Since the baseball team is doing well, Old Lee Fuckoff will cling to that little bit of sunshine like grim death. Too bad both the money sports took a big shit this year. Fire this mother fucker now!

I bet his ass is in church every morning praying for a successful football season.

5/6/2008 4:07:32 PM

Never forget,

Fowler does not deserve credit for the Obrien hire

5/6/2008 5:23:57 PM

but you can bet the farm he's going to claim it.

5/6/2008 5:38:13 PM

I want Fowler gone as much as the next guy but I fail to see how he doesn't get at least some credit for the TOB hire. I mean, he did have the sense to hire him when he came knocking.

5/6/2008 5:59:01 PM

Thats like giving me props for picking up a gold coin

5/6/2008 10:07:19 PM

^^wtf

^

5/6/2008 10:27:33 PM

^^ basically

^3 why not? because TOB called Fowler. Fowler didn't have to do anything.

[Edited on May 6, 2008 at 10:28 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2008 10:28:01 PM

HAHA
as this seems to be one of those thread for "state fans with too high of expectations and demands" as they call us. I support this movement. He basically acts like hes already retired or his job is a walk in the park and it makes me sick, plus i hate loafers with no socks literally and what they symbolically stand for.

5/7/2008 4:35:24 PM

Fowler, we are calling you out.

If you think you deserve to be AD, THEN EXPLAIN our complete athletic failure?

You are accountable motherfucker

5/7/2008 5:24:39 PM

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/index.php?title=wake_up_with_fowler&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Wake up with Fowler
A certain portion(links to statefans nation) of the N.C. State fan base doesn't particularly care for athletic director Lee Fowler.

Fowler will join 850 the Buzz morning hosts Adam Gold and Joe Ovies in studio on Friday at 8 a.m. giving those fans a chance to air their grievances, a mid-May Festivus if you will.



[Edited on May 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM. Reason : Festivus]

5/14/2008 2:33:46 PM

Dear god

this is to good to be true.

Someone with access to that long breakdown of his performance get together good questions to ask him and contact adam or joe ovis. or post it on the comments in the topic on 850thebuzz.com

HOW DO I RECORD THIS THING?

5/14/2008 4:02:30 PM

plz to make a recording...

oh wait, i already know what he is going to say...

facilities, money, student athletes, lunatic fringe, tom obrien, tough schedule, i know basketball

5/14/2008 4:36:09 PM

anyone want to guess the number of times he mentions the facilities?

I'm gonna lowball and go with 3.

5/14/2008 4:49:18 PM

3 dollars on 37 times

5/14/2008 4:51:31 PM

hes actually going to be in the studio for this thing.

seems it should be a very decent interview, as in 20-30 minutes long at least.

5/14/2008 5:58:56 PM

jesus christ, what is he thinking?

5/14/2008 8:39:54 PM

i can't wait to see how he embarrasses us

5/14/2008 9:04:34 PM

This better be available online by the time I get home from work on Friday.

5/14/2008 10:17:28 PM

Quote :

"This better be available online by the time I get home from work on Friday."

5/15/2008 6:34:05 AM

did anyone listen to it? or were you guys all sleeping?

5/15/2008 8:53:56 AM

Quote :

"Fowler will join 850 the Buzz morning hosts Adam Gold and Joe Ovies in studio on Friday at 8 a.m."

5/15/2008 9:10:06 AM

haha

it's friday in my mind?

5/15/2008 9:26:25 AM

Fowler doing that show tomorrow goes to show you how stupid he really is. I can't believe this retarded asshole is running our entire athletics department.

I suspect he will get run over by the callers, and as someone else mentioned, embarrass our University more than he already has done.

5/15/2008 10:31:56 AM

^ and despite all of that he'll be able to still keep his job.

Help us Bobby Purcell (or Charlie Cobb), you're our only hope.

5/15/2008 11:38:24 AM

Given the overall opinion of fans about our AD, why do you think he still has a job?

Purcell could lead the charge to get rid of him if he wanted. Why hasn't he? If Lee is as bad as it seems, what does that say about Purcell's ability to lead and make tough decisions? Or is he only good at going around and taking advantage of our generous fan base?

What about Oblinger? Should he go as well? Why would he put up with such mediocracy?

What do the powerful donors see in Fowler? Why do they put up with him when the fans obviously want him gone?

Any opinions?

[Edited on May 15, 2008 at 12:11 PM. Reason : ^]

5/15/2008 12:11:18 PM

$

5/15/2008 12:33:47 PM

So all Purcell cares about is bringing in $? Then why does everyone like him but hate Fowler?

What I'm trying to find out is why all the hate for Fowler and not the rest of the administration / wolfpack club leadership / big donors? Purcell is treated like a god and yet he has avenues for getting rid of Fowler. Shouldn't he share the blame for allowing this to continue?

5/15/2008 1:28:14 PM

We like Purcell because he is REALLY GOOD at bringing in the money while we are sucking
the wolfpack club gets $$ the athletic department spends it, and currently very poorly

5/15/2008 3:46:14 PM

We need someone who demands excellence from our sports.

