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 […]
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Fowler Makes His Performance a Public Issue; Sidney Lowe Q&A with Chip Alexander
There is an awful lot of interesting stuff for a Daily Update for it be a random Friday afternoon in late April. SFN will definitely have a lot more on the topics included in this entry in the coming days, but we wanted to get this out there for your comments as soon as possible. […]
ACC Championship Weekend yields no titles for Pack
The Atlantic Coast Conference hosted a series of Championships this weekend that provided 33% of Atlantic Coast Conference members an ACC Championship when: * Florida State won its FIRST men’s golf championship * Virginia won men’s tennis * Clemson won the women’s tennis championship * Duke won women’s golf Additionally, we haven’t yet taken the […]
ACC Track: Men meet Lee’s original benchmark with 3rd place showing; Women meet new benchmark with 11th place finish
Congratulations to the Men’s track team for posting a 3rd place finish at this year’s ACC Track Championship. This is the highest performance of the winter/spring sports schedule among NC State athletics. At the end of Friday, NC State’s men stood atop the ACC Track and Field Championship standings behind solid scoring performances in the […]
N&O: The College Inn – An Address of Choice
We will have more about this later…but wanted to post the link so everyone could comment on the article. since this is a potential NCAA compliance issue. Just another example of what absentee management will do for you when you have someone unwilling to LEAD and unable to manage ALL of the moving pieces of […]
“Coach” Fowler, Habitual No-Show
Lee Fowler must be a busy man with his fishin’ and avoidance of providing direction or oversight for any of NC State’s various underachieving coaches. He certainly couldn’t be bothered to make his scheduled appearance at the Wolfpack Club caravan in Charlotte. We hear this is becoming something of a pattern for “Coach.” In any […]
More “Coach Fowler” Wisdom
Fowler’s talking to Tim Peeler on gopack.com, so you knew that some unintended hilarity would ensue. Although there are actually some good points in the article (SFN heartily welcomes the promised changes in the basketball office), we can’t resist commenting on this nugget: “Regarding basketball, when I was an assistant coach at the University of […]
Why would LSU choose Joe Alleva over Lee Fowler?
Lee Fowler‘s interest in other Athletics Director jobs have not been a secret since his arrival in Raleigh in September of 2000. In the seven-plus years of Fowler’s tenure, the man that likes to be referred to as “Coach” has expressed interest and interviewed for multiple jobs of all shapes and sizes. As anyone who […]
Congratulations Eagles! Ouch Wolfpack!
StateFansNation would like to shout out a congratulations to our conference bretheren in Chestnut Hill as the Boston College Eagles have advanced to their third consecutive Frozen Four, hockey’s version of Final Four’. Although many in the north – including a lot of the BC students – are more interested in hockey than basketball, I […]
YOU Write the Story – How did UCLA and UNC-CH do it?
As many of you already experience and recognize, we feel this blog has some of the most insightful readers and commentors of any fan blog on the internet. It is a regular experience to read an entry on our blog and learn a lot more from the resulting conversation in the comments section than you […]
