SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey wasn’t the only one surprised to find out the NCAA had canceled the college baseball and softball seasons on Thursday.

If you missed it during a Thursday appearance on “The Paul Finebaum Show,” Sankey issued his thoughts on the NCAA’s decision to cancel those sports this week.

“I’ve been through enough surprising statements or events in the last 36 hours that I’m a bit numb, as you might imagine,” Sankey said on Finebaum’s show. “Surprised that we’ve made a decision now in mid-March to not play baseball or softball national championship event. So I look forward to learning what informed that decision.”

Following that message from the league commissioner, Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek expressed similar sentiments during a Friday appearance on Arkansas radio show “Hit That Line” when asked about the cancelation of the college baseball and basketball seasons.

“Guys, I’m the athletic director at the University of Arkansas and I know as much about that decision as you guys know. I have absolutely no idea why that decision was made, in my opinion, in haste,” Yurachek said on the show. “Why it was communicated the way it was through a press release. I found out when my plane landed from Nashville yesterday afternoon.

“I didn’t have an opportunity to talk to anybody of our spring sport coaches. I did not have an opportunity to make that announcement to any of our spring sports student-athletes. I’m really disappointed, not necessarily in the decision, but how that decision for spring sports that occurred in May and June, how that information was disseminated from the NCAA.

“Again, I’m an AD a Power 5 institution and I would think that I would have found that information out in a timely fashion to be able to communicate with our coaches and our student-athletes, but I didn’t. And I don’t even know that Commissioner Sankey at this point in time knows exactly why that decision was made. Very disappointed in the leadership of the NCAA. I get men’s, women’s basketball, indoor track and field, swimming, gymnastics, those were the imminent championships and had to be dealt with. Not sure why the decision was made in such haste for spring sports and why it was communicated the way it was.”

Yurachek has a good point and this further illustrates once again how poorly the NCAA handles crisis situations and how poorly the organization is run. It’s one thing not to inform the numerous ADs around the country of decisions made at the NCAA’s highest level, but it’s another to not inform the commissioner of the SEC.