The NEXT Coach

[One Quarter]

Our boy goes IN on everything and is effectively in "burn it down" mode.

The next hire must find that happy medium: ambitious and visionary, but willing to delegate and not overly arrogant. Smart, but more focused on hard work and discipline than strategic brilliance.

Someone like... well, Houston Nutt...

Anyone who thinks Houston Nutt ever had any of these qualities can be safely ignored.

[vegashog]

He was such a Pittman Homer/apologist.

How can a coach who was just the OC two weeks ago hand off play calling duties? Tell me that.

He is not better than the rest of the Arkansas Media. Safe to call everything out now, but before the Memphis loss, he was loving him some Pittman.

what?

his articles have been posted on here a bunch of times and i can't remember anyone on here calling him a pittman apologist. and he didn't say that petrino needed to give up play calling, obviously that wasn't going to happen, just pointed out that all of the teams currently in the top 10 have someone other than the hc calling the plays.

i'm going to bet you don't want to watch biddy's walk and talk.

[HogOfWar]

what?

his articles have been posted on here a bunch of times and i can't remember anyone on here calling him a pittman apologist. and he didn't say that petrino needed to give up play calling, obviously that wasn't going to happen, just pointed out that all of the teams currently in the top 10 have someone other than the hc calling the plays.

i'm going to bet you don't want to watch biddy's walk and talk.

I get his post game write ups every Sunday. He has definitely defended Pittman for a while.

If we retain Petrino next year, I agree, he should give up play calling to a competent OC, but that statement was stupid.

I agree with the rest of his analysis, we have been saying that for a long time. Nothing new.

[vegashog]

nm

[Show-Me Hog]

https://www.fayvillains.com/2025/10/26/the-day-after-now-the-coaching-search-can-really-begin/

Our boy goes IN on everything and is effectively in "burn it down" mode.

That was it. Time to wipe the slate clean. New HC, new DC, new OC, new defense, new QB, new everything.

No more hope of improvement and a trajectory into next year.

Oh noes we suck. Again.

[Feral]

He was such a Pittman Homer/apologist.

Eh, he's been pretty out on Pittman since 2023.

Even last year after the Tennessee win he was pretty overt about how Pittman — while in all likelihood having saved his job — still needed to be fired after the Ole Miss bloodbath and blowing yet another lead against Mizzou.

[HogOfWar]

Eh, he's been pretty out on Pittman since 2023.

Even last year after the Tennessee win he was pretty overt about how Pittman — while in all likelihood having saved his job — still needed to be fired after the Ole Miss bloodbath and blowing yet another lead against Mizzou.

If the post games are still there, I will check them, but to me he always seem to beat around the bush with Pittman. He would slyly criticize Pittman but not come out and say it.

He would say he liked Pittman as a person I guess,but who the fuck cares. I don't want to like a coach as a person. I want to like them because they know what the fuck they are doing and they hate to lose.

Just burn it down and start from scratch. It won't make a difference next year anyway.

[The Whyte Boar]

Man HY fucked this up so bad.  Kept Pittman at least two years longer than he should have and fires him in a year when half the damned country is firing coaches. 

For fuck's sake, LSU is about to fire Brian Kelly.  I mean does anyone have faith we can hire a decent coach in this environment?  Just hire Petrino and get it over with.  I agree it ain't real exciting, but it is the best we are realistically going to do.

[Rocket City Hawg]

Another opening to compete with.  Kelly out at LSU

[The Whyte Boar]

https://x.com/bleacherreport/status/1982601689606783342?s=46

[Barton Fink]

Somebody is gonna have to hire a shitty coach. There aren't many good options out there.

[Feral]

Petrino has to be the guy now regardless of how the season ends.

This is NOT a year you want to be coach shopping.

[buff2.0]

Somebody is gonna have to hire a shitty coach. There aren't many good options out there.

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[Thin Red Swine]

I thought it before the carousel ramped up to 78 rpm, now it's even more clear.

We need stability and the point about a high floor is the most important to me.

This current crop of up-and-comer guys seems to a feature a lot of rollercoasters, so we should give Petrino a few years then hopefully be in a better position to time the cycle.

Another plus to that is it would be more likely Heresyourcheck won't be here to make that later decision.

[buff2.0]

Petrino has to be the guy now regardless of how the season ends.

This is NOT a year you want to be coach shopping.

The answer has been right there the whole time, but I'm still watching to see how we fuck it up

[Feral]

Man HY fucked this up so bad.  Kept Pittman at least two years longer than he should have and fires him in a year when half the damned country is firing coaches. 

We should have fired him after the Mizzou loss last year.

Yurachek was such a pussy for buying into the "Pittman saved his job" narrative after the Tennessee game.

ONE game cannot justify keeping an underperforming coach.

As with quite literally everything our football program does, we're a day late and a dollar short. Never proactive, always reactive.

[Son of Spam]

Keeping BLS (Blue Light Sam) two years too long put us in this shit storm. Hire Bobby now and end the BS. Give him a couple of years and see how things go.

[Borenutz]

The amount of money being paid to coaches that aren't working is asinine. If I were an NFL coordinator, I might be trying to latch onto one of those type deals. How are these Jimbo, Kelly, Franklin type buyouts sustainable?

[Show-Me Hog]

Somebody is gonna have to hire a shitty coach.

We're just the guys to do it.

https://youtu.be/_h4DZeBleLs?si=RUHWFG5bXqM1Z7Wz

[Feral]

The amount of money being paid to coaches that aren't working is asinine. If I were an NFL coordinator, I might be trying to latch onto one of those type deals. How are these Jimbo, Kelly, Franklin type buyouts sustainable?

I've said this before, but the entire college football coaching model is broken.

When you have guys like Billy Napier getting $8M+ a year coming out of Louisiana-Lafayette, you know something's wrong.

Guys are getting paid multi-generational money to go away. Who's paying for this? What billionaires are going to keep funding this shitshow?