Grandpa Petrino Doesn't Give a Frick what you think....

[DirkPiggler]

Irrelevant. Loser mentality.

Yeah, history has no relevance.  Better to take the 1/100 shot than the 1 in 5.  Especially when the expected payout is the same.

I'll add this:  if we do go the route of an assistant, hiring someone from Georgia, Ohio State, etc. makes the odds of success even worse.  Whether we go with assistant or experienced HC we need to find someone with experience at a program where winning doesn't come easily.  The worst possible move would be to go get someone like Schumann whose experience is all from places where you can recruit a top five class without ever getting on an airplane for a visit.

[HTL]

Yeah, history has no relevance.  Better to take the 1/100 shot than the 1 in 5.  Especially when the expected payout is the same.

1 in 5 for what? Arkansas statistically has very little chance to lift the crystal. A retread coach certainly won't. Swinney had never even been a coordinator.

[DirkPiggler]

1 in 5 for what? Arkansas statistically has very little chance to lift the crystal. A retread coach certainly won't. Swinney had never even been a coordinator.

One in five that your head coach turns out successful.  Versus one in a hundred if you go get the hot name coordinator from a football factory. 

Clemson has advantages that we don't.  Much easier to win there.  Even so, Dabo was about to be gone if he hadn't been saved by hiring Chad Morris while he was still an early adopter of the spread.  Do you think Arkansas fans will be willing to sit through three years of underachieving while the next coach figures it out or happens into a good coordinator hire?

[BleedinRed]

Arkansas statistically has very little chance to lift the crystal.

Irrelevant. Loser mentality.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Show-Me Hog]

1 in 5 for what? Arkansas statistically has very little chance to lift the crystal. A retread coach certainly won't. Swinney had never even been a coordinator.

Neither had Sam. So didn't we just try that exact thing?

There's that saying about insanity.

[buff2.0]

Yeah, history has no relevance.  Better to take the 1/100 shot than the 1 in 5.  Especially when the expected payout is the same.

I'll add this:  if we do go the route of an assistant, hiring someone from Georgia, Ohio State, etc. makes the odds of success even worse.  Whether we go with assistant or experienced HC we need to find someone with experience at a program where winning doesn't come easily.  The worst possible move would be to go get someone like Schumann whose experience is all from places where you can recruit a top five class without ever getting on an airplane for a visit.

But what if we go the route of hiring an assistant who has ALSO been a head coach?  There's lots of lions and tigers and whatever else, but there's only one Mike Bobo.

[DRYANKNPULL]

Neither had Sam. So didn't we just try that exact thing?

There's that saying about insanity.

We just didn't dig deep enough. We should find the best s&c coach and give him the head job.

[Spiderham]

We just didn't dig deep enough. We should find the best s&c coach and give him the head job.

"The freaks come out at night" part deux

[DrMongoose]

Irrelevant. Loser mentality.

Then explain why the Sam Pittman experiment failed.

[HTL]

Then explain why the Sam Pittman experiment failed.

What? Because he wasn't at all qualified for a head coaching job. No one wanted it but him though.

[DrMongoose]

What? Because he wasn't at all qualified for a head coaching job. No one wanted it but him though.

Oh ok but you said

Head coaching experience is irrelevant.