Debbie Yow: “Tell ‘em I’m coming…and HELL’S COMING WITH ME!”
Debbie Yow hasn’t been on the job long, but she’s already making her presence felt as NC State’s athletics director.
“We are doing a reorganization,” Yow said in a phone interview Monday afternoon.
Yow, who took the helm of the Wolfpack athletic department in July, already has promoted department veteran David Horning to executive senior associate AD, making him the clear No. 2 administrator in the department. She also is looking to hire at least one, and possibly two, new senior associate ADs.
I think we all saw this coming once Yow was announced as AD. She’s re-molding the Athletics Department to her liking and that means there will likely be some veteran staffers–perhaps long-time staffers–that will be asked to move on.
This is what we wanted, though. To do away with the “status quo” and create a fresh, new Athletics Department. We’ll learn in the coming weeks who was hired and learn who’s no longer there.
If you were crying out for change (like most of us were), realize that means folks you know or know of may no longer have jobs. Do not bemoan it.
I’m not rooting for anyone to lose their jobs, especially now when work is hard to come by. But the department badly needed a shakeup, and when that happens, good folks get let go. We have to accept that as part of the process.
