Yurachek finalist for Coastal Carolina AD

[BostonZip]

When Mack Rhoades was named the athletic director at Houston last June, one of his first tasks was to convince his right-hand man at Akron, Hunter Yurachek, to follow him.Rhoades tried "extremely hard" to persuade Yurachek, who became Akron's interim athletic director after Rhoades' departure, to trade Ohio for Texas, but he was never successful."He would have been a great fit here," Rhoades said. "I'm thrilled with the person that we hired, but because I had worked with Hunter for three years and knew his capabilities, I absolutely tried to get him here."Yurachek had legitimate reasons to stay. He was a candidate to become the full-time athletic director at Akron, a position that eventually went to Tom Wistrcill, and had already submitted an application to become the next athletic director at Coastal Carolina."It was a difficult decision not to go to Houston," said Yurachek, one of two finalists to become Coastal's next athletics czar. "Mack had taught me so much about college athletics, and he's a trusted and valued friend. But my goal is to be a director of athletics, and that wasn't necessarily getting me closer to my goal."That decision perhaps defines the 41-year-old Yurachek better than anything else: a goal-oriented leader with a strategic plan for just about everything in his life. Those that know him say he's a visionary with the charisma, fortitude and intelligence to script the future of Coastal athletics and then go about executing the plan.Read the article.

[GP1]

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