Coaching Hot Seat and Searches

[animal]

I hate lane Kiffin but in this case I'm siding with him.  You're a football player.  Shut the fuck up.

Yeah just read some kind of transcript between the player and Kiffin. Nothing screams professionalism like dropping f-bombs when told of a mental break...all Kiffin could hear was that the player pussied out of preseason practices because it's hot and they changed his position. 

I tend to agree with Kiffin on this one...the kid should have reported to the head coach when he was repeatedly asked to report and didn't.

[buff2.0]

Sounds like somewhat of a pussy. Maybe he does have serious mental health problems but it seems like every college student now thinks they do.

[Feral]

Can we start talking about Pittman in this thread?

[animal]

Can we start talking about Pittman in this thread?

He'll keep his job if he manages to get to another bowl game.

We lost to a "good" Liberty team last year.

A line with baby shit soft dough boys...not one guy on that line scares the fuck out of anyone. I would say they are young guys but only two of them are young. The other 3 are older guys that shouldn't be getting heir shit pushed by Mountain West boys.

[bigpig]

Win vs the late season cupcake

Win vs Miss St at home


Maaaaaybe beat Auburn


That's five. I can't find a sixth.

[Guardrail]

Can we start talking about Pittman in this thread?

Pittman and Enos. They're stealing money at this point.

[Feral]

Win vs the late season cupcake

Win vs Miss St at home


Maaaaaybe beat Auburn


That's five. I can't find a sixth.

I'm having trouble finding 6 as well. I predicted 7-5 before the season, but didn't foresee our line being this bad and our offense being this putrid with Enos.

I don't see us taking 1 of this upcoming 4 game stretch. LSU and Ole Miss are too good, and we always lose to A&M and Bama. Go O-fer in that stretch and you can only lose 1 more down the stretch.

We get State, Auburn and Mizzou at home. I don't know what to make of any of those teams except Mizzou has an A&M-like jinx on us.

TL;DR — I'm not seeing a pathway to a bowl this season. If Pittman can't make a bowl in year 4 with KJ, then what are we even doing?

[bigpig]

Mike Elko won 9 with Duke last year, and is 3-0 with them this year.

He's a former big name DC and is proving he can run a program.

Give him 5 million a year and go hire a young, dynamic OC who understands how to move the ball down the field and also who doesn't have tangential connections to a rape scandal.

[Feral]

Elko is a great coach. We should move on him before he winds up back in College Station.

[Feral]

What is Pittman's buyout?

We're what, only 2 years into his extension?

Nothing like making a budget hire for HC and then hamstringing yourself with a buyout after 1 good year to where you might have to hire his replacement on a budget.

Great job, Hunter.

[HogOfWar]

What is Pittman's buyout?

We're what, only 2 years into his extension?

Nothing like making a budget hire for HC and then hamstringing yourself with a buyout after 1 good year to where you might have to hire his replacement on a budget.

Great job, Hunter.

We are Arkansas

[bigpig]

What is Pittman's buyout?

We're what, only 2 years into his extension?

Nothing like making a budget hire for HC and then hamstringing yourself with a buyout after 1 good year to where you might have to hire his replacement on a budget.

Great job, Hunter.

We had to lock him in before he got stolen from us. He was in big demand by...uh...his boat?

[Texzilla]

The only path by left is we need a firing with cause on Pittman and the staff.  Like a Craig James style bunch of dead hookers, operating a Chinese fentanyl factory on lake hamilton, Duggar level of child porn type of scandal to run him oft. 

Enid has to go to.  Like tonight.

[Feral]

We had to lock him in before he got stolen from us. He was in big demand by...uh...his boat?

I still can't wrap my head around how/why we gave a huge lock-in extension to a coach with 1 good year who'd openly said this was his dream job and that he was never leaving (and was not a hot name in coaching circles).

[wmr]

Elko is a great coach. We should move on him before he winds up back in College Station.

When was the last time Arkansas made a football hire that showed a single ounce of foresight or give-a-fuck?

[bigpig]

When was the last time Arkansas made a football hire that showed a single ounce of foresight or give-a-fuck?

Holtz.

Even Petrino was a "fall into our lap" hire, so no foresight there.

[DrMongoose]

I still can't wrap my head around how/why we gave a huge lock-in extension to a coach with 1 good year who'd openly said this was his dream job and that he was never leaving (and was not a hot name in coaching circles).

Wait til he beats Teasip in a meaningless bowl game and we give him a huge guaranteed 7 year deal.

[Feral]

When was the last time Arkansas made a football hire that showed a single ounce of foresight or give-a-fuck?

Hatfield over Johnson was ultimately a bad choice, though an understandable one at the time.

Crowe, Ford, and Nutt were lazy desperation hires.

Petrino fell into our lap thanks to Jerry Jones and happened quickly.

Bielema was a lazy hire by Long because of his love letter about #integrity.

Morris was a desperation hire after we got pantsed by Gus.

Pittman was a Hail Mary panic hire after Yurachek got cheap with Kiffin because he thinks it's 1982 and handshake deals mean jack shit.

[vegashog]

you keep saying yurachek got cheap. the school was on the hook for bert's buyout, then chad's. neither of which yurachek was responsible for. over $24 million. kiffin and leach both wanted big buyouts from the school but next to nothing on their end because they were being told that the arkansas job was, if not a career killer, one that would set it back for who knows how long.

where was this money going to come from after the boosters who were supposed to promise to pay it, were already on the hook for those two ridiculous contracts?

[Pumpkin Escobar]

If we move on from Sam, I'm sure our big money folks will be hot and heavy for Gus instead of someone like Elko. Hiring him seems to be something they can scratch off their bucket list.