Did firing Odom get us here

Yes.

Odom is doing well at UNLV.

If the program wanted to support Pittman they could have made available the money to get better OC and DC than Enos and Twill.

I like his defense up to last night, but if they were serious about giving Pitt what he needs to succeed, you could get a guy like Chizik who knows the SEC and has experience being a HC.

Or you could get similar on the OC side.

But Arkansas takes in all the money they can while paying out as little as they can.

It's not about winning or having a winning program, it's about having a highly profitable program.

This has nothing to do with his experience as a HC to help Sam confide in someone about HC stuff.

Twill has no experience, Enos left being a HC to be bert's OC which tells you all you need to know about his decision making ability.

Odom was more valuable off the field than on for Pitt.

Other schools will pay non field coaches for this experience and mentoring. Mizzou hired Jones from Greenwood to help drink in learning to be a HC and run a program.

Arkansas will gladly ask you to help raise a 100k, but won't spend the 100k for support staff in this regard. Or hell 20k to an intern to run Pitts twitter account.

It isn't like olden times where one man can do it all.

I wasn't saying Odom was a bad coach, just that he was checked out last year and it was time for both sides to move on.

Pittman being a poor head coach got us here. Everything else that happened is a result of that on some level. Keeping Odom would have only delayed this result.

He got us in a much better spot but it's all wasted if we don't move on right now. Time to let Gus use us again then go hire and "Arkansas guy" who will run us back into the gutter.

If Sam is so incompetent he essentially has his DC coaching ho's entire team and making all the decisions, then there is absolutely no reasom why s Pittman should have ever been a head coach.

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It isn't Sam is a piss poor HC or that he is not, it is the University and Yuracheck to don't provide the support needed to be successful.

They are quick to ask for your money but slow to keep up with what the rest of the league is going within their programs. NIL being the latest change to fight.

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What exactly are HY or UA to do about NIL that they aren't doing?

I do think it’s a big factor.

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Embrace it instead of fighting it.

You must not have checked your email.

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So tired of reading this complete falsehood being bandied about. HY is not "fighting against NIL" like you keep spouting, and I've already corrected you once but here goes the full story for anyone willing to read:

Hunter Yurachek is one of about a dozen SEC athletic directors and head coaches - including Nick Saban and SEC Commissioner himself Greg Sankey - that have formed a group going to Washington to talk to lawmakers about regulating NIL in college athletics. Up to this point it has been entirely unregulated since it's inception a couple years ago (think Texas aTm signing HS players to ludicrous contracts before they've ever even played a down).

The groups entire point is that A) high school players that have never played a down of college football should not make more money than veterans on the team - and B) it should not be more lucrative for certain players to stay in college over trying to reach the next level. In particular, B is happening all over the country and it's not good for the individual football programs, NCAA football, or the NFL.

We have a perfect example on our roster right this moment - KJ Jefferson. I have no doubt that if Pittman were to still be here next year, KJ would too with his final year out of 6 YEARS of eligibility. He might still hang around even if Pittman is gone, simply because he's making more money here than he would at the next level. These SEC members are arguing that this is not how it should work.

The dozen SEC members talking to Congress want to regulate NIL and put caps on the amount an individual player can make per season, whereas no caps exist now.

Let's use KJ for an example. Right now it's been said he makes about $1 million per year in NIL deals, BY FAR more than anyone else on our roster and a huge chunk percentage-wise of our total NIL available money. He's already signed these deals and presumably they'd be available to him next year if/when he comes back as well.

Well, let's say NIL is finally regulated and the maximum amount any individual player can make is $250,000 per season. First of all, this gives a much bigger incentive to try your hardest to make it to the next level. Second, whereas ONE KJ Jefferson was making $1 mil per year, we can now sign 4 different top players to max deals - 4 top players we want to retain from entering the portal or entice to come here. Is ONE KJ Jefferson worth 4 top players when we have a capable younger player right behind him?

It's bad for the program and bad for the sport. It's bad for the younger players that deserve their opportunity to make NIL deals as well. You could have one KJ here for his 3rd year of taking up a large chunk of the NIL money, or you could have 4 top players with max NIL deals in his place. He isn't worth that, and it hurts players like Criswell and Singleton as well.

We, as Arkansas fans, should WANT NIL regulated as much or more than anyone. How many times has it been said amongst us and all over the SEC boards that "NIL is ruining college football"?

Now you have about a dozen SEC bigwigs stepping up to fix it, including our very own AD Yurachek, and all you hear is this stupid shite from Arkansas fans "Hunter is fighting against NIL hurrrdurrrr! He doesn't have what it takes to be a big-time football AD hurrr!"

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HY is taking the stance because money is going to the players that he sees as should be given to the athletic department to mismanaged instead.

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Exactly.