free to edit the entry as you wish. I look forward to your humor.

  5. gumbydammit 11/19/2006 at 2:03 PM #

    Lee
    You forgot the PS to your letter:

    PS: Go Tarheels! err..I mean.. Go Wolfpack!

  6. richdail 11/19/2006 at 2:17 PM #

    I suspect even Fowler knows that Chuck’s days are numbered at NC State. I just wonder if the powers that be will go ahead and “order” Lee to pull the trigger. We know he wouldn’t do it of his own accord.

    I cannot imagine how anyone could expect anything different after seven years of inconsistency and general decline.

  7. geojim1990 11/19/2006 at 2:17 PM #

    Has everyone seen Jaworski’s (ESPN) article on Phillip Rivers?

    “Jaworski: Breaking down Rivers”
    http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2666089

  8. Lunatic Inter-netter 11/19/2006 at 2:18 PM #

    If Amato goes, Fowler needs to go along with him. I do not want that man leading another search for a revenue sport coach.

  9. 98st8 11/19/2006 at 2:27 PM #

    3-9, can you possibly imagine any of the top 25 programs around the country that would actually keep their coach after that kind of season. Yes, you could probably expect in yr1 or yr2 but this is yr7. Can you think of Ohio St, MIch, USC, MIami, FL ST, FLa, LSU, Auburn, Alabama, Tenn, Texas… or any school that would find it prudent to follow the same course. The answer is a RESOUNDING NO! NO other schools that demand excellence would put up with it.

  10. BladenWolf 11/19/2006 at 2:30 PM #

    Uncle Jed has to go out the door with CTC. Leaving the current AD in place will be as disasterous as leaving Chuckie at the helm of our football program for another year.

    No one likes mediocrity like those two gentlemen.

    If we can’t lure Cowher over by next season, my vote would go to Norm Chow. If he still wants to stay on the west coast, then I’d look at Paul Johnson. And beleive it or not, my next look would be Steve Logan.

    But until we get rid of Jed, our athletic programs overall will continue to be run into the ground. And baffoons like Sendek and Amato will continue to stay around much longer than they should.

  11. NCSUSix 11/19/2006 at 2:35 PM #

    We are not a top 25 program.

  12. Lunatic Inter-netter 11/19/2006 at 2:37 PM #

    Wishlist in order:

    1. Cowher
    2. Paul Johnson
    3. Whoever the best I-AA coach over the past 5 seasons.

    Regarding #3, we need to strive to find the next Jim Tressel (who came from Youngstown State). We do not need some retread like Benedict Arnold Jim Donnan. We don’t need Norm Chow, either. We need someone who has been through the fire, and has had to make critical 4th quarter decisions that made or broke a game. In other words, a “head coach.”

    There are plenty of damned good coaches out there if our leaders dig deep enough to find them.

  13. 98st8 11/19/2006 at 2:40 PM #

    CTUAL transcript of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. This radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10-10-95.

    Americans: “Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.”

    Canadians: “Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.”

    Americans: “This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.”

    Canadians: “No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.”

    Americans: “THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES’ ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH. THAT’S ONE-FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.”

    Canadians: “This is a lighthouse. Your call.”

    The Analogy: The ship is headed in the wrong friggin direction and is going to crash. The little people in the light house are yelling, “change direction before its too late”. The captain of the ship thinks that he is the man running the show and doesn’t have to listen to the little people. “We are the lighthouse Lee. The ship is crashing. Your call”

  14. Lunatic Inter-netter 11/19/2006 at 2:42 PM #

    To add on to my previous post, it is my opinion that anyone other than Paul Johnson will use us like a three dollar whore in leveraging for one of the better jobs that are sure to come open this offseason (Miami, Alabama, Michigan State, and possibly FSU immediately come to mind).

    All of the top 3 or 4 household names are going to wage a pitched battle for those jobs, with NC State long down the pecking order.

    Its the truth that too many of us don’t want to confront.