Period

Fowler does not.

5/15/2008 3:49:25 PM

Charlie fucking Cobb.

He played football here and is obviously an alumnus and would want us to succeed more.

He already has improved a 1-AA to program from the middle to the top....

5/15/2008 4:05:09 PM

he's been on 850am all morning long

5/16/2008 8:54:28 AM

did he resign on air?

if not, then you couldn't pay me to listen to him talk for one minute about how great the facilities are.

5/16/2008 9:59:29 AM

status?

what have they been discussing?

5/16/2008 10:09:51 AM

but
but
but

the facilities are so great

totally awesome

the facilities are so nice, in fact, that they completely make up for our outright athletic ineptitude

right?

i mean, we may not win any major sports championships any time soon, but if there was a march-madness style facilities tournament, we'd be final four all the way. but this is state, and lee fowler, so we'd be better off settling for a 2nd round exit. thats good enough for a banner right?

[Edited on May 16, 2008 at 10:13 AM. Reason : LUNATIC FRINGE!!!11!ONE]

5/16/2008 10:12:28 AM

i would make such an awesome AD

5/16/2008 10:24:37 AM

it sounds brutal

i'm sure there's a lot of golf and expensive dinners involved

plus when you do your job at a VERY mediocre level, the equally mediocre chancellor of your university gives you a fucking award for excellence.

i mean, who would want that job

5/16/2008 10:27:28 AM

Quote :

"status? what have they been discussing?"

5/16/2008 10:29:43 AM

whtmike2k pretty much summed it up

he got some tuff calls, but you know how politicians roll...dodging and quasi answering some of the stuff, and usually ending with a pep talk

Quote :

"NC State AD Lee Fowler stopped by the studio this morning and answered our questions for an hour. He also took questions from several callers, ranging from the cost of seeing Wolfpack sports to the negative perception of the university."

here's the archived stream

http://www.850thebuzz.com/blog/?p=4499

[Edited on May 16, 2008 at 11:40 AM. Reason : +]

5/16/2008 11:30:58 AM

lol and i didn't even listen to it

i've just heard lee fowler respond to criticism before, it's always the same. i imagine ^ that stuff went something like this:

Quote :

"ranging from the cost of seeing Wolfpack sports "

response: "well we've got top-notch facilities in place, these facilities are so nice and they were really expensive, it costs a lot to fund facilities like these. you should be honored to get to pay for our craptastic teams, since the facilities are going in the right direction"

Quote :

"to the negative perception of the university"

response: "well i don't think we're perceived negatively, just look at how positive people perceive our facilities. even though the N&O writes attack articles on our school & sports dept regularly, and we do absolutely nothing to defend ourselves or to correct blatant lies, mistruths and biased reporting, i think our championship level facilities allow us to really shine. sure the general masses thinks the university is UNC's red-headed stepchild, but hey, if John Q Public would take the time to compare the improvements of our facilities to theirs then Mr. Public would see who is really on top."

[Edited on May 16, 2008 at 11:47 AM. Reason : d]

5/16/2008 11:46:57 AM

he called out blogs and people who post negative things about our team/coaches.

5/16/2008 1:23:23 PM

lol

what a bitch move

LUNATIC FRINGE

5/16/2008 1:28:33 PM

i agree with him

5/16/2008 1:33:28 PM

Sad thing is, although the facilities have improved over the last few years, I dont think any of them are that great. The Doak was upgraded to a level it should have been on years ago, and the RBC is a boring generic hockey arena (and its not ours anyhow).

5/16/2008 1:34:42 PM

^ It's still nicer than our ACC counterparts' arenas. So it can't be all that bad.

5/16/2008 2:33:43 PM

^UVA and MD's building is nicer (for college basketball)

great we are better than clemson (who beats our ass on a regular basis)

5/16/2008 3:49:42 PM

Sad thing is, although the facilities have improved over the last few years, I dont think any of them are that great. The Doak was upgraded to a level it should have been on years ago, and the RBC is a boring generic hockey arena (and its not ours anyhow).

WHAT DO U MEAN ITS NOT OURS?????
why do people say this
perhaps we dont 100% own it.....but most people dont 100% own their house and calll it theirs

5/16/2008 3:51:24 PM

UMDs basketball facility is not as nic as ours, someone from the athletic office there has told me he wished they would have gone bigger and better, like the rbc center, ive seen the comcast joint its not that hot.

UVA i dont know about

5/16/2008 3:52:36 PM

this one dude called in saying why is our sports marketing department difficult to work with from the medias standpoint?

.....id say thats one good thing lee is doing, fuck the sports media, especially the N&O, they usually print negative thigns about us anyways

5/16/2008 3:56:07 PM

UVA is newer anyhow

5/16/2008 3:59:32 PM

Quote :

"WHAT DO U MEAN ITS NOT OURS????? why do people say this"

b/c it's not ours.

5/16/2008 4:01:04 PM