He will likely be missed on the College of Arkansas.
Jon Fagg was the UA’s deputy athletics director, one among Vice Chancellor and Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek’s most trusted troopers.
He was a part of the three-person staff, together with Yurachek and Steve Cox, who’s sports activities chairman for the Board of Trustees, who discovered and employed Sam Pittman.
Fagg additionally helped discover and rent Eric Musselman.
Fagg obtained to know Pittman throughout his stint as offensive line coach at Arkansas and appreciated what he noticed.
Fagg joined the UA workers in 2008, bringing with him 16 years of athletic division expertise.
When Jeff Lengthy was fired, many assumed Fagg would be named interim AD, however then-Chancellor Joseph Steinmetz went with Julie Cromer, who together with Steinmetz employed Chad Morris to be Arkansas’ soccer coach.
Shortly after that rent, Yurachek was named as full-time athletic director.
Whereas nothing has ever been mentioned, if Yurachek had been employed sooner, or Fagg had been the interim AD, the Razorbacks and their followers in all probability wouldn’t have suffered by two horrendous soccer seasons.
Fagg was valued for his perception, intelligence and heavy dose of frequent sense, however he by no means sought the highlight, preferring to work arduous behind the scenes.
He was in all places, however you needed to search for him to search out him.
No job was too massive or too small for Fagg.
He by no means complained, not even when he was missed as the plain option to be the interim athletic director, and he was trusted by all who knew him.
Fagg’s work ethic, endurance and the power to respect privateness paid off, and starting Aug. 1, he would be the athletic director on the College of Texas at Arlington.
UT-Arlington simply left the Solar Belt Convention for the Western Athletic Convention, so there will likely be no scarcity of challenges for Fagg.
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Neither rain, nor twister warnings, nor gloom of night time have stopped the Busch Softball Traditional. This weekend, lodges are as soon as once more full in Central Arkansas because the longest working match nonetheless run by its founders celebrates its forty third 12 months.
Regardless of taking a slight hit from the USSSA, there are 151 groups from 9 states collaborating, together with a number of the prime groups within the nation. There are seven divisions for women and men in all classifications.
The prize package deal has elevated for groups this 12 months, as much as $2,000 in some divisions. There are various different prizes together with berths to the USSSA world championships.
The Busch was a constitution member of the World Collection Convention USSSA tour. Don DeDonatis, former chief government officer of the USSSA, labored arduous to place that match collectively and recruited Clint and Marla Albright arduous as a males’s and ladies’s convention occasion.
It was an excellent marriage, however earlier this 12 months DeDonatis, who had given his phrase that the Busch could be a lifetime participant within the World Collection, retired, and virtually instantly 5 occasions had been canceled. The Busch was one among them, with the excuse of a small airport.
A 20-year labor of affection was gone.
Nonetheless, Clint and Marla dug in and can nonetheless have one of many greatest and finest softball tournaments within the nation. It has been for 43 years and is on the Fourth of July weekend.
Of their persevering with effort to make a distinction of their group, one other function would be the “House Runs for the Hungry” occasion. This can be a dwelling run derby with all of the proceeds going to the Arkansas Meals Financial institution. It’s Friday night time from 5:30-7:30 on the Sherwood Sports activities Complicated.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Overshadowed by Arkansas’ 52-point offensive performance was the difficulties the Razorbacks had stopping Tennessee guard Chaz Lanier, who scored 29 points on 10-for-20 shooting, including five threes in a 24-point loss against the No. 1 Volunteers.
Now, the Hogs must deal with a quartet of guards against No. 23 Ole Miss. All four can score in the “randomness” of coach Chris Beard’s system. The Rebels’ top four scorers, Sean Pedulla, Jaylen Murray, Matthew Murrell and Dre Davis are all listed as guards and average double figures.
“These guys run motion,” assistant coach Chin Coleman said. “It’s all random and it’s all different and so, while they’re moving and cutting and screening, you’re going to have to guard every kind of screen there is in the game of basketball. That motion is unpredictable. The freedom of movement, cutting, screening. It’s hard to scheme against. It’s hard to scout.”
Arkansas also must contend with an Ole Miss team that wins the turnover battle on both ends of the floor. The Rebels commit the ninth-fewest turnovers in the country (9.3) and are third-best in turnover margin (+7.0).
“We want to stay on the attack and make plays for one another and not have a lot of live-ball turnovers,” Coleman said. “Those are the ones that we can’t defend against. We want to make teams play against our set defense, which is one of the best in the country. If we can do that and not have live ball turnovers, we’ll be fine.”
Tennessee forced the Razorbacks to commit 15 turnovers, picked up 10 steals and turned it into 13 points. Ole Miss ranks fourth in the SEC at 10.2 steals a game.
Tipoff between Ole Miss and Arkansas is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday and will be broadcast on ESPN2.
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The first availability report for Arkansas basketball’s (11-3, 0-1 SEC) matchup against the No. 23 Ole Miss Rebels (12-2, 1-0 SEC) was released by the Southeastern Conference on Tuesday.
Introduced over the offseason, availability reports will be filed one day before contests, with an additional update on game day.
According to the SEC, student-athletes will be designated as “available”, “probable”, “doubtful” or “out” for their next game. For additional clarity on game day, student-athletes will be designated as “available”, “game time decision” or “out.”
Below is the first availability report of the week ahead of Arkansas’ game against Ole Miss, which will tip off at 6 p.m. CT at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville:
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