Friday Morning Round-Up

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====> Technician penned this about some comments made by Lee Fowler.

The irony of Lee Fowler talking about ethics is just too classic. I’m sure that not a single student in that room had the knowledge to know of Fowler’s past role in major violations as an assistant basketball coach at Memphis State.

====> 850 The Buzz’s Blog has been doing a fine job of sharing information recently. And the format of their blog is much improved from its previous look. While we are on the topic of blogs…what happened to the N&O’s blog? It was on fire and now has seemed to have kind of given up.

====> Dave Glenn updated his coaching search entry last night at 11pm. His stuff continues to be the best out there.

According to multiple sources, Calipari remains by far the most controversial candidate among the Wolfpack’s “A-list” targets. Some prominent boosters believe he should be the school’s next priority, while others don’t think he should be considered at all.

Calipari has won consistently at the college level, with successful stints at Memphis (148-59 through six seasons) and previously at Massachusetts (193-71 in eight seasons) sandwiched around an unsuccessful stint with the NBA’s New Jersey Nets. The NCAA ultimately took away the Minutemen’s surprising 1996 Final Four berth after finding several violations involving center Marcus Camby, but Calipari was not implicated in any of the wrongdoing.

====> Since John Calipari SHOULD be the next focus of NC State’s coaching search, I thought that I would highlight an article that came out in the middle of the season from the Charlotte Observer (but was a national piece done by the AP.)

The piece very quickly highlights the difference in Calipari’s standards and those of the past (and present) regime at NC State. You will notice that “finally arriving” to Coach Cal was arriving in the Top 5…not simply squeezing into the NCAA Tournament. .

Calipari living up to the hype
TERESA M.WALKER
Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn.

The day Memphis introduced John Calipari as the Tigers’ new basketball coach, local radio and television stations carried his news conference live to fans and boosters eager to anoint him the program’s savior.
Now in his sixth season, Calipari is finally living up to expectations. The Tigers are ranked No. 5 and, at 14-2 are off to the school’s best start since 1985-86.

“Sometimes I get a little stunned,” Calipari said. “Wow! It took us six years.”

This wasn’t the timetable Calipari had in mind when he left his job as a Philadelphia 76ers assistant under Larry Brown.

Calipari had to recruit more talent and deal with issues such as stocking a weight room, refurbishing a new practice gym that now has NBA-quality video, meeting and locker rooms and renovating an academic center that now has graduated eight of 11 players.

“I said `I’m coming in here to build a program to get us into the top 10 and give us a chance to win a national championship,’ and I haven’t wavered from that,” Calipari said.

=====> Want to see something great? Go to CoachCalipari.com.

Want to see something that you would never see in a Lee Fowler or Herb Sendek program? Go to the “Memphis Hoops� tab and scroll down to the Performance Pledge and then the “Committed to Winning a National Title�

To be a part of the University of Memphis Basketball team you must be committed to winning a national title. To wage that war, we must live together, eat together, study together, condition and play together.

No one can be held to a lower standard! We all must reach the same bar. The more we sacrifice for each other the harder it will be to surrender during the season!

General NCS Basketball

32 Responses to Friday Morning Round-Up

  1. wolfydave 04/07/2006 at 12:58 PM #

    plus if Cal has not been contacted he better have good excuse when he faces a room full of p’o’d WPC reps tomorrow AM…

    I think the comments yesterday quoted by Butch Wilson and the other WPC Board member should be telling signs that Lee is trying to be the lone gunman on this search and is apparently shooting with bb’s….

  2. wolfydave 04/07/2006 at 12:59 PM #

    This hire has to reunite the WPC and fanbase otherwise Lee Fowler will have failed at his job and should immediately resign…

  3. Sam92 04/07/2006 at 1:18 PM #

    site admin: thanks for running this site; i discovered it a couple of months ago and am now addicted

    and thanks for running it with class

  4. WTNY 04/07/2006 at 1:26 PM #

    NY Daily News, November 19, 2004 – “Calipari doesn’t deserve bum rap”

    http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/col/story/254352p-217812c.html

    Interesting read.

  5. BJD95 04/07/2006 at 1:37 PM #

    WTNY – thanks for that link. Very interesting.

  6. GAWolf 04/07/2006 at 1:39 PM #

    Can anyone point me to the Butch Wilson quotes? I missed those. Thanks.

  7. WTNY 04/07/2006 at 2:54 PM #

    GAWolf:

    From “David Glenn’s ACC Journal”

    http://html.wral.com/sh/blogger/2006/04/ncsu-search-continues-update.html

    “‘Coach Fowler operates as he sees necessary,’ said Butch Wilson of Burlington, N.C., a member of the Wolfpack Club board of directors and a former university trustee. ‘When he has something to tell us, he’ll share something with us. It hasn’t reached that point yet. Until then, he’ll move forward — away from the public eye — with a very small circle of advisors, and that’s a good thing. No news can mean good news.'”

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