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NC State to introduce Mark Gottfried as new basketball coach

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Well, he knew he was gonna be fired anyway.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Sidney Lowe's career as the head men's basketball coach at North Carolina State University has come to an end.

Lowe's Wolfpack finished the 2010-2011 season tied for 10th in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 5-11 record (15-16 overall).

Director of Athletics Debbie Yow is expected to address Lowe's resignation during a press conference at 6 p.m. Watch that announcement LIVE on WRAL-TV and WRALSportsFan.com.

WRAL's Ken Medlin was told Tuesday that NC State will hold a meeting with the players regarding Lowe's resignation.

In five years at NC State, Lowe finished 86-78 overall with a 25-55 ACC record. He could never top the 20 wins mark and never earned more than six wins in the ACC or finished above ninth place in the conference.

Lowe took over at NC State in the 2006-07 season after coach Herb Sendek left the program for Arizona State University. After considering high-profile coaches like Texas' Rick Barnes and John Calipari, then at Memphis, Yow's predecessor Lee Fowler extended the offer to Lowe, a guard from the 1983 national championship team and former NBA coach.

Between his stints as Wolfpack player and coach, Lowe bounced around the NBA for seven years, finishing with a .367 career field goal percentage, .133 3-point percentage, and an average of 1.7 rebounds per game.

After his playing days were over, Lowe began a 12-year coaching career where he was an assistant coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Cleveland Cavaliers, and a head coach in the Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies organizations. As an NBA head coach he was 79-228.

In his return to State, Lowe made headlines in his first season by posting wins against both in-state rivals UNC and Duke, a feat that Sendek rarely achieved. Sendek finished his 10-year career with a 3-20 record against Duke and went 5-17 against UNC. Four of those victories came against Matt Doherty's teams from 2001-2003.

But over time, Lowe struggled against his two main Triangle rivals. His teams posted a 2-6 record versus Duke and a 1-10 record against UNC. In postseason play, Lowe never measured up to the success of the two teams in blue. He failed to qualify for a single NCAA Tournament and sent two teams to the National Invitation Tournament, in 2010 and 2007.

In that same span, UNC's Roy Williams notched four NCAA Tournament bids, four regular-season ACC titles and won the 2009 national championship. In a year when Lowe finished in the NIT second round, Williams saw his 2010 team run to the finals of that postseason tournament.

Duke's Mike Krzyzewski has five NCAA Tournament appearances while Lowe has toiled at State and won the 2010 national championship. The Blue Devils won the ACC in 2010 en route to that title and finished second in 2008, 2009 and 2011.
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http://www.wralsportsfan.com/ncsu/story/9389832/

NC State is expected to announce the hire Tuesday of Mark Gottfried, formerly of Alabama, as the next head men's basketball coach.

The university has scheduled an update at 5 p.m. Watch it LIVE on WRALSportsFan.com or listen on 99.9FM The Fan ESPN Radio.

"I am extremely excited about this opportunity and challenge," said Gottfried. "I have always had great respect for the tradition of excellence here at state and I look forward to helping build this basketball program into a national contender."

Gottfried will join Adam and Joe LIVE on 99.9FM The Fan ESPN radio at 6:05 p.m. following the university update.

Gottfried played college basketball at Alabama where he most recently was the head coach. Gottfried spent eleven years as the Crimson Tides head basketball coach where he earned an overall record of 210-132, made five NCAA appearances advancing to the Elite Eight in 2004 and led Alabama to their first No. 1 ranking in the AP poll during the 2002-03 season.

"We are so ready for a great coach as NC State," said NC State student Marcy Bullock. "There's so much potential in the ACC and I think the enthusiasm is here on campus and we are going to pick it up."

Gottfried was named the 2002 SEC Coach of the Year after leading Alabama to an SEC championship that year. On January 26, 2009 Gottfried resigned mid-season after meeting with Alabama AD Mal Moore following the departure of star player Ronald Steele.

"The SEC conference is obviously strong and almost as strong as the ACC," said NC State student Luke Barnett. "We have a lot of young talent that I think our coach just needs to tap into and I feel he'll be able to do that for them."

Prior to 1998, Gottfried was the head coach at Murray State where he spent three years and won the Ohio Valley Conference Championship every season. He became the first coach to win three OVC titles in only three seasons. He took the Racers to the NCAA tournament in 1997 and 1998, they ended their 1998 season ranked No. 25 in the AP Poll.

Gottfried began his coaching career as an assistant under Jim Harrick at UCLA from 1987-95. His overall head coaching record is 277-152 and has been out of coaching for two and a half years.

"Let the new coach get in, start putting in plays and running offense and hopefully getting everybody ready for next season," said NCSU student Travis Badgett.

