Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler […]
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The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 2 (The Bad)
Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler […]
The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 1 (The Good)
Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler […]
Texas A&M AD Reacts to Harsh E-mail
You may have seen this a couple of weeks ago but it was too good to pass up…especially since the timing coincided with Lee Fowler’s last day in Raleigh. Some Texas A&M Aggie fans are disappointed about the results – or lack thereof – of the recent expansion merry-go-round as they were hoping that the […]
Looking at Yow’s legacy from the other side
There has been plenty of discussion about Debbie Yow’s arrival at NC State and what she plans and hopes to do with the NC State athletic program. There hasn’t, however, been much intelligent discussion of Yow’s legacy at Maryland after 16 years of service. Of course there has been the generic message board “response” from […]
Yow makes good first impression
Debbie Yow made her first remarks as NC State’s director of athletics Friday a little after 2, and from initial reaction most people were quite pleased with what they heard. The straight talking Yow talked openly about her goals for NC State athletics and did not mince words about those goals being accomplished. She talked […]
Debbie Yow to be named NC State AD Friday
10:00 PM UPDATE WRAL is now confirming that Debbie Yow will become NC State’s next AD. ORIGINAL POST About four hours ago we hit our message forums and Twitter account guiding you that something was breaking in the search for NC State’s Athletics Director. Around 8:25 pm this evening, the N&O’s Joe Giglio posted a […]
AD search narrows, six left standing
Obviously there is much more to this story than the reports out tonight, but tonight’s development is still worth discussing, even if it’s briefly. Multiple sources confirmed to Jeff Graveley (WRAL) and others Wednesday that the list of possible AD candidates has been narrowed to six. Nevermind the fact that Chancellor Woodson asked for three […]
Pomeranz: Emails About Fowler Didn’t Make a Difference
In a followup to the Ken Tysiac story from the weekend where the Observers’ headline writer claimed that 29 emails made the difference in the status of Lee Fowler’s job, former Technician sports editor and sometime NC State blogger Jim Pomeranz makes sense of it all and injects some much-needed reality: In reality, the idea […]
Big Fowler Article in the Sunday Observers; headline contradicts information in article
Both the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh’s News & Observer ran a large featured article this morning titled – Fowler’s exit from NC State linked to emails. There is SO MUCH here that I don’t have time to start before heading to church! But, we just had to link it and get the conversation started. (Actually…true […]
