Arkansas AD makes bold claim about Razorbacks football program

Arkansas AD ties football team's fortunes to finances

Yurachek said his comments were because of Arkansas' financial status compared to college football's upper echelon. "It's directly related to [greater] finances and what other programs were able to invest in their teams in the past," Yurachek said.>

Yurachek also said:

"If you're driving down I-40 and the speed limit is 55, but you know there's not going to be a trooper out that day, how many of you are going 65? That's what's happening in college athletics right now. So you have to decide as an athletic director, are you going to get out in this lane that you're not supposed to be in, and operate without the highest level of integrity, or do you want to stay in these two lanes? 

Added the AD:

"Until we get [an] enforcement agency up and running, you're going to continue to have schools operating in that third lane, and that's a bad place to be in my opinion. It's a bad place for college athletics. I don't want to operate there, but I think to be competitive, we may have to figure out what that third lane looks like for the University of Arkansas.

Arkansas loss to Mississippi hurts

Arkansas hasn't won at least 10 games in a football season since 2011, when it went 11-2 under HC Bobby Petrino, and it hasn't played in a conference championship game since 2006. 

Under sixth-year head coach Sam Pittman, Arkansas has not won more than nine games in a season and finished 7-6 last season. The loss to Ole Miss on Saturday provided fans with more questions than answers about the 2025 Razorbacks. Mississippi has won six of the past eight games in the series.

Yurachek's statement about the football team not being set up to win a national title isn't false. But those comments are probably best left unsaid, especially with Arkansas fans highly frustrated by the state of the football program.