University of Arkansas vice chancellor and director of intercollegiate athletics Hunter Yurachek joined The Show With No Name on KABZ 103.7 The Buzz Friday morning to discuss the NCAA's handling of announcing the cancellation of championship games and tournaments for all spring sports due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. Yurachek was dramatically displeased with the timing of the decision and the lack of communication.

"I found out the way the rest of the world found out, through Twitter," Yurachek said. "I was actually in-flight on the way back from Nashville, landed to the news that the NCAA had cancelled championships. That's how I found out as athletic director at the University of Arkansas. I didn't have a chance to let our coaches know. I didn't have a chance to let our student-athletes know. That's what's really disappointing to me about how this was communicated and how the decision was arrived at, and so I'm meeting with our head coaches later today, and we'll set up some things for our student-athletes. And we've got to decide how to move forward.

"I think it made sense from a basketball standpoint. What's really disappointing to me is what we did yesterday with our spring sports and cancelling all those championships. Some of those championships are in June. Unless somebody well above me has some information I don't have, I really thought that was jumping the gun. Quite candidly, I'm very disappointed in the leadership of the NCAA and how that was not communicated to any conferences or any member institutions. That our student-athletes here on our campus heard that news the same way everybody else in society heard. That's just totally unfair to those young men and women that have worked so incredibly hard, especially our seniors, that we didn't have the opportunity as administrators and as coaches to share that news with them and to provide the appropriate counseling and things they needed in a timely fashion.

"Greg Sankey (SEC commissioner) has been unbelievable in how he has communicated and how he has rallied our conference, and we have done everything in unison. We have made decisions collectively as 14 member institutions. His leadership during this last 72 hours has been incredible, and I can't thank him enough for that. But the leadership, in my opinion, the NCAA, has been far less than that. Very, very disappointed.

"We didn't have any opportunity as the membership of the NCAA to discuss that. I understand winter sports. I understand the immediacy of making the decision on men's and women's basketball. We had track and field students out in Albuquerque. We had swimmers going to Georgia next week for national championships. I understand that and the timeliness of that. I think we could have taken a step back as a membership and re-evaluated what we do with our spring sports. The same decision may have been reached. I don't think that decision needed to be reached yesterday."

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