Univ. of Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek said the coronavirus crisis has caused the school to "take a step back and really reevaluate ... our priorities and truly how we're going to spend the resources that we have." Yurachek, appearing Thursday on "The Paul Finebaum Show" to address the financial impact from the potential loss of revenue if there is no college football season this year, said the decision when and if to play college football will be "determined probably outside of any of the meetings that I'm with my colleagues" in the SEC. Yurachek: "We're dependent on our local leadership and the local health departments in each of our areas and the CDC, and the direction that they will provide to us ... about when they truly believe that it’s safe for us to gather in groups larger than 10 and reconvene the activities that we want to reconvene." He added, "We’re going to have to make some hard decisions and whether that’s personnel decisions or ... maybe this facility was on the front burner when all this happened and now that facility is not going to be on the front burner." Yurachek said Arkansas is expecting a 5-15% "loss of revenue" heading into '21, and "that’s with playing a football season." But even with that predicted shortfall in revenue, he said there is “no conversation, at least on our campus, about eliminating any sports” (“The Paul Finebaum Show,” ESPN Radio, 4/2).
