The NEXT Coach

[vegashog]

goes a ways back to when high school coaches figured out they could put the best players on offense, best athlete at qb, and win more games. hard to convince a kid nowadays to play defense.

[piglosopher]

On my point, it's easier to find a good OC nowadays. Arkansas will never have a consistently elite defense , but a consistently average one paired with the right guy at OC might be enough to get us playing at a high level.

Sure, coaches are stubborn. It could turn out like muschamp but also like Napier just as well.

[FNG]

Football never really changes and it always boils down to the big uglies.

Turnovers, blown assignments and special team heroics will play their parts but a team that can consistently stay ahead of the chains running the ball will win more times than not just as a team that can consistently stop the run will do the same.

[TheOtherWhiteMeat]

Stephens is one of the largest privately owned investment banks in the United States but, other than Kevin Scanlon, I never seem to hear much about them vis a vis relationship with/support of Razorback athletics.

Bad blood, or am I just unaware of their support?

Warren Stephens was big on keeping games at WMS. Now he's enjoying tea and strumpets and has no fucks left to give.

[Barton Fink]

Football never really changes and it always boils down to the big uglies.

Turnovers, blown assignments and special team heroics will play their parts but a team that can consistently stay ahead of the chains running the ball will win more times than not just as a team that can consistently stop the run will do the same.

Yeah, you don't have to have an elite defense but you better have a damn good line. On both sides of the ball. Makes everyone around them better.

[TheOtherWhiteMeat]

I hate to admit it but we have drifted along like nobody is in charge since JFB left.

This is spot on. In building the program, he cared about the fans and giving them a team they wanted to see. Fans were invested in the team in a huge way. I remember growing up when there were 3 TV stations if you walked down our street on a Saturday during a game all you could hear were radios broadcasting the game. Today's fans are a different breed. It's more of a social thing. Dress up and go to the game, who really cares if we win or lose. Fans have shown they'll give up their money no matter what. So the PTB do whatever they want. Do you think if we won a big away game fans would mob the airport to greet the team when their plane landed?

[jdcatty]

Jessie Minter (Michigan DC) I think has some loose ties to the state...think he was born in LR but didn't live in the state much past early childhood.

So that makes him highly qualified

I think he grew up in Texarkana.  May have been the Texas side, but that doesn't make much difference down here.

[Son of Spam]

Golesh is 0-2 against Memphis. He should fit right in.

[buff2.0]

Golesh is 0-2 against Memphis. He should fit right in.

Hiring coaches that routinely get beaten by Memphis is just what we do

[Barton Fink]

Just looked up and posted in the other thread that we are 2-4 against Memphis since '92. That is unfathomable. With only ONE game played in Fayetteville.

[Natty_Ice]

Just looked up and posted in the other thread that we are 2-4 against Memphis since '92. That is unfathomable. With only ONE game played in Fayetteville.

So not even that extra little advantage was enough to help us out?

[Barton Fink]

We need more heppin'.

[buff2.0]

We need more heppin'.

A Vice Chancellor of Athletic Directoring that loves the helmet?

[Thin Red Swine]

The point is moot now but I don't buy the "Bobby is washed up" narrative. No unbiased observer could truthfully argue that he has been given a fair chance to audition for the HC position. A broken team with a 2-3 record and a bottom tier defense was dropped in his lap with the meat of the conference schedule looming and he was essentially told "fix this unfixable mess and we might give you a shot". It is a miracle he has been able to get the team to remain bought-in so far, let alone the fact that he has had the Hogs within 3 points of a win/tie against 4 (including 2 top-20 teams) of the 6 conference games played so far.

Questions regarding the continued tolerance of TG's Jekyll/Hyde performances, the inability of his offense to score when necessary to win, the third quarter offensive no-shows and the lopsided turnover margins are all valid; however, it is also valid to consider that Petrino has had seven weeks and six games to run this team and his offense free of interference from Sam and/or other staff.

Considering the giant cow patty of a conference-wide coaching arms race we now seem determined to step in, it seems to me the more prudent course of action would have been to give BP another Spring, Summer and Fall to instill the culture and attention to detail his teams are known for and see if the "old" BMFP is still in there and, if so, will that style of coaching be successful in today's environment.

So you're talking about giving him a one-year contract?

He might actually go for that but it's an odd message to send.

[buff2.0]

I think he's saying that should have been the course back in September.  "Hey, Bobby, we want you to finish out this season and coach next season at least.  Here's a 3-year contract offer."

Us being us, we didn't do that and then we wasted our head start in the coaching search.  The sky is falling until it isn't.

[HTL]

Florida has zeroed in on Sumrall.

[Son of Spam]

Florida, LSU, and any other team that is looked on as a better program than ours, will have their coach before we will. We will end up with the leftovers, as usual.

[SwahiliSteve]

We should have fired Pittman last year and spared us this season but like always we have to approach our coach's with kid gloves and because they are nice let them stick around a little longer and that is what's killing us. Why HY thought keeping Sam around another year was a good idea I have no idea. How the fuck going into this season did they think our DC staff was capable of us being ranked. Remember how Pittman said we should have been ranked at the beginning of the season and he would prove us all wrong? That fat fuck is mentally ill

[Barton Fink]

Florida has zeroed in on Sumrall.

You'd think they'd learned their lesson on hiring G5 coaches from Louisiana. I don't see him as a better option than Golesh. Equal.

[Ray Zorback]

A Vice Chancellor of Athletic Directoring that loves the helmet?

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