Various Reports: Debbie Yow Is NC State's Next Athletic Director

by Akula Wolf on Jun 24, 2010 9:33 PM EDT

CSN Washington reports that Maryland AD Debbie Yow is taking the NC State job. WRAL is reporting the same thing.

Maryland athletic director Debbie Yow is expected to be named the next athletic director at N.C. State, two Maryland athletic officials said Thursday night.

Yow was expected to be at N.C. State tomorrow.

"I can tell you things are going to happen fast," said one Maryland official who declined to be named because no public announcement has yet been made. "She's expected to be offered the job. As far as I know, contracts have not been signed."

Washington Post:

In a text message Thursday night, Maryland Athletic Director Debbie Yow said she will be on N.C. State's campus Friday to meet with school officials and discuss the school's vacant athletic director position.

While Yow stopped short of acknowledging she had taken or been offered the N.C. State job, an N.C. State source said the school is preparing to host a press conference early Friday afternoon.

Kathleen Worthington, Maryland's senior associate athletic director, said in a phone interview Thursday night that Yow will interview for the N.C. State athletic director position on Friday.

"Has a contract been signed? Is it a done deal? No," said Worthington, who spoke with Yow on Thursday. "But if something is going to happen, I anticipate it's going to get done quickly."

Yow will be in Raleigh tomorrow to "discuss the school's vacant athletic director position;" meanwhile, there's word that NC State is preparing a press conference tomorrow afternoon. So this is almost certainly a done deal.

It's pretty clear that Billy Randy's not winning the press conference with this hire; folks across the internet seem to be scurrying to build a list of cons, and let's face it--nothing this school does is ever right to some people.

Much more if/when this is official.

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It would be an interesting hire

Pros: Experience running an ACC athletics dept that has won ACC and national championships in multiple sports, she should have a good idea of the challenges at and potential of NC State due to her being a longtime ACC AD as well as Kay Yow’s sister, she has overseen facilities improvement (comcast center and probably more), and she has severely cut down the debt maryland’s AD was operating under.

Cons: Judging by maryland fans it seems she can be rather abrasive, she has had fairly public run ins with gary williams and ralph friedgen (although her demanding that neither one of them can rest on their laurels could be seen as a positive), although she has significantly decreased maryland’s debt they still are in debt and she has been there ~16 years, what does this mean for bobby purcell?

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Jun 25, 2010 8:27 AM EDT reply actions

Overall

I don’t think anyone can rightly complain about this hire unless they had their hearts set on Purcell. If this comes to fruition, NC State will have gotten an AD from a BCS school that has been far more successful than NC State.

by PACKHOOLIGAN on Jun 25, 2010 8:29 AM EDT reply actions

Could they have made a hire the entire fanbase liked?

“…folks across the internet seem to be scurrying to build a list of cons, and let’s face it—nothing this school does is ever right to some people. "

I second that statement. SFN comments and various State fans I have spoken to are alarmingly negative about this hire, even though Yow’s tenure at Maryland has hardly been disastrous (it’s actually been fairly good).

Since Yow has already been cast by some as a villian to NC State Athletics, she will no doubt get a share of the blame for every loss that the football team, basketball team and all the non-revenues endure. A part of the fanbase will remain in a fever-pitch mentality, which makes discussing or watching NC State athletics a depressing & riotous affair. In that sense, nothing has changed with this hire. But my point is: I’m not sure what hire could have changed that.

by rcost on Jun 25, 2010 9:43 AM EDT reply actions

Since Yow has already been cast by some as a villian to NC State Athletics, she will no doubt get a share of the blame for every loss that the football team, basketball team and all the non-revenues endure. A part of the fanbase will remain in a fever-pitch mentality, which makes discussing or watching NC State athletics a depressing & riotous affair. In that sense, nothing has changed with this hire. But my point is: I’m not sure what hire could have changed that.

The problem with hiring someone who has a track record is…they have a track record. Purcell probably would have been met with more uniformly positive reactions because there’s nothing to dissect. But that would just be the case at the beginning…I agree with you, I don’t think there was a person that would have been universally approved of by the fan base.

Backing The Pack

by Akula Wolf on Jun 25, 2010 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions