Management Decisions

I think we all in life want to be the big dog. The person in charge who controls everyone's movements.

Maybe not in today's world, where layoffs are announced every day. Who wants to control thousand of peoples lives by scratching a line on a roster and saying everyone below this line goes.

I heard today the the CEO of General Motors made $15 million last year in losing $70 billion for GM. What a waste. They could have paid me $100,000 and I guarantee I would only lose 450 billion.

Decisions. They happen every day. With its lost today, the N.C. State women's basketball team finishes a season in which is probably the most rewarding ever for the program as far as national attention. Every sports media in the USA focused on N.C. State for a week in January.

Unfortunately, all of that focus came because of the death of Kay Yow, a woman who fought cancer for everyone to watch and to give hope that they could beat cancer.

You know this ends five years of a rough road for the Lady Wolfpack after Yow was diagnosed with a recurrence of her breast cancer in 2004.

Right now, I would not want to be Lee Fowler, the Athletic Director at State. He has to make a decision on who will replace Kay Yow.

This will be the third hire for Fowler of the four major sports in Raleigh.

Basketball still has a major question mark whether he has made the right choice in Sidney Lowe. I think all Wolfpackers are very satisfied with Tom O'Brian in football.

Fowler has announced there will be a national search for Yow's replacement. There is an old saying about not wanting to be the the one to replace a legend.

Stephanie Glance has been Kay Yow's top assistant for 15 years. The last five, with Yow in and out of hospitals, she has stood tall keeping the program going.

All of us who pull for the Wolfpack nation have to be honest with ourselves. In the triangle these days Wolfpack basketball is third fiddle to Duke and Carolina - that's men and women's.

For all she has done for the program, Stephanie deserves to be given the job. But, as the top assistant the last 15 years, name a Wolfpack women's player that when you heard the name as a State, was a national-type player?

In women's basketball, you get a 6'5" player who can dominate the middle. State's players have been project players who normally have only played when they developed up through their senior seasons.

I think Stephanie deserves the job, but I don't know if she can win the way I want the program to win.
Decisions... I'm glad I am well down the totem pole where they tell me the decisions and I live with it.