Once again, douche bag thinks he knows it all

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" Until Saturday, you thought North Carolina State's search for a basketball coach was going badly. You thought wrong. Until Saturday, N.C. State's search was going beautifully. The Wolfpack hadn't done anything smart like hire one of the ACC-ready head coaches in their own state, but they hadn't done anything irreparably stupid, either. Like hiring Sidney Lowe. Nothing against Sidney Lowe, but N.C. State isn't the job for him. (Getty Images) Then comes Saturday. Lowe is expected to be introduced at a news conference on campus. To save everyone time, Wolfpack officials were expected to supply the media with crates of rotten tomatoes to hurl -- rhymes with Thurl, a former N.C. State teammate -- at Lowe. In hiring Lowe, an assistant with the Detroit Pistons, N.C. State has hired a coach who has: 1. Never coached in college. 2. Been fired twice as a head coach in the NBA, with one of the worst records (79-218) in league history. 3. Presumably won't join N.C. State full time until the Pistons are eliminated from the NBA playoffs, which -- unless Lowe starts coaching the team -- won't happen until late June. 4. Doesn't have a college degree. 5. Will be getting that degree from a small school in Virginia. Apparently this is an online or mail-order degree, because Lowe reportedly will finish up in June despite spending the entire semester with the Pistons. That about covers it. On the bright side, Lowe does have the following going for him: 1. Um. 2. I'm thinking. 3. Check? Lowe played on N.C. State's national championship team in 1983, which makes him qualified to appear at autograph shows in the greater Raleigh area. It does not make him qualified to assume control of the most -- not one of the most, but the most -- challenging job in the ACC. North Carolina State isn't a place for on-the-job training. It's not a place for a patronage hire, which Lowe is. Supporters of this hire, ask yourself one question and try, please, to be objective when you answer it: Of the more than 50 Division I schools with open jobs this spring, how many would have hired Sidney Lowe? I'm thinking Morgan State, maybe, although Butch Beard bombed so badly that Morgan State might have shied away from another NBA washout. I'm thinking a small school like Texas-Arlington or Furman, for the jolt of name recognition a former NBA player and coach would bring. « Back · 1 · 2 Forget Oklahoma or Missouri or Indiana. Sidney Lowe's application to those schools would have ended in that round, metal file below the desk, the one where Kelvin Sampson keeps his NCAA rulebook. Advertisement But how about mid-level jobs like SMU, UAB or Manhattan? Do you think Sidney Lowe, without a degree or college experience but with a 79-218 record as an NBA head coach, would have gotten any of those jobs? Of course not. And if he'd played in 1983 for UCLA and not N.C. State, he wouldn't have this job either. N.C. State needs someone who can recruit from the national top 100 menu, someone who can sleuth out similarly skilled recruits from the top 500 menu, and someone who can develop a team that can compete with Duke and North Carolina. N.C. State doesn't need someone whose only qualification was that he played alongside Thurl Bailey on the Wolfpack's 1983 national championship team. Sad thing is, this isn't Sidney Lowe's fault. You don't blame a guy for trying to get a good job. Ambition is good. Confidence is better. Sidney Lowe isn't the problem here. Lee Fowler is. After failing to land dream hires Rick Barnes and John Calipari, or solid fall-back candidate John Beilein, or April Fools' Day joke Steve Lavin (and I like you, Steve), Fowler began floating names like trial balloons. Fowler wasn't trying to win basketball games. He was trying to win the news conference. Phil Ford's name got floated. Mike Brey. Sean Miller. Jim Les. Those names weren't embraced by Wolfpack Nation, so Fowler sent up another balloon. Sidney Lowe? Wolfpack fans were ambivalent about Lowe. Considering how badly this search has been botched, considering the ire that has been rightfully raised by Wolfpack fans, ambivalence was progress. Congratulations, Sidney Lowe. You're hired. Save those moving boxes. "

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 11:19 AM. Reason : dont click]

5/5/2006 11:12:02 AM

does this really need its own thread?

this sis the stuff already being discussed by state fans, who cares if he reiterates it?

5/5/2006 11:15:51 AM

oh no, i clicked

all of these clicks support this man

stop clicking

we're Tarholes if we support this guy by clicking

5/5/2006 11:16:38 AM

it is his typical onesided attack, just looking at the numbers, nothing else. It is things like that that lead people to take Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan

5/5/2006 11:17:00 AM

dont give him hits

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 11:22 AM. Reason : nvm]

5/5/2006 11:18:29 AM

my post was dripping with sarcasm in case you couldn't tell


he's not continually slamming us because we click his site....he's doing it because it's all true and we get worked up about the truth

5/5/2006 11:21:47 AM

He makes a few good points.

He has an opinion just like you do.

Imagine that.

5/5/2006 11:26:01 AM

^and a few bad ones, im not saying sid is God, but at least give him a chance before you make him into a worse hire than Pete Gillen.

5/5/2006 11:29:03 AM

I have this weird feeling that we have won the "Matt Dougherty" hire award

5/5/2006 11:33:04 AM

no, Pete Gillen was actually a great hire (when he was hired)

he had a 274-128 record at Xavier and Providence before he went to UVa


that's a great college record

5/5/2006 11:35:37 AM

^ i meant how bad it was looking back, bad example probably

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 11:40 AM. Reason : bc he was miserable at uva]

5/5/2006 11:40:04 AM

looking back, yes

at the time of the hire, it was a GREAT hire


i was just hoping for somebody with college experience

5/5/2006 11:41:33 AM

So is this Doyel?