Gottfried is 47 years old and is from Crestine, Ohio. Mark and his wife Elizabeth have four sons and one daughter. His uncle, Mike Gottfried, was a college football head coach and is now an analyst on ESPN college football broadcasts.
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Of the major conferences, two ACC jobs, one SEC, and one Big 12 (or whatever it will be called next season). I hope State can make itself more appealing to good coaching candidates than G Tech, Arkansas and Oklahoma; there's a lot of basketball history in Raleigh.

Sad to see coach Lowe's term at NC State end on such a low note. I had no great expectations when he arrived, but I had hope.
 
As an NBA head coach he was 79-228.

😱 The Athletic Director who hired him was an idiot. Jesus Hume Christ!
 
FUCK YES!!!!!

I was pissed as hell when the assclowns in charge fired Sendek--who did more for the Pack--considering recruiting year in and year out against Duke, the Tarholes, Wake, Maryland, GT and the like, and maintaining a consistently good, and very competitive level of play.

His only problem was that Krycksidkiwki consistently had his number. I think he won maybe 3 games against Duke his entire tenure (the epic 1998 ACC tourney game being my favorite). People didn't like Sendek b/c he was "bnoring." He's a freakin' good coach, and he did more for that team--consider that our academic standards for recruiting are stricter than either Duke or Carolina, (due to Valvano's violations).

I wasn't unhappy that Lowe was hired--but he was a...7th? 8th? choice? after so many top coaches--all who want desperately to play and coach against ACC competition-- walked out do to State's ridiculous expectations and recruiting requirements. Certainly not "bringing our boy back home" sort of situation. I wanted him to do well, he looked..OK that first season, but the writing was on the wall early in the 2nd season. The more I saw him coaching, the more it reminded me that I wish Sendek was still there.

He's wrecked what should have been some very competitive teams these last couple of seasons.
 
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zinfamous said:
*shakes fist at xSauronx

😡
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like i said, i would have attended if i could. some of my cousins are there and love the place.

but for college basketball...yeah...its hard to compete against duke and UNC, what are you gonna do?

/at a much lesser school, but oh well.
// tarheel fan since i was a kid.
 
preslove said:
As an NBA head coach he was 79-228.

😱 The Athletic Director who hired him was an idiot. Jesus Hume Christ!
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well, the job was turned down by many other candidates before he was even considered. Calipari was recruited hard, and was an asshair away from fleeing Memphis before he turned them down. I was so excited when Les Robinson was fired (predecessor to Sendek, he of the cursed red sweater that followed Valvano), and was really wanting Calipari, who at that time, expressed a ton of interest in NC State--he was still at UMass, and was only a season or two later that he would flee to the Nets and suck hard.



so...Lowe was basically the last guy picked. Poor guy.

🙁

In retrospect, though, I'm really glad we didn't get Calipari. Dude is dirty as hell. He reminds me of Harrick--show up at shitty program, instantly build a solid team on a soft, tenuous foundation of massive violations and scandal, recruit All Americans out of nowhere, who had never heard of this school before, flee just ahead of the shit storm. He turned State down specifically b/c the academic requirements for scholarship players at State is so ridiculously high. Calipari likes to recruit the "amphibious" types. 😀
 
lol, reading the end of that article. All they do is compare the success of Kreiwesskcii and Williams--Duke and fricking UNC, to "x coach from State" as the sole validation of the coach's success.

and people wonder why no one wants this job.

:awe:
 
zinfamous said:
lol, reading the end of that article. All they do is compare the success of Kreiwesskcii and Williams--Duke and fricking UNC, to "x coach from State" as the sole validation of the coach's success.

and people wonder why no one wants this job.

:awe:
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srsly though I could see NC St getting a good coach and becoming a power. Dook and UNC both recruit nationally as much as anything. So if you get the second or third best players from NC and the surrounding area every other year, you can compete. Might have to do a better job in evaluating or coaching, but hey. The uberest players they get will only be there for one year anyway.
 
Gibsons said:
srsly though I could see NC St getting a good coach and becoming a power. Dook and UNC both recruit nationally as much as anything. So if you get the second or third best players from NC and the surrounding area every other year, you can compete. Might have to do a better job in evaluating or coaching, but hey. The uberest players they get will only be there for one year anyway.
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we very well could be a good team--but there is the problem with the restrictions that we face. As I mentioned--our academic requirements are tighter than Duke. lol--how is that even possible? 😵

plus, being competitive with the league is fine--that is exactly what Sendek did. What is required at State, however, is to be--at the very least--EVEN with Duke and UNC.

that is fricking insane. NO ONE is even against Duke and UNC. NO ONE. except among themselves. It's ludicrous expectation to enforce. it's fine to want to beat these teams--of course I want to see the Pack beat them more, but these are teams that consistently lose maybe 4 games per year (when UNC is back on their horse, anyway). Now that we don't get to play Duke 2x per year (fucking joke-ass Big East teams joining our league! 🙁), that proposition is even sillier.

