28. 48 Hours (feat. Julie Cromer)
The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly
Sport & Story
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In a span of just 48 hours in 2017, Arkansas athletics made a couple of big hires. For the first time, we give you an inside look at how it all went down with the help of then-interim AD Julie Cromer. We get into her becoming the interim AD (6:00) and how the decision to find a new football coach was made (14:05). She tells us why she thinks Arkansas is a great job (20:20). Then, we discuss what the Razorbacks were looking for in a new coach and how the 48-hour stretch that saw a new AD and coach introduced began (27:40). Finally, we talk about how Hunter Yurachek and Chad Morris met and getting negotiations done (34:00).
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| 0:16.0 | I'm landing in Houston and I've got messages from Jimmy and you know we're getting out the plane I'm about to go meet my new boss and I you know listen to this message and I'm like oh I'm sitting on the University of Arkansas. My new boss is not even 100 yards away. He thinks this is done. |
| 0:18.0 | I've got Jimmy, you know, the agent who only needs one name |
| 0:21.0 | on my voicemail saying, |
| 0:23.0 | hey, we're not done. |
| 0:24.4 | This can go one of two ways. Welcome in the Hogtte, |
| 0:35.0 | in to the Hogpide. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our friends and core brewing company. |
| 0:42.0 | Arkansas Brood Community Driven. |
| 0:45.0 | First Security Bank, only in Arkansas. |
| 0:48.0 | Sarah's in resort coming soon to Pine Bluff. |
| 0:51.0 | The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, this is winning, and Lindsay Golf, the world leader |
| 0:57.0 | in affordable championship golf. |
| 1:00.2 | In the fall of 2017 Arkansas was in turmoil |
| 1:03.5 | The football program was struggling in the midst of a four and eight season |
| 1:10.8 | the razorbacks have come east and it is not going well. And nobody was happy. |
| 1:15.9 | Jeff Long and Brett Vilema have now been thrust into such polarizing positions across the state. |
| 1:20.7 | You can see then two major decisions were made, initiating big changes for razorback athletics. |
| 1:26.8 | Jeff Long was relieved of his duties as athletics director, and the same fate found then head |
| 1:31.7 | coach Brett Bilema as soon as the football season ended. |
| 1:35.2 | So I was informed coming off the field that no longer be the coach at Arkansas, so... |
| 1:40.2 | Those decisions led to weeks of searching for replacements, culminating in a 48-hour stretch, |
| 1:46.2 | in which Arkansas would introduce not only a new athletics director, Hunter Urocheek. |
| 1:50.8 | It is an honor and a privilege to be sitting here today. But a new |
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