SPRINGDALE — Two days before his football team’s first game against Arkansas State, and potentially its final game at War Memorial Stadium, Arkansas athletics director Hunter Yurachek spoke extensively about both topics at the Hawgs Illustrated Sports Club.
Yurachek was in his fourth year with the Razorbacks when he contracted the A-State game in 2021. Two years earlier he had broken a long-held policy by his predecessors of not scheduling in-state opponents, first allowing the Razorbacks to play other schools within the University of Arkansas System, then expanding it to all of the state’s Division I programs.
“When I first arrived [on campus in 2019], one of the first people I had a conversation with about playing in-state schools was [baseball coach Dave] Van Horn,” Yuraheck said.