Lee Fowler, the third candidate considered for athletic director at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, makes a statement to the press Wednesday inside the university center.Read moreThree questions with AD candidate
Last but not least, there’s Lee Fowler.
The third finalist for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletic director job made his visit to campus Wednesday. Now the decision is up to chancellor-elect Steve Angle, with input from interim chancellor Grady Bogue. An announcement from UTC naming the Mocs’ new athletic director is expected to come by early next week.
For Fowler, a 61-year-old Columbia, Tenn., native, coming to UTC isn’t about one last job before retirement, he said. Fowler was the athletic director at Middle Tennessee State from 1994-2000 and then spent a decade at North Carolina State.
Getting back to Tennessee is just one of Fowler’s goals. After serving as the director of basketball operations for the Sun Belt Conference the past few years, following his split with the Wolfpack in 2010, the former Vanderbilt basketball player said he missed the college atmosphere.