At a time when all focus should be on the quest of NC State’s Baseball to reach the College World Series – the Pack will travel to Georgia this weekend – our ‘esteemed’ Athletics Director turns some attention on…HIMSELF, of corse
Yesterday, Pack Pride highlighted an ‘extended interview’ that Lee Fowler gave WRAL-TV5 over the weekend. WRAL-TV also ran similar video interviews with Tom O’Brien and Sidney Lowe. The reason we aren’t criticizing Coach Lowe and Coach O’Brien for their inverviews is because (1) they are actually COACHES and don’t just play one in their fantasies and (2) they haven’t been interviewed at extreme lengths by GoPack.com, PackPride.com, 850TheBuzz and the News & Observer in just the last six weeks!
Anyway, the following is Fowler’s interview. Watch it with a scrutinizing eye for the word ‘facilities’ and you will start laughing like you are watching a John Stewart spoof. Fowler talks about approximately 150 seconds in the first 3 minutes of the video. He says the word “facility” or “facilities’ eleven times in two and half minutes and references facilities (with words like “them”, Carter-Finley, RBC Center, etc) at least seven more times. At least he has his talking points down.
Did you note how we are just now “catching up” to this subjective judgement of how great EVERYONE else’s facilities are? Do you understand that we are just now ‘catching up’ so now we get a new set of excuses of how we must ‘keep up’ and keep focusing on nothing but facilities? You see…it is a never ending cycle of excuses. You NEVER get ahead…even when you have a $166 million basketball arena that is the best in the country and generates no titles.
Can you imagine how many MORE ACC titles Duke basketball would have won if they would have expanded Cameron Indoor, or how much better Wake football and Carolina baseball would have been in the last 3 or 4 years if they would have actually improved their facilities BEFORE their most recent upgrades that are coming AFTER their recent successes?
