re: Coaching Search Thread

One of the biggest coaching hire troll jobs of all time if we end up hiring a nobody.

Everyone else was on the Gus bus or left at the bus stop more accurately.

Yes Arkansas will have a HC named in a few weeks.

The main issue in the search falls back on the main issue in the program, leadership and direction. HY hasn't stated what is being looked for in a HC.

You have the workaholic guys who nerd out on plays, schemes, opponents, etc. Are we looking for a HC with these qualities? A guy who can out coach the other side and coach up players to compete on the SEC?

You have the media guys who do the media spots and focus on the local interactions and fund raising. Usually seen as a players coach and a CEO of the team.

You have the in-between who are mixed bag of the two above.

What is the goal outside of winning games? What is the strategy? Is to maximize NIL and revenue sharing to buy our way to the top or is it to take a few years building off diamonds found in the rough for a run every half decade or so?

The names thrown around said to excite the money guys to promise large amounts of NIL funding are not the names that excite the small donation crowd and are ho-hum hired to them.

The names that excite this crowd are seen as having no backing from the large donors.

This is a big divide that will lead to right where we are in a few years. We need a coach who is Kiffin for OM, gets backing from everyone. I'm not seeing it as of now.

I'm ready for the local media to start selling a few names so we have an idea of what to expect with the hire. Basically of all the names floating around are going need to be sold, but this is true for all of the coaching searches, LSU and/or Florida are heading for a huge disappoint. There isnt a coach out there that equates to instant excitement and disbelief he's coming here and hasn't been since Petrino in 08, so Hunter needs to start showing the fanbase he's more interested in getting Arkansas to the playoffs instead of being the head of the committee.

Depends on who you ask, but you’ll hear from several people that they’ve got their main target locked up. Who that is? Idk and don’t look into the interview thing, HY likes to get feedback from lots of people without intentions of hiring them. He was never going to hire prime but he was the first AD to ever interview him

I guess. HY will claim whomever he hires emerged from the candidates and became the main target.

He even tried to spin this happened with Pittman because he emerged as the candidate who wanted to be here and had the full supply of former players.

Interviewing people is fine, using this for feedback is fine, the issue is the names that are leaked as the early candidates project that he has a different much lower view of where the programs are or should be compared to the majority of the fanbase.

He also has the issue of his hires given the sense of the easy low hanging fruit hire. See that track program, people have bitched about buckham and his performance for years and instead maybe taking the program another direction he promoted a guy from his staff. That is easy, but also said he's been fine with how the program has finished in Nationals on a yearly basis.

Until he proves otherwise he's fine with a liberty bowl ceiling for the football program and the only reason he fired Sam was due to potential losses in ticket renewals and donations not because of on field results. The contract he gave Sam pretty much proved that, stay above .500 overall and your safe.

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All of us know that Pittman was the bottom of the barrel and the only one that would take the job.

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Sadly I think Kiffin is the only one we made a serious run at. I think Pitt was more of a lazy hire than a desperate one.

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not this time though.

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Ohhh Sage! Please tell us who all has shown incredible interest in our beloved razorbacks? Are we not, once again, getting raises for some great coaches, and will wind up accepting an up and comer like Chadwick Morris?


Good Grief!

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Ohhh Sage! Please tell us who all has shown incredible interest in our beloved razorbacks? Are we not, once again, getting raises for some great coaches, and will wind up accepting an up and comer like Chadwick Morris?


Good Grief!

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Guess we’ll know once the hire is made

No point in eeyoreing the hire before it’s made