North Carolina State University
Fowler: Yow wanted Glance named successor
By Jason Jennings Feb 25, 2009
North Carolina State Athletics Director Lee Fowler wants a nationwide search to find the school’s next women’s basketball coach—despite the wishes of the late Kay Yow.
Addressing the Raleigh Sports Club on Wednesday, Fowler said when Yow was diagnosed with breast cancer again in 2007, she had requested the school name associate head coach Stephanie Glance as her successor.
“At that time, I went to the chancellor. I talked to the [board of] trustees. We felt like that’s not something we really do at N.C. State, where we name the successor for somebody—not in the dean’s office, not in the head of departments, not any of those things,” Fowler said. “We always do a search.”
Glance has served as the Wolfpack’s interim head coach since Jan. 6, when Yow stepped down for the season with her health problems. Yow died on Jan. 24 after a long bout with breast cancer. The Hall of Famer became the first full-time women’s basketball coach at N.C. State when she was hired in 1975.
N.C. State posted the job for the next women’s coach on Feb. 9 and is required to keep the opening posted for 30 days. Fowler hopes to have a new coach named by April 1.
“I think it’s very important to make sure we get the best person,” Fowler told WRAL. “If [Stephanie Glance] is the best person, it will give her credibility in the end that she went through the process and was still the best person picked.”
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RE: Fowler: Yow wanted Glance named successor
Back in 2000, Coach Leon Barmore retired from Louisiana Tech. The women's basketball world expected his longtime assistant, Kim Mulkey, to be hired as his successor. But LaTech got stingy and offered Kim a short contract. After 15 years as an assistant, she expected and deserved a full five-year pact.
Baylor University called and offered Kim just about anything she could ask for. Kim left Ruston, after 19 years, and hasn't been back. In 2005, the Baylor Lady Bears won the NCAA national championship under the leadership of Coach Kim Mulkey.
NC State, you're making a foolish decision. Hire Stephanie Glance as head coach!
RE: Fowler: Yow wanted Glance named successor
Lee Fowler has been at NC State for how many years? and what does he have to show for it? Newer facilities no one wants to come to...Hire a new AD and let him be Facilities Coordinator. He used to work for Memphis and Calipari rejected him, too. What does that tell you about "Uncle Jed"?
RE: Fowler: Yow wanted Glance named successor
Where is Mary Ann Fox when we need her... The current Chancellor needs to show up at Lee Fowler's house for a "visit".
RE: Fowler: Yow wanted Glance named successor
Putting all emotions aside, the choice for a new coach should be about what is best for the program in the long run and not just this year or even next years team. With all due respect to Coach Yow whose legacy goes far beyond "wins and losses", the programs at Duke and UNC have flown by NCSU over the past decade. Do you really think coach Glance is best able to catch those programs? Maybe she is and maybe not. However, without a search, how will we know?
RE: Fowler: Yow wanted Glance named successor
That's fine if they want to do a search or whatever. Now, however, is not the time. He could have waited a year or at least until the end of the season.
I can not stand Lee Fowler and this insensitivity makes me dislike him even more.
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