Does this make anyone else a bit perplexed, or even a bit angry?

I am happy for the graduation rates, scholastic achievements, but I have underlined a few things from his letter... What say you?

When it comes to just about any endeavor in life, goals are helpful in defining and measuring success. Whether it is grades in a classroom or victories on the fields and courts of athletic competition, the final score often reveals not only the immediate feedback of the challenge itself, but provides a gauge on the effectiveness of the process.
Within Razorback Athletics, our goals are defined first by our mission - to develop student-athletes to their fullest potential through intercollegiate athletics. While seemingly a simple concept, the implementation of a program that effectively provides an environment in which young men and women can succeed in all aspects of their student-athlete experience is much more complex. Balancing the rigorous demands of one of the nation’s fastest growing institutions of higher education with the everyday challenges of competing and winning in the nation’s best athletics conference is often a daunting task.
How do we judge our success? How do we gauge our progress with other programs we compete against day in and day out?
While there is not a single metric that can define the full breadth and depth of our program, we do look to our peer SEC institutions as a useful comparison related to our progress in a variety of categories. I’m pleased to report that based on a pair of recently released progress reports, the University of Arkansas stands alone atop the SEC both academically and athletically.
Just last week, the SEC announced its 2016 Fall Academic Honor Roll. The University of Arkansas led all league schools with 91 Razorbacks representing five fall sports. For the second-straight year, Arkansas posted the most football student-athletes of any SEC school on the fall honor roll. Arkansas’ league-leading 39 is second only to its 2015 total of 40, which was the most by an SEC football program since Coach Bielema arrived at Arkansas in 2013. Arkansas now owns the top two fall academic honor roll performances by any SEC football program since 2013.
In addition, women's cross country also is atop the SEC placing the most student-athletes on the fall honor roll when compared to other women's cross country programs. The Razorback women’s cross country program had 19 student-athletes on the list. Arkansas featured 18 student-athletes from soccer on the academic honor roll while eight members of the volleyball team and seven members of the men’s cross country team earned recognition.
Throughout my more than 35 years in intercollegiate athletics, I’ve heard the notion that academics and athletics success cannot co-exist on a college campus. I’ve never believed that to be true and our coaches, staff and most importantly our more than 460 Razorback student-athletes are proving that academic and athletic success are not mutually exclusive.