( Andy Shupe)
Hunter Yurachek, director of athletics at the University of Arkansas, speaks Friday, March 13, 2020, in the Touchdown Club at Razorback Stadium to address questions regarding the Southeastern Conference and the university's response to the coronavirus outbreak.
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas athletics director Hunter Yurachek will begin a four-year appointment to the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee in June.
Yurachek will replace Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne as the SEC’s representative on the committee. Byrne was appointed as a replacement on the committee after Jeff Long was fired as Arkansas' athletics director in November 2017.