Coaching Hot Seat and Searches

[Doc Hogaday]

Cultural fit is such a bullshit thing to say in major college athletics. Muss and his fucking surfboard are not a "cultural fit" in NWA. Winning is what makes you a cultural fit.

I'm not some old fat ass slob that goes around to the local Razorback club fish fry to be glad-handed and get a picture taken w/ my "cultural fit" of a coach.

I would, however, start going to these events and let hypothetical coach dog cuss me in front of my kids and Meemaw if it meant we were about to win some motherfucking games.

The business is winning. Hire mean. At the least it's easier to fire when they don't perform.

/rant

[Feral]

There is no excuse for the shittiness of this coaching staff.  Pittman has a very generous budget to get excellent coaches. He doesn't. 

No excuse for Sam telling Briles to get lost only to make the laziest, uninspired, retread-est OC hire ever in Enos. 

[jdcatty]

If Petrino was a "cultural fit" here why haven't we tried in my lifetime to hire another football coach like him?  Going back to Hatfield which coach fit that same mold that he did? Who else obsessed over details so much that they waited a year knowing they already had a TD play ready for LSU?

Petrino is the exception, not the rule, among coaches, with respect to his attention to detail.

[Hogfan58]

- We play a 'home' game every year 200 miles from campus in a stadium that holds 25k fewer fans than our home stadium cuz nostalgia reasons.

Remember when Ole Miss played games in Jackson and Bama played in Birmingham ? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[buff2.0]

Remember when Ole Miss played games in Jackson and Bama played in Birmingham ? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

"It's been 84 years..."

[DrMongoose]

Pittman was Yurachek's hire, he will go to the may for him, good or bad.

Let's be honest, our program is all about the social aspect of having a fun Sunday and selling stuff, wins are secondary.

Coaching is what wins here because that is how we overcome other (SEC) program's  money, nil, recruiting base, etc. - Petrino proved that. That is the type coach we need not a cheerleader - an obsessed coaching savant. Sadly, not many of them out here.

G.J. Kinne - young, hungry.

Next coach gets incentive heavy deal - like hunter claims (?) he likes cause every time we give a coach a new deal for winning 8 games they get rich and content and start half-assing it. No more generational wealth extensions for 1 ok year - make the earn the money. Hunter needs to not get played by the agents again and earn his $1 million pls salary.

[vegashog]

pittman is the 12th highest paid coach in the sec. the salaries are what they are. it's set by the market, and you will not hire anyone worth a shit without paying him. and since the vast majority of that salary is paid by the boosters, i'm not sure why it should matter to a lot of folks.

the bitching about agents puzzle me. if i can afford the best attorney, then that's who i hire. same with a doctor, or anyone who's talent i might need. why should it be any different with an agent?

[BASS]

pittman is the 12th highest paid coach in the sec. the salaries are what they are. it's set by the market, and you will not hire anyone worth a shit without paying him. and since the vast majority of that salary is paid by the boosters, i'm not sure why it should matter to a lot of folks.

the bitching about agents puzzle me. if i can afford the best attorney, then that's who i hire. same with a doctor, or anyone who's talent i might need. why should it be any different with an agent?

Exactly, everyone one of us would do the same thing.

Best agent, richest contract we could get, etc.

[animal]

Exactly, everyone one of us would do the same thing.

Best agent, richest contract we could get, etc.

Not me...I'd take my free money I'd be stealing for half of what Pitt makes.

[HogOfWar]

pittman is the 12th highest paid coach in the sec. the salaries are what they are. it's set by the market, and you will not hire anyone worth a shit without paying him. and since the vast majority of that salary is paid by the boosters, i'm not sure why it should matter to a lot of folks.

the bitching about agents puzzle me. if i can afford the best attorney, then that's who i hire. same with a doctor, or anyone who's talent i might need. why should it be any different with an agent?

I said a few years ago, after we got rid of Bert, that the Athletic Department needs an agent to go toe to toe with agents like Sexton to keep contracts on a level playing field. We get screwed on these contracts every time.

[jdcatty]

I said a few years ago, after we got rid of Bert, that the Athletic Department needs an agent to go toe to toe with agents like Sexton to keep contracts on a level playing field. We get screwed on these contracts every time.

If you could get every Athletic Department in the SEC to do the same, that might work.  However, Arkansas (or any other school) standing alone has no chance.

[Feral]

I said a few years ago, after we got rid of Bert, that the Athletic Department needs an agent to go toe to toe with agents like Sexton to keep contracts on a level playing field. We get screwed on these contracts every time.

Yurachek played himself twice.

Once when he refused to play ball with Sexton re: Kiffin and wouldn't pay Leach what he wanted, and then again when he gave Pittman a huge raise and extension after one good season (same as what Long did for Bert) when he wasn't even in demand and had openly stated he wasn't going anywhere.

[vegashog]

I said a few years ago, after we got rid of Bert, that the Athletic Department needs an agent to go toe to toe with agents like Sexton to keep contracts on a level playing field. We get screwed on these contracts every time.

your coach is the 12th highest paid out of 14. how much more level can it get?

If you could get every Athletic Department in the SEC to do the same, that might work.  However, Arkansas (or any other school) standing alone has no chance.

exactly.

since kiffin's name gets tossed around here all the time, he lost 5 of his last 6 games (including the bowl) last year and got a raise to $9 million per. it's not just an arkansas "problem", if that's how you want to see it.

[HogOfWar]

Yurachek played himself twice.

Once when he refused to play ball with Sexton re: Kiffin and wouldn't pay Leach what he wanted, and then again when he gave Pittman a huge raise and extension after one good season (same as what Long did for Bert) when he wasn't even in demand and had openly stated he wasn't going anywhere.

Yep.

An agent would have told Hunter to STFU and let them handle this  AD, foundation, boosters, are stupid and need help. At least in Arkansas.

[vegashog]

do you really think the university and razorback foundation doesn't have people who negotiate and sign off on these contracts? that's it's all on yurachek?

[animal]

I'm going to hazard that these deals have in house council present representing the UA and making sure our AD doesn't get into trouble. That doesn't mean it's working or that our in-house council is "good enough".


Now that I've had a bit more time to cool off I don't want to see us replacing a coach after four years. So Pittman will probably get a pass this season unless the wheels really come off and it forces HY's hand. You'll know the wheels are coming off if some older guys go into knee management mode and so forth...


We might just fuck around and win just enough to get to another shitty bowl and be doing it with what may be the UA's all time leading passer. Could there be anything more UA than that?

[hit_that_line]

They remember in November, Chuck.

[HogOfWar]

do you really think the university and razorback foundation doesn't have people who negotiate and sign off on these contracts? that's it's all on yurachek?

No, not intelligent ones.

[Feral]

We might just fuck around and win just enough to get to another shitty bowl and be doing it with what may be the UA's all time leading passer. Could there be anything more UA than that?

We went 5-6 in Matt Jones's senior year.

We went 4-8 in Tyler Wilson's senior year.

We went 4-8 in Austin Allen's senior year.

It would be the most Arkansas thing to finish KJ's senior season with a losing record.

[red death]

We went 5-6 in Matt Jones's senior year.

We went 4-8 in Tyler Wilson's senior year.

We went 4-8 in Austin Allen's senior year.

It would be the most Arkansas thing to finish KJ's senior season with a losing record.

We went 3-8 Groveys last season.