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"I will never give any money to NC State until Lee Fowler is gone. A promise is a promise. "

someone needs to start the ***** Official I will Never give any money until Lee Fowler is gone **** thread.

4/7/2006 4:07:11 PM

ok I have the solution if now YOW then we should hire Hodge b/c maybe he can be accepted!! Fowler seemed to kiss his ass

4/7/2006 4:21:52 PM

bring in calipari

4/7/2006 11:06:14 PM

just heard on wral calipari has an 80 percent graduation rate and is 148-59 in six seasons at memphis...that sounds pretty good to me

4/7/2006 11:32:16 PM

Yeah thats actually one of the good things I've heard about him. Now whether or not he's a dirty recruiter is a different story.


Actually though, I heard that Memphis scored just above 900 on that new scoring system used by the NCAA for academics. It wont hurt them this year, but if its below like 930 for two years in a row, you get penalized with scholarships depending on how bad it is.


I wouldnt look too much into that number though, cause our basketball team had a worse score than our football team when we were first scored....and Herb did such a great job with academics and he is god. (and yes, the football team passed, the basketball team didnt)

[Edited on April 7, 2006 at 11:36 PM. Reason : ]

4/7/2006 11:36:14 PM

anyone know memphis' academics compared to ours? like are they a "tougher" school than us?

4/7/2006 11:42:18 PM

Memphis

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"Freshman Admission: 5,131 applied; 3,665 admitted; 2,073 enrolled Average high school GPA: 3.14 Test Scores: SAT verbal scores over 500 63% SAT math scores over 500 67% ACT scores over 18 83% SAT verbal scores over 600 27% SAT math scores over 600 26% ACT scores over 24 28% SAT verbal scores over 700 4% SAT math scores over 700 4% ACT scores over 30 3% "

NC State

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"Admission: 13,610 applied; 9,039 admitted; 4,375 enrolled Average high school GPA: 4.07 Test Scores: SAT verbal scores over 500 88% SAT math scores over 500 95% ACT scores over 18 98% SAT verbal scores over 600 38% SAT math scores over 600 60% ACT scores over 24 61% SAT verbal scores over 700 5% SAT math scores over 700 12% ACT scores over 30 14% "

4/7/2006 11:52:55 PM

^^ I can't find them in the top 100 of anything on US News so far.

[Edited on April 7, 2006 at 11:54 PM. Reason : ^]

4/7/2006 11:53:02 PM

Yeah I dont know anything about that...that was just from a college search engine...peterson's?

4/7/2006 11:55:29 PM

wow that's a huge difference

4/8/2006 12:52:29 AM

just because its easier to get into a school doesn't mean its easier to graduate from it...and also just because its hard to get into a school doesnt mean its hard to gradate cough UNC cough.
i think perhaps their majors might help more than entire school stats?

4/8/2006 12:56:19 PM

I love NCSU, BUT, here are way too many stupid people here for us to have an average entrance GPA of 4.07. That seriously does not make any sense.

4/8/2006 1:39:41 PM

4.07 isn't that great when it's unweighted (As in, 6.0 possible due to AP classes)

4/8/2006 1:43:08 PM

^ True, but you can't take AP classes during your freshman year.

Though, honors classes (5.0) are counted too. Anybody have any unweighted GPA #s?

4/8/2006 1:47:10 PM

^^ 4.0 is the highest you can get unweighted 4.07 is not possible on an unweighted scale at at almost all schools. A weighted scale is what uses Ap= 6.0 and Honors = 5.0 etc.

4/8/2006 1:49:14 PM

eh, you got the point

4/8/2006 1:49:50 PM

Compare the SAT scores...NCSU is a smarter school by that standard.

4/8/2006 3:21:54 PM

i had a 3.65 unweighted GPA upon graduation from hs. i went to a school where that was good for being ranked 60 out 300. pretty much everyone in front of me or around my rank went to UNC/Duke/State/[insert other great school here]. our top 100 were some of the cream of the crop of the public school kids in Charlotte.

4/8/2006 3:34:50 PM

right now

Calipari is the best thing that could happen to the bball team

4/8/2006 4:22:37 PM

4/8/2006 4:29:43 PM

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=81068

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" Calipari focus of NC State coaching search Posted: April 8, 2006 Mike DeCourcy Sporting News NC State is not giving up its pursuit of a big-name coach. It just might not be the name everyone expects. With Rick Barnes insisting he wants to stay at Texas, John Calipari, who led Memphis to the Conference USA championship and a No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed, has become the focus of the Wolfpack's efforts to replace Herb Sendek. The plan is to interview Calipari within the next two days. The Wolfpack would be trading in one former Pittsburgher for another, but that's probably where the similarities end. Calipari has a dynamic personality that will make him difficult to ignore, even in an area that already includes coaching superstars Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams. Calipari is gettable in part because he makes less than $1.1 million, plus incentives. The standard market for elite coaches has grown to more than $1.5 million, including new Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson. Barnes will be raised well above that level to stay at UT. Calipari's base salary has not increased in the past four years. NC State has the resources to put together a huge financial package. The school offered more than $2 million annually to Barnes earlier this week. Calipari has said many times recently that he is not eager to leave Memphis. If he does, he will be walking away from a position of dominance to try to raise State's profile in the ACC. Although Conference USA was weakened as the result of departures by Louisville, Cincinnati, Marquette and DePaul, Calipari exercised a considerable amount of control over league policy. He won't be able to do that in the ACC. He also would leave behind a team that could contend for a national championship, with forward Shawne Williams and wings Chris Douglas-Roberts and Antonio Anderson likely to improve as sophomores. Williams has indicated he is likely to remain for his second college season. Point guard Darius Washington could depart early, but Calipari recruited his eventual replacement by signing prep star Willie Kemp."