  15. NCSUDude17 11/19/2006 at 2:53 PM #

    What? you mean Lee didn’t actually write that? WTF? Honestly, Paul Johnson’s option would be great with Russell Wilson, AB, TB, and Blackman. PLEASE HIRE HIM (OR ANYBODY ELSE) WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

  16. redfred2 11/19/2006 at 2:57 PM #

    It’s not just Chuck, or Herb, I am really getting fed up with the whole appearance of NCSU, and have been for YEARS. It is a first rate university in what it does, it has great facilities, and it has it’s own long lists of accomplishments to take pride without trying to compare itself to anyone.

    But all of that is now being managed by administrators who couldn’t represent a junior high school properly. Ask the high school and the junior high kids themselves, that is where the opinion of NCSU really matters. The future doesn’t lie in the hands of a bunch of old men who are stuck in the past and still thinking just like they did twenty five or thirty years ago.

    Let the old money come, but leave their opinions in the past, along with the mediocrity that they have produced. We need new blood at the very top.

  17. drhammondo 11/19/2006 at 3:08 PM #

    Actually, I think Paul Johnson may be first on the list to use us as soon as he produces an 8-4 season with an offensive scheme other than the option/wishbone. Re: Norm Chow–the man is 60 years old–we CAN’T be a “stepping stone” for him, no one will hire a 63 year-old coach. Therefore, if we can lure him here, he will be here until he retires (hopefully 5 or 6 solid years, and he’ll be able to groom someone to take his place, or at least hand-pick someone from another school)!

  18. NCSUDude17 11/19/2006 at 3:09 PM #

    redfred speaks the truth. I go to Jordan high and the opinion of NC State athletics of most casual followers of the ACC is less than stellar to say the least

  19. codsack 11/19/2006 at 3:24 PM #

    I would vote in order:
    Jim Donnan
    Bill Cowher
    Norm Chow
    Paul Johnson
    Bobby Johnson
    David Cutcliffe
    Bud Foster

  20. old13 11/19/2006 at 3:26 PM #

    The sad truth is that the idiot Foulup could have written that! It’s time for Oblinger to backup the comments he made about NCSU athletics when he became chancellor. Otherwise, we can just add his name to the list of NCSU administrators and influential alumni with far-reaching hindsight, no foresight, and satisfaction with mediocrity. That attitude will eventually affect the academic aspects of the university as well.

    Considering age, background and record, Paul Johnson looks like a good choice to me. Although this year has been rough for him due to a very young team, Shane Montgomery should be given some consideration. OR how about PJ with SM as OC!

  21. redfred2 11/19/2006 at 3:40 PM #

    Unfortunately for us, as Cardiff said once again, population growth will always keep student enrollment high at any state run university. And we all know like everything in Raleigh, if it’s barely making the grade, don’t fix it.

  22. Lunatic Inter-netter 11/19/2006 at 4:07 PM #

    I’m 31 years old and graduated in the late 90s, so I’ve been around long enough to see our third basketball coach, and possibly our third football coach.

    Regarding our administration, the tipping point for me when I realized how completely inept our “leaders” were was when the 25th anniversary of our last ACC football championship came and went without even the slightest acknowledgement of their acheivement. This was the 2004 season, and those men didn’t even get a halftime or pregame tip of the hat. Nothing.

  23. redfred2 11/19/2006 at 4:16 PM #

    Lunatic Inter-netter

    That is truly sad, lack lustre, and shows that they can’t see any further than their own noses.

    But it also just accepted and so commonplace with the these people in charge now.

    I’d hate to be one of their kid’s with a birthday coming up. woo wee.

  24. Lunatic Inter-netter 11/19/2006 at 4:22 PM #

    A fine man that I worked for was on that team. That year, I asked if there were any plans to get the team back together for a reunion and if they’d be acknowledged at one of the games. He chuckled and said, “nothing that I’ve heard.”

    I know for a fact that at Clemson, for example, they bring the championship team(s) back at 5, 10, 20, 25, and 50 year intervals and let them “run down the hill,” which is an excellent, high profile gesture, and which also further reinforces the tradition/brand they’ve created of running down the hill.

  25. redfred2 11/19/2006 at 4:29 PM #

    Clemson had Danny Ford up in the booth on national TV with everything set up for video highlights and pictures from the past, in order to take PRIDE and CELEBRATE their past.

    It is rediculous what NC State is saddled with in comparison.

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