re: Bruce and Baz speak... On Pittman!

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Its well over 20 mil for buyouts once you account for the whole staff. Dan alone was 2 mil. Hunts and Tysons are about the only big wigs who care about Arkansas sports anymore. The Walmart money ended when Bud died. Waltons only care about Art and Trannies now.

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I like HY but if he really doesn’t have the pull to get a glorified interim head coach bought out then we need to adjust the to-do list and put “get real AD” at the very top. I doubt that’s the case.

Our athletic department deals with these issues on about the same level as our football team plays. Stupid, unprepared, afraid, indecisive. Like you said fail in pretty much every metric.

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9 wins in year 2 from where we were when he got here was a minor miracle.

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I give most of the credit to the upperclassmen and their leadership on that team, plus there were Arkansas kids on that team who were sick and tired of losing and and they played their guts out and played over their heads at times. Plus we got breaks we don’t normally get.

That’s difficult, if not impossible, to replicate yearly.

The expectations after that season were set higher than they should have been. It was a fun season though.

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Absolutely. That's why I said he wasn't worth the expectations that team earned. He reaped the rewards of factors he had nothing to do with then turned it into a payday. All downhill after that.

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It seems that’s what’s happening at mizzou this year, the players have taken over the leadership role and are making the difference, it’s still the same coaching.

Heck, 10rc did it last year. Most teams are up and down.

But I will give Kiffin credit, he’s showing to be much better than I thought he’d be capable of.

Miss State 247 site reporter saying he's hearing rumblings of Odom behind the scenes..saying it either him, Pittman or Gus.

Don't know why, but I get a weird feeling Odom will be the guy and Sam will 'retire' (yet still get paid much of his buyout as a program ambassador or something).

It makes too much sense from Hunter's perspective. Former P5 HC who clearly was the behind the scenes HC under Sam and now he has a good year at UNLV.

Transition would also be pretty seamless and he obviously would not mind Sam still being around the program. It would also lighten the load on Hunter bringing an entirely new outsider like a Chadwell type who may or may not succeed at the P5/SEC level.

Personally, I'd make Curt Cignetti make tell me no 3x or more before if hire Odom, but I think Hunter is going to value program familiarity a lot.

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Odom has already failed in the sec as a hc

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But did he? in one way yes... Mizzou 4, 7, 8, 5 wins...

UNLV... 8-2 Currently...

His defense at Arkansas was crap. So, no he isn't a Petrino, but he may be a Nutt with his experience.

Man, I'm not for Odom... But we are absolute dog poo right now. Just looking for something, almost anything better at the moment. I have become bipolar about this, which sucks.

I thought Sam was gonna stay for sure after Florida, I thought he would be fired after the Aub game, then sure at the end of the season.. .Now, I am not sure he won't be here regardless.

I usually here definitive stuff from folks when we are gonna make a change. Massive rumors fly, everything goes crazy and it is even a little fun just hoping for betterment. But this feels like something totally different. Like we are stuck and either Sam makes magic happen... or we are screwed even worse.

Either HY is a genius and has this thing sewed up. Or What? Crazy times indeed!

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Hunter will be sent packing along with Pittman at seasons end, similar to Jeff and bret.

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That worked so well last time

I don’t see them firing Pittman (if they do) just to hire Odom.

Getting blown out by Auburn just keeps looking worse and worse.