Forde on State: "This job has cooties"
A must-read from columnist Pat Forde is up at ESPN.com in which he announces he is not a candidate for the N.C. State coaching vacancy:
I figured I should make this announcement now, before the coaches at Savannah State, Ithaca College and Fayetteville 71st High School beat me to it. They seem to be the only guys left who haven't yet pulled their hats out of the Wolfpack's Ring of Despair. Nobody likes to be the last guest to leave a sagging party, you know?
In going on to list all the actual coaches who have announced their non-candidacies for the job, Forde reaches the logical conclusion: "This job has cooties."
And he expects Winthrop's Gregg Marshall to be the last, lonely girl at the bar, available if the Pack gets desperate.
Well, I'd say at this point, Fowler should've had more up-and-coming mid-major coaches on his radar to start with. He had to take a run at Rick Barnes and John Calipari, sure, but I'm certainly not enthralled by his Plan B. If he, in fact, had one.
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Jeff, the punch line is in the current NC State alumni magazine. There is an interview with Fowler called.....wait......wait....."On Hiring"
Yes, that's right the great personnel expert shares his wisdom about filling open coaching positions. Man, I wish it was posted on line.
Posted on May 2, 2006 7:43 PM
"...the school has generally shunned head coaches moving up from mid-major conferences."
I guess Forde is talking about just this hire and not historically.
Posted on May 2, 2006 7:58 PM