4/8/2006 4:38:22 PM

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"Home > Bohl Games Barnes to get $400,000 raise to remain at Texas By Kirk Bohls | Saturday, April 8, 2006, 02:13 PM I’m told that Texas basketball coach Rick Barnes has agreed to a contract raise that will increase his salary more than $400,000 and put him among the five highest-paid basketball coaches in the country. Barnes and Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds have met several times this week and come to an agreement on a salary that will top $1.7 million a year. The news should finally end the speculation that Barnes is keeping open the possibility that he could return to his home state and accept the head coaching position at North Carolina State. The Raleigh News and Observer wrote Saturday that the door was still slightly open for Barnes, a native of Hickory, N.C., and a former ACC coach at Clemson, was considering replacing Herb Sendek with the Wolfpack. “That’s not true,” Dodds said Saturday at the Texas Relays track meet. “All I know is he’s told me there’s nothing there (at NC State). Rick’s been very up front with me. Rick’s in great shape.” Barnes, whose Longhorn team has reached a Final Four and qualified for the Sweet 16 round four of the last five seasons to match only Duke and Connecticut, agreed to a 10-year extension of his contract last year with a salary that was $1.3 million a year. He annually receives a $50,000 bump. "

4/8/2006 4:53:32 PM

I hate it when people say Calipari is our #2. Even if he is it doesn't sound good.

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"The plan is to interview Calipari within the next two days."

Is he trying to claim that is our plan? How the fuck does this tool know what our plan is anyway. He is just simply hypothesizing and regurgitating what he reads in blogs.

Imo, Lee needs to start putting out more disinformation and red herrings. Unless he already is

[Edited on April 8, 2006 at 5:02 PM. Reason : ""]

4/8/2006 4:55:40 PM

just hire him already

4/8/2006 6:57:16 PM

i bet 99% of the speculation in this thread is completely untrue... but on the other hand, it is entertaining

4/8/2006 7:50:29 PM

Well, unlike the Barnes scenario, let's hope that the speculation with Calipari is both TRUE and ENTERTAINING this time, b/c he's pretty much our last shot at a big-name coach. The last thing I would want to see is a mid-major come in when State has the potential to capitalize on such a big opportunity and change it's public view of mediocrity in NC for the next 10-15 years at least.

4/9/2006 2:35:09 AM

[Edited on April 9, 2006 at 2:43 AM. Reason : .hmm]

4/9/2006 2:41:49 AM

^^Gillespie from Texas A&M is still in the mix, and hes not a mid-major coach, unless you consider the Big 12 a non-major conference

4/9/2006 9:51:37 AM

^^^ ummm... Calipari is, technically, a mid-major... CUSA isn't a power conference...
i know, i'm just nitpicking, but still...

4/9/2006 10:27:45 AM

4/9/2006 10:44:35 AM

4/9/2006 12:26:00 PM

ah hell i guess ill post mine too

4/9/2006 12:27:38 PM

Looks like they know something...

Please let this happen. Oh dear God... Lee Fowler I will never say another bad thing about you in my life

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/tigers/article/0,2844,MCA_25363_4607888,00.html

4/9/2006 12:29:56 PM

dweedle


Nice touch with Lee driving

4/9/2006 12:30:45 PM

i was wondering if he would be too small to recognize

4/9/2006 12:32:50 PM

Lee Fowler and the Memphis AD should get into a fist fight

4/9/2006 12:35:07 PM

fowler should shoot at the ground and strike black gold, texas tea, and then give it to Calipari as part of his salary

4/9/2006 12:38:06 PM

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"Please let this happen."

4/9/2006 12:40:32 PM

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"ummm... Calipari is, technically, a mid-major... CUSA isn't a power conference..."

memphis might be a mid-major as a school

but as a coach, calipari is def a major, i mean he has had two teams in the top 5 nationally

4/9/2006 1:18:43 PM

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N88MF

4/9/2006 1:19:28 PM

oops

[Edited on April 9, 2006 at 1:21 PM. Reason : asdf]

4/9/2006 1:20:54 PM

not to mention coach in the nba

4/9/2006 1:23:57 PM

4/9/2006 1:24:43 PM

nice chop!

4/9/2006 1:27:54 PM

T minus 1 hour for takeoff

4/9/2006 1:29:20 PM

come on calipari

4/9/2006 1:44:07 PM

^^^ haha. you should make a thread. "Calipari Signs 5 Year Deal" It would probably get trashed but it'd be funny to see how many people believe it.

4/9/2006 1:44:19 PM

I am going to go nucking futs if I get to see Calipari on the NC State sidelines.

That would be the best hire ever for NC State.. by far. Every other coach we've had was a successful mid-major.

Cal is one of the top 3-4 in the nation, IMO.

4/9/2006 1:51:04 PM

Thanks for realizing my vision, dweedle

4/9/2006 2:13:33 PM

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