Portal thread. Who’s leaving, who’s coming.

[Show-Me Hog]

sane people making well reasoned hires

Surely you spot the flaw in your logic.

[animal]

Surely you spot the flaw in your logic.

I think you mean not the people who decided to let a female golfer and some other non-football people help lead the search for what led to a clown parachuting into his introduction presser.

[The Whyte Boar]

Surely you spot the flaw in your logic.

Well, since you it that way.

[The Whyte Boar]

Gonna be a rough year for Hunter and Sam.  Check out the replies. lol

https://x.com/HunterYurachek/status/1865425728734441714

[Barton Fink]

I think you mean not the people who decided to let a female golfer and some other non-football people help lead the search for what led to a clown parachuting into his introduction presser.

Or sending the AD a love letter.

Yeah, we are guaranteed to hire a winner...

[Doc Hogaday]

Is this real life?

https://twitter.com/robhogue5/status/1865502296152441122

[animal]

Is this real life?

https://twitter.com/robhogue5/status/1865502296152441122

Surely this is a troll job.

[BASS]

No thanks

[vegashog]

No thanks

ya think?

[animal]

Only if he's willing to play TE.

[HogOfWar]

Only if he's willing to play TE.

Surely Greene could see how wide open he would be.

[Son of Spam]

Finish what? Destroying the program further?

[DrMongoose]

they won 2 games and 0-8 in conference. finished 12th in the sec in total offense. chad morris level.

that line of reasoning is bullshit.

If you beat on state and took the points this year you made money, maybe that is what they did?

[Olhickoryhog]

Oh, I don't know. Maybe 30+ years of history?

All you've done is complain and dodged questions I've asked. So let's try this again...

What are YOUR expectations for the program and what is YOUR solution to get there?

I will disagree we are a 6 win program for 30+ years.  Sure, we were better W/L the last 30 years in the SWC than the first 30 years in the SEC.  Let's look at Conference records since we entered the SEC and exclude our 2 years with an Interim coach (1992: 3-4-1 and 2012: 2-6).  Prior to the bike wreck, we had 7 winning conference seasons (1 year with 7 wins, 4 more with 6 wins, 3 SEC Western Division Championships of the world, and 1 more west division co-championship), we had 8 losing seasons, and 4 .500 seasons (would have been 7-7-5 if Marc Curles was never born).  Even including our 2 interim seasons, we never won fewer than 2 conference games.  No one is going to confuse those results with the 20 year run LSU had with Saban, Les, and O, but that is definitely better than a "6 win program."  Since the bike wreck, we have had 1 winning season (5-3 in 2015 where we lost at home to Toledo and Texas Tech to destroy any momentum.), 1 .500 season, and 10 losing seasons.  We also have had 5 seasons where we won fewer than 2 conference games.  Of our 6 coaches in the SEC, I'd argue 2 were better than Sam, 2 were equal to Sam (although Ford's highs were better than Sam's and his lows were better as well), and 1 far worse than Sam.  Our SEC history would indicate if we fired Sam, worse case scenario, we'd hire someone comparable and best case scenario we'd improve dramatically.

As far as NIL, I've never been able to find any actual numbers but let's assume for the sake of argument that Arkansas is far behind the other SEC schools.  I can only think of 3 reasons for it

1.  We are a small, poor state that can't afford to play the NIL game and that won't change even if we hire the ghost of Vince Lombardi.

2.  Donors (especially the BMD) are upset Yuri has dramatically increased the prices and donation levels over the past few years for premium football tickets, baseball tickets, and (starting next year) basketball tickets.  They have a set amount of money they are willing to spend and all their additional monies are going to the Razorback Foundation because of increased prices.

3.  They believe giving Sam money is the equivalent of setting it on fire.

Bringing back Yuri and Sam will not solve any of these problems.

[Lurk]

Is this real life?

https://twitter.com/robhogue5/status/1865502296152441122

Eat your way to 3 bills?

[Barton Fink]

Since we've joined the SEC we avg 6 wins a year and thst includes bowl games.

Your point #1 is precisely what I'm saying. We are a poor state. Unless large corporations get involved our the fanbase somehow goes all in on donations, it doesn't really matter who you hire. Nothing has shown that it will happen. Only hearsay.

[Barton Fink]

Eat your way to 3 bills?

The next Jason Peters.

[The Whyte Boar]

Since we've joined the SEC we avg 6 wins a year and thst includes bowl games.

Your point #1 is precisely what I'm saying. We are a poor state. Unless large corporations get involved our the fanbase somehow goes all in on donations, it doesn't really matter who you hire. Nothing has shown that it will happen. Only hearsay.

Why are you so intent upon proving this contention?  You realize don't you that if you are successful in persuading everyone it will not lead to people being satisfied with Pittman? It will instead lead to complete apathy and we'll spend the next 30 years being a three win program like Vanderbilt was.

[DirkPiggler]

Is this real life?

https://twitter.com/robhogue5/status/1865502296152441122

Definitely trolling.   

[DrMongoose]

If you beat on state and took the points this year you made money, maybe that is what they did?

If you beat on state and took the points this year you made money, maybe that is what they did?

I meant bet on state