1. Bobby Purcell, NC State $344,013 2. Andy Miller, Fla. State $268,752 3. John Montgomery, UNC $245,923 4. Dirk Kastra, UVA $203,750 5. Jack Thompson, GA Tech $159,625 6. Bill D’Andrea, Clemson $153,000 Triangle Business Journal Leaders of college athletics booster clubs are used to watching their sports teams perform under pressure. But now it’s […]
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Nine Years of Sellouts – What Have We Gotten In Return?
This season is the 9th consecutive where football season tickets have sold out at Carter-Finley. Here is a recent entry about selling out season tickets. For this entry, I am going to focus only on home football games. Set aside the LTRs, gas, hotel and airfare for road trips, donations to the Wolfpack Club, merchandise, […]
The State of State 2.0 – Championships
The new school year is upon us and I still have some summaries of the 2008-2009 season to share, better late than never I suppose. This entry will take a look at conference and national titles for both the 2008-2009 school year, for the 9 year tenure of Lee Fowler as AD and for the […]
Only 12% Of State Fans Dislike Krzyzewski
In a Public Policy Polling release, some interesting numbers come to light regarding North Carolina fans and their likes and dislikes in terms of college athletics. NC State is the second in popularity in NC, with 19% of respondents labeling themselves as Wolfpack fan. Nearly twice as many respondents, 37% identified as Tar Heel faithful, […]
Alums and Fans Under 25 Have Never Seen Glory. Will They Live Long Enough To Ever See It?
In the wake of yet another disappointing basketball season with yet another lackluster ACC Tournament one-and-done, I got to thinking about some of the current students, younger alumni and fans of NC State — and how much I feel sorry for them because they have rarely if ever gotten to feel the absolute joys that […]
The State of State Part Four – AD Battle Royale
In previous entries, several commenters had expressed an interest in some historical statistics for comparison purposes. Below are some conference title and winning percentage stats over the last 22 years for the past five Athletic Directors at NC State.
Late pushes fall flat for Pack; Baseball represents last hope
After failed attempts to garner some kind of notable success by a couple of NC State’s non-revenue sports fell flat this week (men’s golf and women’s softball), NC State’s Baseball team remains as the last primary opportunity for Lee Fowler’s athletics department to do something special and win a “major” ACC Championship. It is something […]
Lee Fowler’s Idea of Improvement
I won’t make this long because it hurts my head too much to type. When Lee Fowler wanted to earn political favor with the more respected and poweful Terry Holland Fowler foolishly scheduled a road game for the NC State Basketball program in Greenville – where: (1) NO other NC State basketball team had ever […]
Fowler Says Fans Won’t Run Out Of Water Tomorrow (Forecast: 78 degrees)
What a prediction!! Good old Lee Fowler and NC State. Reactive. Never proactive. Is it so much to ask that they get something right the first time? N.C. State athletics director Lee Fowler said Thursday that there should not be a shortage of bottled water for Saturday’s football game against Louisville. Spectators at last week’s […]
CUTigers Paints Perfect Pack Picture
If you are looking for a preview of today’s game then we ask you to click here What we have in this entry is a link to a FANTASTIC commentary about NC State Football and Lee Fowler from CUTigers.com. (Wouldn’t it be cool if some in the NC State online media community would choose to […]
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