NCAA honors 712 teams, 192 schools (NC State not one of them)

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No wonder Lee Fowler was so defensive last night as discussed in this entry, the news just keeps getting worse.

The men’s teams at the two national powers(UNC & Kansas), which met in the Final Four earlier this month, were included among 712 Division I squads singled out by the NCAA for their solid academic performance. Although the total number of teams publicly recognized dropped from 839 last year, 192 schools had at least one team finish among the top 10 percent of all schools in their sport…..….The ACC had 41 teams recognized.Duke led the ACC with 12 teams recognized. Davidson (14) was tops in North Carolina.

The NCAA gives each player on each team one point for staying academically eligible and another point for remaining at the school each semester, accumulating a total of four points per year. The NCAA then uses a mathematical formula to calculate each team’s score. Those scores are expected to be released in early May. A perfect score is 1,000. Teams that fall below the cutline of 925 are subject to penalties, which include the potential loss of scholarships.

Only three schools in the conference had more than 3 teams make this list (Duke, UNC and BC) while only three schools didn’t have a single team make the list (NC State, VPI, and Clemson). Official numbers for all schools and all programs will be released May 6th.

Don’t expect good news for NC State on May 6th. Unless you consider bad news for Lee Fowler as good news for NC State.

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33 Responses to NCAA honors 712 teams, 192 schools (NC State not one of them)

  1. MrPlywood 04/26/2008 at 8:03 PM #

    Lee Fowler is a living, breathing example of the Peter Principle…to wit: “The Peter Principle” is the principle that “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.” While formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in a humorous book which also introduced the “salutary science of Hierarchiology” “inadvertently founded” by Peter, their 1968 The Peter Principle, the principle has real validity.

    The principle holds that in a hierarchy members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their “level of incompetence”), and there they remain. Peter’s Corollary states that “in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties” and adds that “work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence”. It would seem that in the case of the Athletic Dept., most people have reached their level.

    And speaking of incompetence, while searching for a bit of background on Fowler, I came across this tidbit from 2004 when Amato (evidently with Fowler’s blessing) hired CJ Hunter – he of 4-time positive steroid test fame – as an assistant strength coach. Nice.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/mike_fish/08/06/hunter.ncstate/

  2. Bynum State Fan 04/27/2008 at 12:14 AM #

    Redfred2,your posts are the most funny I have ever read on any post at any time in my whole life, while being the most accurate as well. I agree with you 110 percent! Can you imagine any other job in life to where you can get so much revenue for absolutely no results? Even meteorologist do a better job and get paid less.

  3. Bynum State Fan 04/27/2008 at 12:19 AM #

    Hey Redfred2, can I sign up? I want a job like that!

  4. MrPlywood 04/27/2008 at 6:25 PM #

    Ummm – my posts are disappearing. Are they being removed or is there something else going on?

  5. StateFans 04/27/2008 at 8:20 PM #

    Plywood, Akismet is marking some of your comments as spam.

    I had a busy weekend (golfing in a tournament) so I didn’t have a chance to release the five legit comments that were marked as spam.

    We have more spam comment attempts than we have real ones, about 1.3:1 or so by the numbers. Sometimes dolphin get caught with the tuna, but it’s nothing personal.

  6. turfpack 04/27/2008 at 9:01 PM #

    StateFans,
    Is there any way you could tag Lee as spam and cut him loose.
    I’m sorry it just felt good to say it.

  7. 66pack 04/28/2008 at 7:02 AM #

    NCSU atheletic performance is at least consistent for on the field and in academics we are the worst in the acc and ncaa.What award will oblinger give lee for this acheivement?

  8. redfred2 04/28/2008 at 5:50 PM #

    Thanks Bynum State Fan. We have to laugh, we’re watching clowns at work, otherwise we’ll all go postal.

    “And they said there was “lack of institutional control” under V. What kind of term could you use for the Oblinger/Fowler regime? “Clueless”, maybe?”

    Highstick, I think I’d just shorten what they labeled V’s trivial faux pas, and call today’s regime simply a “lack of”. And in every aspect of what is required. The first, and the most the important in my opinion, which was also one that Jimmy V had loads and loads of, being their total “lack of” any imagination whatsoever. There isn’t an original thought, or a leader among them. They’re all just listless followers.

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