According to Football Scoop we hired Houston’s AD Hunter Yuracheck

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Houston athletics director Hunter Yurachek will accept the same position at Arkansas, a source told FootballScoop on Monday. Yurachek has been Houston’s AD since April of 2015. He oversaw Houston’s football coaching search last season, which saw the Coogs promote offensive coordinator Major Applewhite to head coach. Yurachek himself was promoted from within, moving from Houston’s COO role after Mack Rhoades took the AD job at Missouri. Prior to his 2014 arrival in Houston, Yurachek was the AD at Coastal Carolina for four years. He will replace Jeff Long, who was fired late last month. It is not immediately clear what role Yurachek will play in the ongoing search to find Bret Bielema’s successor. The Hogs have run concurrent searches for their athletics director and head football coach, which have been assigned to separate search firms.

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Their basketball team just beat our arse so this has to be good right?

Hogville logic.

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So Bill Obrien?

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Hunter Yurachek was named Vice President of Athletics at the University of Houston on April 28, 2015. Yurachek joined the University of Houston Athletics Department as the Associate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Athletics in February of 2014.

In his role at Houston, Yurachek oversees an NCAA Division I intercollegiate sports program comprising of 17 varsity sports programs, 425 student-athletes, 175 employees and a $45 million operational budget.

In Yurachek’s first two years in the role, Houston’s sport programs eclipsed 225 points in the Learfield Directors’ Cup in back-to-back years for the first time in department history, securing top-three finishes in The American Athletic Conference both years. The Cougars improved to second in 2016-17 after finishing third in 2015-16.

The feat was bolstered in 2016-17 by 11 of 17 programs qualifying for NCAA postseason competition. Houston’s programs combined for a league-leading five American Conference team championships and 22 American Conference individual titles.

The success was not limited to the field of play, however, as UH student-athletes opened the fall semester with a record 96 student-athletes on the Dean’s List. That record was short lived as 109 student-athletes earned Dean’s List honors in the spring semester. Houston student-athletes combined for the highest spring GPA (2.95), highest cumulative GPA following a spring semester (2.93) and the highest average hours passed in a spring semester (14.1) in department history.

Twelve of 17 sport programs recorded a GPA of 3.0 or higher, while 75 student-athletes completed their graduation requirements. Three programs, Men’s Cross Country, Women’s Cross Country and Women’s Golf each earned the NCAA’s Public Recognition Award ranking among the top 10 percent in the nation in academic progress rate scores.

The 2016-17 year also saw the continuation of an aggressive facilities plan as construction began on the $60 million renovation of the Fertitta Center, the football indoor practice facility and a baseball player development center and clubhouse with more than $85 million of projects all privately funded.

In his first year in the role, Houston recorded its highest finish in the Learfield Directors' Cup since 1999-2000 and its second-highest finish in school history with 296.5 points to finish 73rd nationally.

The 2015-16 academic year saw the Houston Football program capture The American Athletic Conference Championship and a Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl win over Florida State, the Houston Men's Track & Field program win The American Indoor and Outdoor Championships and the Houston Women's Golf program claim an American Championship in only its second year with a full team. In addition, the Men's Basketball program returned to the NCAA postseason for the 29th time in program history and the Men's Golf program advanced to the NCAA Championships for the third straight year.

All of the athletic achievements occurred while UH student-athletes recorded the second-best fall GPA, 2.91, and second-best spring GPA, 2.87, in athletic department history while placing a record 88 student-athletes on the University's Dean's Honor List in the spring.

Yurachek led the Houston Athletics fundraising charge with a record amount $5.2 million in private donations to the Athletics general scholarship fund in the 2014-15 fiscal year.

Yurachek was instrumental in the national search and hiring of football and men and women’s basketball head coaches (Tom Herman, Kelvin Sampson, Ronald Hughey) while overseeing the development and implementation of a $500,000 remodeling project to the men and women’s basketball locker rooms.

Yurachek came to Houston after serving four years as Director of Athletics at Coastal Carolina University where he oversaw a department featuring 18 men's and women's NCAA Division I sport programs. A testament of his vision, Yurachek was named the 2014 Under Armour FCS Athletic Director of the Year in May of 2014.

Under Yurachek's leadership, the Chanticleers won a total of 29 Big South Championships (both regular season and tournament championships), made 30 NCAA appearances and finished a program-best 79th in the 2012-13 Learfield Director's Cup.

Coastal Carolina student-athletes posted a 3.028 grade point average (GPA) for the fall 2013 semester and saw its overall GPA rise from 3.053 to 3.108. Of the 434 student-athletes, 253 - or 58.3 percent - posted a GPA between 4.0 and 3.0, including 28 who earned President's List (4.0 GPA for the semester) and an additional 117 who earned Dean's List recognition. Further breakdown shows that 125 of the 175 women student-athletes (71.4 percent) posted a GPA between 4.0 and 3.0, while 128 of the 259 men (49.4 percent) accomplished the feat.

In addition, since Yurachek's hiring in January 2010, Coastal Carolina student-athletes earned:

• 363 All-Big South honors
• 31 All-Big South Player of the Year honors along with 13 Big South Freshman of the Year honors
• 28 All-America honors
• 11 Big South Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors in their respective sports
• 5 Academic All-America honors
• 4 national postgraduate scholarships
• 3 Big South Conference Christenberry Awards for Academic Excellence

Also during Yurachek's tenure, several major projects that supported intercollegiate athletics totaling more than $250 million were included in the University's in ongoing capital improvements across the campus.

Prior to his appointment at Coastal Carolina University, Yurachek was executive senior associate athletics director at the University of Akron. Yurachek has also held various athletics administration leadership positions at the University of Virginia, Western Carolina University, Vanderbilt University and Wake Forest University.

He earned his bachelor's degree in business management at Guilford College in 1990, where he was a four-year letter winner in basketball. He earned his master's degree in sports administration from the University of Richmond in 1994.

A native of Richmond, Va., Yurachek and his wife Jennifer have three sons; Ryan, a tight end for the Marshall Football program, Jake and Brooks.

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