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 Friday.

"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."

Earlier, Yow said in an e-mail to the Baltimore Sun that she "decided to visit on campus with the search committee at N.C. State. I am going to do that."

Yow did not address how far the process had gone, or if she had been offered — or had accepted — the post.

Asked by The Sun if she could confirm she was being offered the job, she replied in an e-mail: "Wish I could...but I can't."

N.C. State said last month that Lee Fowler would soon depart after 10 years. A 13-member search committee was named to find his successor. Yow, who became Maryland athletic director in 1994, is from North Carolina. Her sister, Kay, who died in 2009, coached the Wolfpack women's basketball team for 34 years.

Officials who attended tonight's Terrapin Club meeting described Yow as particularly emotional during her talk to the club, which which provides scholarships for athletes. One official at the meeting said the tone of Yow's comments had participants wondering if she were leaving — or at least considering such a move.