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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 20, 1990                   TAG: 9004200808
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RALEIGH, N.C.                                LENGTH: Medium

TURNER SAYS HE'S NCSU'S NEW AD

Connecticut athletic director Todd Turner confirmed that he will be named to the same position at North Carolina State, bringing the Raleigh native back to his roots, a newspaper reports today.

"It's always gratifying to come home," Turner told The Charlotte Observer Thursday evening after he and his family arrived at Raleigh-Durham International Airport following a flight from Hartford, Conn. He said he told Connecticut officials of his intentions to resign Thursday morning.

"I'm looking forward to becoming part of the North Carolina State tradition. Of course, there's a lot ahead of us."

Turner, a former ticket manager and assistant AD at Virginia, has been the athletic director at Connecticut since 1987.

N.C. State has scheduled a 10 a.m. news conference today to announce Turner's appointment.

Turner will take the AD job from interim athletic director Harold Hopfenberg on July 1. Hopfenberg was named to the position last fall after Jim Valvano's dismissal as athletic director. Valvano was relieved of his coaching duties on April 7.

Turner and a yet-to-be-named basketball coach will be called upon to help lead N.C. State out of one of the darkest and most controversial periods in the history of the school. For the past 15 months, the Wolfpack basketball program has been the subject of scrutiny stemming from the book "Personal Fouls."

The Wolfpack program was placed on two years probation by the NCAA and a University of North Carolina system probe uncovered academic rules abuses.

In February, former Wolfpack player Charles Shackleford admitted to accepting over $60,000 from two men while at N.C. State and an ABC News report alleged that point-shaving had occurred in the 1987-88 season. The State Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating the point-shaving allegations. 


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