Sometimes, I think the Washington Generals have a better chance with the Globetrotters than we do against a Kweritityikkiewes coached team.
 
tynopik said:
doesn't resigning cost him quite a bit of money as they no longer have to buy out his contract?
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Yow acknowledged that he will be paid in full. $900k remaining it seems.


I'm hoping for Sean Miller. He needs to come back!

Though, I admit that his history with the Pack isn't a strong enough argument, on it's own--for him to leave what he has going on now, but I have to lol at some of the "sports journalism" coming out of Tuscon regarding these matters.

They actually try to argue that they are a bigger basketball town than Raleigh? ...among many failures of ncaa history.

lmfao!!

😀

(I really do despise sports journalism. It's always some of the most worthless print put onto paper year in and year out--or spoken from our of flapping lips.)
 
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Yow acknowledged that he will be paid in full. $900k remaining it seems.
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I figured coach Lowe had secured his buyout before he announced his resignation. He loves NC State, but he also has to look out for his future and his family's. Who knows what opportunities, if any, he will find in coaching after this?
I'm hoping for Sean Miller. He needs to come back!
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The nepotism policy at State could work against them here; Sean could be reluctant to return if he can't bring Archie with him.
 
CallMeJoe said:
I figured coach Lowe had secured his buyout before he announced his resignation. He loves NC State, but he also has to look out for his future and his family's. Who knows what opportunities, if any, he will find in coaching after this?

The nepotism policy at State could work against them here; Sean could be reluctant to return if he can't bring Archie with him.
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I don't think that should be a problem. It's mostly an academic policy, no?

It doesn't seem like this would be relevant to a sports team, to me, anyway. If Miller will swing for 3 mill, and the University is more than willing to provide, I'm sure the policy becomes a non-issue.

Besides, they were both on the bench at NCSU at the same time as assistant coach and manager, no? Sure, Sean wasn't Archie's boss or anything.

All I know is, I was hoping State would try to lure Sean back after his first 2 seasons at Xavier.
 
Current rumors have Rick Barnes staying at Texas and Sean Miller planning his future at Arizona. NC State still seems the best open seat for a basketball coach this year, but I really don't know what would be the likely names at this point unless you want to go "hot young coach of the year", which I don't think is the Debbie Yow approach.

Any thoughts?
 
Dean Smith? (extremely credible source--and I'm serious about this), is that he is completely off his marbles these days.

He'd be the perfect candidate for that position.
 
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http://www.wralsportsfan.com/ncsu/story/9389832/

NC State is expected to announce the hire Tuesday of Mark Gottfried, formerly of Alabama, as the next head men's basketball coach.

The university has scheduled an update at 5 p.m. Watch it LIVE on WRALSportsFan.com or listen on 99.9FM The Fan ESPN Radio.

"I am extremely excited about this opportunity and challenge," said Gottfried. "I have always had great respect for the tradition of excellence here at state and I look forward to helping build this basketball program into a national contender."

Gottfried will join Adam and Joe LIVE on 99.9FM The Fan ESPN radio at 6:05 p.m. following the university update.

Gottfried played college basketball at Alabama where he most recently was the head coach. Gottfried spent eleven years as the Crimson Tides head basketball coach where he earned an overall record of 210-132, made five NCAA appearances advancing to the Elite Eight in 2004 and led Alabama to their first No. 1 ranking in the AP poll during the 2002-03 season.

"We are so ready for a great coach as NC State," said NC State student Marcy Bullock. "There's so much potential in the ACC and I think the enthusiasm is here on campus and we are going to pick it up."

Gottfried was named the 2002 SEC Coach of the Year after leading Alabama to an SEC championship that year. On January 26, 2009 Gottfried resigned mid-season after meeting with Alabama AD Mal Moore following the departure of star player Ronald Steele.

"The SEC conference is obviously strong and almost as strong as the ACC," said NC State student Luke Barnett. "We have a lot of young talent that I think our coach just needs to tap into and I feel he'll be able to do that for them."

Prior to 1998, Gottfried was the head coach at Murray State where he spent three years and won the Ohio Valley Conference Championship every season. He became the first coach to win three OVC titles in only three seasons. He took the Racers to the NCAA tournament in 1997 and 1998, they ended their 1998 season ranked No. 25 in the AP Poll.

Gottfried began his coaching career as an assistant under Jim Harrick at UCLA from 1987-95. His overall head coaching record is 277-152 and has been out of coaching for two and a half years.

"Let the new coach get in, start putting in plays and running offense and hopefully getting everybody ready for next season," said NCSU student Travis Badgett.

Gottfried is 47 years old and is from Crestine, Ohio. Mark and his wife Elizabeth have four sons and one daughter. His uncle, Mike Gottfried, was a college football head coach and is now an analyst on ESPN college football broadcasts.
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