FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas raised some eyebrows when it tabbed Remy Cofield as its all-sports general manager in March.
The much-anticipated hire was different from most of athletic director Hunter Yurachek’s peers, many of whom brought in football or basketball-specific GMs to run their top programs.
“There may be a year where we need a little bit more for men’s basketball and a little bit less for football because he’s done a really good job negotiating contracts, so you can move that money around,” Yurachek said on May 12. “Once you say, ‘Hey football GM, here’s your money,’ they’re going to spend all of that money and I’m not going to be able to move that around.