Why the Gus Malzahn hate?

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Seems like he has been successful wherever he's coached at.

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Answered your own question.

He's done less with more at Auburn. What makes you think he would do better here where the recruiting is a lot tougher?

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I moved to Arkansas about 3 years ago. Can someone fill me in on the hatred for Gus Malzahn? Seems like he has been successful wherever he's coached at. Thanks.

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He has his supporters. As this thread will show.

That's the problem though.

Let me take you back to the days of yesteryear. Houston Nutt is the head football coach at Arkansas and while he has had some success the fans are beginning to get restless. Which is a problem because Nutt has close ties to major boosters in the Little Rock area.

Enter the golden year of Springdale High School football under Gus. It was arguably the second best high school team in Arkansas history and can stake a legit claim to being the best high school team in the country that year. This is before Springdale opened up a second high school and I believe SHS was the largest high school in the state at that time.

And they were loooooaded with talent that year. They were solid on both sides of the ball and had good special teams. Not only that, Gus was one of the first people in the country to be running the hurry up power spread offense. To the teams he played, not just here in Arkansas but California and Louisiana as well, it was like seeing the wishbone for the first time in the 60's.

Nutt had to sign those Springdale players... and that meant hiring Gus as OC and giving up his beloved play calling duties on offense. They hated each other. At the end of the season Gus left for another job and the Nutt era at Arkansas imploded not long after.

Nutt supporters blamed Gus. Gus supporters, members of very powerful Springdale based super church, blamed everyone associated with Arkansas. It got ugly.

It was extremely bitter after Gus got hired at Auburn, with members of the so called "Springdale Mafia" (the super church that Gus was a member of) ardently supporting Auburn over the University of Arkansas... which is only ten minutes down the road from said church. Which for the record, is in no way, shape, or form, a hideous eyesore when you drive past it.

The flames have died down but after going through a walk through hell covered in gasoline having two huge booster groups in an all out war the fan base as a whole, with the exception of ardent Gus Bus backers, has shied away from sticking our genitals into that particular meat grinder again.

Plus, and this is meant in the nicest way possible, Gus and his wife are really kind of creepy.

That's it right there.

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Even without the Arkansas crap, he's just a frickin retard.

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The bottom line is that while he has his share of supporters Gus is about as popular around the state as Hillary Clinton. With the exception that Democrats will hold their nose and vote for Hillary.

What I said in the original thread -

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I originally thought people disliked Gus because of their weird hatred of anything from NWA. However, when you delve more into the Springdale 5 and Mustain/Nutt debacle you realize that there is much more to that hatred.

Gus is Houston Nutt with a better offense. He is a slimy human being. He used high school players to get a job at Arkansas. The worst part is that Gus plays the whole innocent "aww shucks" country boy role. At least with Petrino you had an upfront a-hole.

There are a shite ton of better coaches than Gus out there for us to get when Bielema is gone.

I just hope that Bielema leaves without drama. It'd be nice to not have a golden handcuff or motorcycle moment. I also think we need to go get a young up and come

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The Good Reverend has a short memory. On another board at another time i recall vividly his extreme dislike for Gus Malzahn. On the other hand, he was high on CBB's abilities to recruit and competing spirit. All the while of my expert warnings defending CBB as one fielding Petrino's less than superb athletes. Of course I knew better and I knew better concerning the Good coaching abilities of Gus Malzahn. Gus has proven he belongs in the SEC while AR Hogs have not. Ark has the stench of a hog pen in the elite SEC having a place in the lower quartile of existence virtually every year of 25. Ark should move to anothe conference or gain a PROVEN winner football coach where they are out there and some currently unemployed. Gus is a good man whom I would be pleased to save a fledging Ark football program. ALL in my opinion. (which BTW is right there with the experts)

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gotnaren

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Oh look

It's HawgAlude

arse hurt much?

I was calling him notabertfan, but I'm pretty sure hawgalude was notabertfan

I have no alters.