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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 5:19 PM #

    Should I mention Sidney Lowe’s, and that of his staff, basketball game in which they were representing all of NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY for THE VERY FIRST TIME, and in what we all hope and pray is a long and successful career as our Head Coach.

    Nah, I’ve said all that already.

  2. jwrenn29 11/19/2006 at 5:35 PM #

    “And beleive it or not, my next look would be Steve Logan.”

    Listening to his radio show on a pretty regular basis he sounds like he’s enjoying NOT coaching a lot. He also was asked by a State fan how he looked in red and replied “My wife says I look terrible in red because it doesn’t match my olive colored skin.” That was before the Clemson game I believe.

  3. SixPack 11/19/2006 at 7:31 PM #

    Paul Johnson : Got steroid scandal on his hands (N&O today) !
    Steve Logan: another “salesman” like CTC (although it would probably be fun for a while until we got tired of his “mouth” and the eventual excuses ….a la CTC. Remember…he got fired from ECTC) !
    Bill Cowher : Nice idea but a pipe dream to WPN just because he bought a house in Raleigh to retire in (certainly better than staying in Pittsburg)!

    Conclusion: CTC will have the full support of JED, Oblinger et al AND get a
    contract extension for two more years (I think that will get him to 2010…to solidify recruiting and continue building on the solid base CTC has established). CTC will be bull headed enough to change nothing next year because, in his mind, there is nothing wrong !

    PS…JED is more interested in making sure that the SFN can get a gallon of windshield washer fluid with a ticket stub, catch a Jiffy Lube T-shirt or win Chuck’s Truck !!!!

  4. NCSUDude17 11/19/2006 at 7:45 PM #

    ^If Chuck is here through 2010 I might just join the Rams Club.

  5. highstick 11/19/2006 at 7:52 PM #

    Join the Rams Club? Heck I’ve been trying to exchange my diploma to a “place that cares”! Seriosly, I know one of the fellows on the “Big Board” and I wrote him last year(jokingly, to some extent) if I could exchange my degree if Sendek stayed.

  6. swerver 11/19/2006 at 8:15 PM #

    My 2 cents on any possible hire. Forget the whole notion of hiring a “defensive” minded head coach: aks Bunting or Amato!

    Hire someone, anyone who has the desire and the knowlodge to light it up. You can always hire a decent defensive coordinator. But you gotta get someone that understands that you get maybe 10 pocessions a game and knows that they want to move the football fast and loose.

    IMHO, it aint that hard to score points in college football given the right plan. And that certainly doesn’t include the flair pass in the flats for a 3 yard gain 49 times a game. Put some fun back in the game.

    Everybody knows the stat by now. Score 24 points a game and you win 75% of the time…………………

  7. NCSUDude17 11/19/2006 at 8:17 PM #

    swerver:

    When you say forget defensivem minded I hope you don’t mean forget cowher.

  8. gopack968 11/19/2006 at 8:28 PM #

    What is Cowhers’ actual contract situation? Is he available after this season? I thought he was not technically available until after 2007 – in which case we might just need to put up with CTC one more year. Otherwise I fear we will have to settle for whoever we get after 2 or 3 good coaches use us for leverage and Miami, Alabama, etc. have gotten thier new coaches.

  9. NCSU88 11/19/2006 at 9:44 PM #

    Sixpack,

    A slightly different take on Navy’s alleged “steroid scandal” in Thursday’s Washington Post
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/15/AR2006111501369.html

    Interesting comparing the two articles, though.

    Bad news, I got beat by ECU on PS2 tonight. Too many penalties, turnovers.

  10. 98st8 11/19/2006 at 9:56 PM #

    “the innernet, is that thing still around”… Homer Simpson

  11. RonTrout 11/19/2006 at 10:20 PM #

    “We’ve got us a nice football stadium (even though we don’t trust you enough to let you in the gates early like every other school in the nation)”

  12. NCSUDude17 11/19/2006 at 10:23 PM #

    Chuck is now 8-16 in the ACC since Phil left, time for a change

  13. rockpile 11/19/2006 at 10:28 PM #

    we should target steve logan. he has coached and recruited in this state for 15 years. he has relationships established with coaches and high school programs which would make for a nice transition for our program. a quarterback guru with much success with blake, crandall, an garrard, this coach would put a smart, entertaining product on the field which we pay our hard-earned cash for. oh yeah, and he beat a miami team coached by butch davis twice. in my opinion, he’s a dick sheridan with an edge. we should consider…

  14. Lunatic Inter-netter 11/19/2006 at 10:40 PM #

    It would be interesting to see how Fowler, Oblinger, Annabelle, and Amato would have handled a similar “steroid situation,” God forbid if it were to happen here.

