UPDATE 5:18 p.m.: Vice President of Athletics Hunter Yurachek is leaving UH to take over as athletic director at the University of Arkansas, a UH spokesperson confirmed Monday.
“Hunter has helped us build on our nationally competitive athletics program on the field, in the classroom and by adding to our first class facilities and I wish him well,” Chancellor and President Renu Khator said in a statement. She said she will start looking for Yurachek’s replacement immediately.
Fox 26 and other outlets broke the news earlier Monday through unnamed sources within the Athletics Department.
Arkansas recently fired its athletic director, Jeff Long, and head football coach, Bret Bielema.