FAYETTEVILLE — University of Arkansas Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek is more than just hopeful football will be played this fall. He thinks the country will need football and sports as part of a healing process to deal with the effect of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’ll tell you what I think,” Yurachek said in a phone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Thursday. “I think that will happen. I think we will get a full football season in. I think that will start on time.
“I think it’s something that our community and our country desperately needs, for professional and college athletics to start back up again.