Fowler Speaks, ‘Feels good about program.’

99.9 FM Interview with Lee Fowler

His first comment about basketball is that had Horner made the three-pointer he took with the Wolfpack up four with about 6:20 left, the game might have been different.  Maybe.  But then Fowler says it was back and forth the rest of the game.  Hmmm.  I seem to remember a 19-2 FSU run the rest of that particular contest, but maybe my eyes deceived me.  I’m not a basketball coach, after all.  And no, State wasn’t fouling the entire way down the stretch.

Other comments:

‘We’ve just got to stick together’

‘You have to have talent, you can’t just out-coach people.’

‘All you can is what you can do.’

Fowler also talked about football and said that he and  Tom O’Brien feels comfortable with where the program is.

And of course, Fowler has negative comments about the Internet (and talk radio.)  He says that is shortens the lifespan of coaching tenures by requiring coaches to produce quicker.

He also asked fans to be patient, said help is on the way the next couple of years.

Then he talked about facilities.  I wonder if he has seen the inside of Cameron Indoor Stadium lately?

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58 Responses to Fowler Speaks, ‘Feels good about program.’

  1. Primewolf 01/16/2009 at 8:42 PM #

    This is a BOT thing. Oblinger aint got the jewels to do anything, except give the AD another excellence award.

    My wallet is closing itself to the pack.

  2. blpack 01/16/2009 at 9:04 PM #

    The man just isn’t doing a good job. No ACC titles last year; not looking good so far this year. How fired up is everyone about our hoops team? Not very. He’s been among the poor stewards of our basketball tradition. All on his watch.

  3. turfpack 01/16/2009 at 9:20 PM #

    Removing the AD–Believe me some of the deep pockets are not so happy either.A couple I have talked to are taking notice of the state of athletics and are starting to ask question-but I’m afraid not enough are doing this to make a difference-plus as slow as things move at NCSTATE it would take a while for this to happen and under Oblinger it may never happen.

  4. BoKnowsNCS71 01/17/2009 at 10:06 AM #

    Gosh. I bought wine yesterday (Friday) around 2 PM also from Food Lion. What’s the sin there?

    Now if LF was drunk there — that would be one thing but don’t begrudge the man for liking a glass of wine with his wife and guests over the weekend.

  5. old13 01/19/2009 at 10:42 PM #

    It just occurred to me – is there a connection between all the time that Foulup spends at his lake house and the fact that the only sport at NCSU that has done anything big in his tenure is the bass fishing team!

  6. Greywolf 01/20/2009 at 2:31 PM #

    61Packer
    Jan 16th, 2009 at 8:32 am
    “Come and lissen to muh story ’bout a man named Jed……….”
    Careful, 61Packer, you are insulting a lot of the fan base or did the schools of Agriculture, Poultry Science, Textiles, Forestry, etc., not exist at NCSU when you were there? Perhaps you lived in one of the fraternity houses (Other than Farm House) and didn’t get out to meet the common students from rural NC.

  7. Greywolf 01/20/2009 at 2:52 PM #

    “While the juiced donors care about winning, those above LF only care about the money. Start cutting that off, and we’ll see LF gone.”

    I wonder. What would Purcell do? Stand around and grin and say I’ll get back to work when you fire Lee.

    Start cutting the funds off and we’ll see TOB gone because we can’t fund scholarships for his football team. Start cutting off funds and recruiters from other schools will have a field day with us. Start cutting off funds…

  8. TheCOWDOG 01/20/2009 at 3:15 PM #

    Exactly Mr. Grey. Who the hell are we kidding? If you want to cut funds from anything, find out what’s nearest and dearest to the BOT.

    Hurting our athletic dept. in such a fashion reveals a modicum of ignorance at best. I ask you once more. Who does Fowler work for?
    Anyone care to tell us?

    Once someone steps up here and names the names that Fowler takes his orders from, I suggest a campaign as nasty as what this board often does with LF to be perpetrated upon them.

    No offense Turfpack ’cause I don’t know who you know, but do you think for one moment that one well placed call from Murphy wouldn’t get those BOTs to motivate. As in right now?

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