Hunter Yurachek stood in front of a group of supporters at the Little Rock Touchdown Club earlier this week and more or less compared recruiting in this era of college athletics to driving down the interstate without any police. After setting the analogy up, the Arkansas athletic director asked his audience a question.
“Let’s all raise our hands,” Yurachek said. “If you’re driving down I-40, and the speed limit is 55, but you know a state trooper is not going to be out that day, how many of us are going to go 65?”
Lots of hands went up.
At that point, Yuracheck’s point was made. And if you’re wondering how the House Settlement is going since being implemented this summer, humbly, I’m compelled to tell you it’s going about as poorly as I predicted it would go when I wrote about the issue back in June.
In that column, among other things, I explained why the implementation of the House Settlement would bring “high-level cheating” back to college athletics. Now, barely three months after typing that sentence, we have a power conference athletic director indicating that he’s internally struggling while trying to decide whether to have his school play by the rules as he understands them or, circling back to the analogy, drive 65 even though the speed limit is 55 because — again, this was certainly the suggestion — he believes too many of his school’s competitors are driving 65 (or faster) with no state troopers in sight.
Lack of talent, revenue sharing, transfer portal create unique college basketball recruiting cycle for 2026
Travis Branham
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