Breaking: Gragg to be Named New Arkansas AD According to Sources
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Date: 30/11/2017

Breaking: Gragg to be Named New Arkansas AD According to Sources

Reports: Arkansas to hire Tulsa’s Derrick Gragg as athletic director

Current Tulsa Director of Athletics Dr. Derrick Gragg is the new Director of Athletics at the University of Arkansas according to sources of the Pig Trail Nation.

Gragg is currently in his fifth season at Tulsa.  He worked under legendary Arkansas AD Frank Broyles from 2000-06 serving as Associate AD, Senior Associate AD and Deputy AD for the Razorbacks. 

Gragg has also worked at Vanderbilt (1993-95), Missouri (1995-97), Michigan (1997-2000) and Eastern Michigan (2006-2013).

Gragg replaces Jeff Long at Arkansas who was fired on November 15, 2017 after serving 10 years at Arkansas. 

FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) - As the University of Arkansas searched for a new director of athletics, the chatter continued to be about hiring someone who knew what it meant to be a Razorback.

Three separate sources confirmed to 5NEWS Sports Director Bobby Swofford that Dr. Derrick Gragg will be the Razorbacks' next Director of Athletics.

Gragg spent the past four-plus years at the University of Tulsa and was the senior associate athletic director at Arkansas under Frank Broyles from 2000-2006.

Gragg received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt after playing receiver for the Commodores (1988-91) then received a masters degree from Wayne State in 1999 and a doctorate degree from Arkansas in 2004.

In his first two years at Tulsa, Gragg saw the university move to the American Athletic Conference and brought in Frank Haith as the men's basketball coach and Phillip Montgomery as the Golden Hurricane's football coach. According to the Tulsa athletic department's website, the Golden Hurricane student-athletes have a graduation rate of 85 percent during Gragg's tenure.

Gragg, a Huntsville, Ala. native, has been a college administrator since 1993 when he was the director of student life at Vanderbilt and was Director of Athletics at both Eastern Michigan (2006-13) and Tulsa (2013-17) prior to being hired at Arkansas.

Years School Title

1993-95 Vanderbilt Director of Student Life

1995-97 Missouri Director of Compliance

1997-2000 Michigan Asst. Athletic Director

2000-2006 Arkansas Senior Associate Athletic Director

2006-2013 Eastern Michigan Athletics Director

2013-2017 Tulsa Athletics Director

2017-Present Arkansas Athletics Director