5/5/2006 11:43:19 AM

HEY DOUCHEBAG

LINK YOUR ARTICLES

5/5/2006 11:47:49 AM

^^ Should you have to ask, no other writer would be ignorant enough to slam us that bad.

5/5/2006 11:50:09 AM

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"4. Doesn't have a college degree. 5. Will be getting that degree from a small school in Virginia. Apparently this is an online or mail-order degree, because Lowe reportedly will finish up in June despite spending the entire semester with the Pistons. "

I think this entire article can be summed up in that excerpt. How does he know that Lowe hasnt been pulling double duty and studying his ass off while also asst. coaching the pistons? How does this guy know anything that he wrote in the article? It's just a bunch of garbage to work up people and get his name out there in the journalistic world. fuck him and his bullshit-laden opinions

5/5/2006 11:51:04 AM

http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/9419409

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 12:08 PM. Reason : didnt know cbs.sportsline.com was so hard to type in dickwad]

5/5/2006 12:07:31 PM

^ this really didn't need to be linked because anyone with half a brain that really wanted to check the accuracy could find it on their own.

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 12:16 PM. Reason : .]

5/5/2006 12:12:43 PM

i was responding to:

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"Josh8315 All American 22469 Posts user info edit post HEY DOUCHEBAG LINK YOUR ARTICLES"

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 12:26 PM. Reason : ^Since apparently he does not have a brain]

5/5/2006 12:25:59 PM

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"2. Been fired twice as a head coach in the NBA"

This is incorrect. He resigned from the Grizzlies.

Let's face it, the teams he coached were COMPLETE SHIT.

Phil Jackson could not have won with those 2 teams.

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 1:02 PM. Reason : Phil]

5/5/2006 1:01:49 PM

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"3. Presumably won't join N.C. State full time until the Pistons are eliminated from the NBA playoffs, which -- unless Lowe starts coaching the team -- won't happen until late June. "

DAMN THAT ONE IS PAINFUL...BUT I LOL!!!

5/5/2006 1:03:26 PM

Since when did Gregg Doyel become the Edward Murrow of sports journalism? He's always been an ass, but within the last year or so he's really amped it up. I still remember the time he said the state of kentucky had more college basketball prestiage then NC. whatever.

5/5/2006 2:06:14 PM

fuck you for comparing doyel to a legend like Murrow

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 2:07 PM. Reason : sggds]

5/5/2006 2:07:26 PM

I meant as far as going out of the way to be objective. Yes I know Murrow was a legend. Murrow did it right but Doyel comes across as a sports talk radio hack.
Good Night and Good Luck was a damn good movie by the way.

5/5/2006 2:11:15 PM

objective:

* undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"
* serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings"
* emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art"

5/5/2006 2:14:11 PM

he just plain looks like a tool

[Edited on May 5, 2006 at 2:31 PM. Reason : 6]

5/5/2006 2:30:34 PM

i like this one....

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" From The Archives » Click Here For The Latest Posts Thursday, May 04, 2006 Sidney Lowe to Raleigh... While Pistons assistant Sidney Lowe's decision to become the head coach at his alma mater (N C State) might have made some shake their heads in disbelief, his decision made a lot of sense. Having spent five years in the ACC, four of which involved covering N.C. State, I understand all too well how Sidney got to this point. Raleigh, N.C. is one of the more beautiful cities in the south, and to be frank, there have been days (usually around November, December and January) when I've really missed the place. And if you love basketball in its purest form, there's not a better part of the country to be a fan (or a coach) in than the ACC. However, while most schools have one really heated rivarly, N.C. State has two - North Carolina and Duke - who are less than 20 minutes away. He understands this dynamic better than most, which is why I think he'll have a much better chance of succeeding than someone without N.C.State or ACC ties. He returns to a place where he enjoyed unbelievable success, and has kept close ties with many of the people in the area. Lowe was well-liked when he played, and the supporters of NCState have always had a soft spot for him. I wish him the best of luck, because he knows better than most, he'll need some in order to get that program to the level it was at when he played. "

5/5/2006 2:33:24 PM

This thing is....this is how it looks on the surface...to everyone outside of the Wolfpack World.

5/5/2006 2:36:04 PM

^this guy has an agenda dude. this aint typical

5/5/2006 2:37:59 PM

speaking of disrespectful:





Jimmy V says: I hate fucking Greg Doyel.

5/5/2006 2:49:31 PM

^To people who even use to think that was funny...it's not anymore.

5/5/2006 2:55:14 PM

it was funny the first time, in a wrongful/shock humor sort of way.

it's not funny anymore though

5/5/2006 3:03:25 PM

kruk is laughing because he hates Jimmy V

ncstatetke is not laughing because it was funny the first hundred times

5/5/2006 3:04:50 PM

We've assembled quite a group of failed coaches.


Maybe a bunch of negatives make a positive?

5/5/2006 3:47:46 PM