    I can imagine something along the lines of 3 weeks of ignoring the story all the while fueling rapid media speculation, followed by contradictory and idiotic issued statements from 2 of the above (with Fowler, of course, being one), supplemented with some inflammatory rhetoric from Amato, and some rash discipline issued by Oblinger after an intense and national public relations fallout stemming from a totally bungled “much ado about nothing” story.

  15. stejen 11/19/2006 at 10:49 PM #

    While I am in full agreement that Chuck Amato needs to realize that this is a bad marriage and it would be best for both parties to call for a divorce I really don’t think it is proper to post sartirical posts. For one thing, some people may not realize this is satire and take it to heart. We all know there has got to be some serious talking going on in the NC State administration and now is not the time to be poking fun at them at the risk of spreading rumors. And I will say agian, anybody that thinks Bill Cowher would retire from the job he has now after the way the Steeler administration stuck with him through the good times and the bad times only to take a lower paying job with less presitige has a screw loose. Bill Cowher and his wife are moving to Raleigh and that is the nuts and bolts of the story.
    Steve

  16. NCSUDude17 11/19/2006 at 10:52 PM #

    ^Money would not be the issue, new challenge. probably not, bu who knows, you don’t.

  17. Lunatic Inter-netter 11/19/2006 at 10:55 PM #

    Anyone who can’t recognize this as (sad) satire and at least get a chuckle CANNOT be a State fan.

  18. Dawn Bunting's Barber 11/19/2006 at 11:00 PM #

    Keep Chuck! Keep Chuck! Keep Chuck!

  19. redfred2 11/19/2006 at 11:24 PM #

    Lunatic Inter-netter

    ^Amen.

    I wonder what they would name the newly restructured university in Raleigh, after the NCAA ran roughshod and had it’s way with this latest group of administrators? I’m thinking the early 90’s would look like just a small bump in the road by comparison.

  20. redfred2 11/19/2006 at 11:28 PM #

    Is there nothing at all to occupy you guys in Chapel Hill?

    Wait, don’t answer that, no one really wants to hear what you do do.

  21. class of 74 11/20/2006 at 7:21 AM #

    The letter is not that far fetched given his past statements to the fans. He is the Alfred E. Neuman of AD’s. “What me worry?” What a chucklehead.

  22. 66pack 11/20/2006 at 9:45 AM #

    i believr amato should go but i do agree there will be several programs competing for top tier hc’s.unc was smart enough to get a head start although has butch signed?

  23. BoKnowsNCS71 11/20/2006 at 10:01 AM #

    I’ve been trying to look at this as “just a bad year” and that next year these guys would pull it all together and rebound. I’ve lost my confidence now that this could even happen under the current staff.

    First I think — why did these guys not plan better to get stuck with a QB who was a failure to start with and then a second one whose days at QB ill most likely end after the next game?

    Justin Burke is going to be good after this red-shirt year but are the new recruits and experienced players from this year going to protect him?

    The lack of progress in almost every part of the game — lack of scoring, lack of defense, hardly any interceptions, hardly any blocked field goals, etc. just leaves me wondering where the coaching is?

    I have a friend who is the most die hard, dedicated WP fan and Chuck lover. I heard this past weekend — before the UNC game — that he no longer supported Chuck. That was as significant to me as when Nixon said that “losing Walter Cronkite’s support for the Viet Nam war was the loss of the American public.” If he has lost his biggest fan — Chuck is history.

    I have permanent seats — yet I don’t want to buy tickets for next year. I’ve sold my ECU tickets. Even a victory against them would be hollow.

    So I’ll let you experts have the floor because I just don’t see this getting better. Although, I have to wonder, if we had kept O’cain and he had had Rivers — would we all have said “Weren’t we smart in not firing him?” But then there’s no answer to that — its just “what if” fodder.

    I just want the season to end and move on to becoming a San Diego fan — watching Rivers.

  24. JimValvano 11/20/2006 at 10:28 AM #

    Everyone here has to admit…if Cowher were an option he should be our first choice. The argument isn’t if he is available to us…it is if he were. Cowher should be chin and shoulders above our other options. With that said…what about a guy like Mike Leach from Texas Tech? How about the man behind the defense in Blacksburg…Bud Foster. I tell ya who else I like and have always liked. This guy learned under Norm Chow and is now learning under Urban Meyer. Doc Holliday might be the gunslinger we need. I named some offensive and defensive minded coaches here, but we need to remember that CTC’s ultimate downfall comes from not having an offensive coordinator. We need a coach that understands he’s only good as his assistants…and will allow us to allocate some of the budget to those assistants.

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