Why does Arkansas have such an incredible history of successful coaches?

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Football is no bigger there than any other state in the Deep South. Why have so many great coaches come from there, while Mississippi and Louisiana have produced so many great players but not so many great coaches?

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More like Texas HS ball than MS. They adopted a pass game earlier, and have very competitive large schools to do so. Up until about 10-20 years ago pretty much every team in MS was running the ball 80% of the downs. Which obviously isn't condussive to solid coaching development.

IMO the same reason you don't see a lot of good QB's out of MS, you have to go back to guys like McNair and Favre and even they weren't recruited highly because they didn't begin to develop until college. I would say AL had the same trend to an extent, but you have larger cities so there are more big time schools that were outliers.

Obviously that is changing. I would still recruit QB's OOS, but I think that probably begins to change in the next few years. But yeah, look at the players who've made it from MS in the last 25 years. You will see a trend, almost all of them are stout defenders. LB's and DT's mostly, sprinkled in with some DB's. Very few WR's/QB's. WR is a little easier because they play both ways in most cases, so the development isn't such a big deal.

Stepping Stone U

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More like Texas HS ball than MS. They adopted a pass game earlier, and have very competitive large schools to do so. Up until about 10-20 years ago pretty much every team in MS was running the ball 80% of the downs. Which obviously isn't condussive to solid coaching development.

IMO the same reason you don't see a lot of good QB's out of MS, you have to go back to guys like McNair and Favre and even they weren't recruited highly because they didn't begin to develop until college. I would say AL had the same trend to an extent, but you have larger cities so there are more big time schools that were outliers.

Obviously that is changing. I would still recruit QB's OOS, but I think that probably begins to change in the next few years. But yeah, look at the players who've made it from MS in the last 25 years. You will see a trend, almost all of them are stout defenders. LB's and DT's mostly, sprinkled in with some DB's. Very few WR's/QB's. WR is a little easier because they play both ways in most cases, so the development isn't such a big deal.

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Wow, this is a great post.

Because we're better than the rest of you

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Because we're better than the rest of you

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Let's not go overboard - you also gave us the Clintons and Wal-mart.

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Let's not go overboard - you also gave us the Clintons and Wal-mart.

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Even better than anything else, we also have this: Wilson Combat. Best Custom Firearms in the country.

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Football is no bigger there than any other state in the Deep South. Why have so many great coaches come from there, while Mississippi and Louisiana have produced so many great players but not so many great coaches?

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the better question is how the hell has West Virginia produced:
Nick Saban
Jimbo Fisher
Jim Grobe
Rich Rodriguez
Doc Holliday

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Why does Arkansas have such an incredible history of successful coaches?

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Genetics

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Let's not go overboard - you also gave us the Clintons and Wal-mart.

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What? you don't like saving money?

And Bill is alright, hell, he would be a conservative by today's standards...

Hillary? That bitch is from Illinois

They,re the unathletic kid who wanted so badly to make it on the field but genetics just wouldn't allow it. Being so passionate and wanting something so badly the next best thing was to put down the helmet and begin a career of coaching others that have the athletic talent that you never had. I kid, I Kid.... I have always wondered the same thing about Ark.