It's Simple for Me

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Other coaches have done more with the same criteria.

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might I ask which coaches took over a situation similar to what Bielema took over and did better?

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This is a business,

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Exactly why you should get on the wagon...Everybody knows the dollars involved. Not the case in 90-92. Support him or become one of those that have nothing to do but bash him on a message board.

It's that simple

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Not the same situation whatsoever.

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Crowe was a similar situation.

Hatfield had some success and rested on his laurels, recruiting was very mediocre, but it "didn't matter" because of the flex-bone (something the fan base was tired of watching), he also refused to make much needed changes to his staff any change was always another "old pal" coming in to replace the leaving "old pal".

Crowe was hired as a desperation move by Broyles to save an semblance of a recruiting class when Hatfield left for the Clemson job, he likely knew he was soon to be fired with the roster on campus anyway.

Basically Hatfield's time here is very similar to Petrino's.

The important thing is not what Crowe did as a result, it is how attractive of a job it was after this series of events, it wasn't. Broyles ended up hiring the man Hatfield replaced after a scandal cost him his job. A few years later we were again repeating the cycle, the job was attracting good talent, but the program was in situation where the money was able to influence the hire and it did.

This led to a decade of "well it can be worse, remember that". Sure there were highs during that time, but there were also equal lows to before, but hey there are a lot of good bowl games out there.

What the programs need is stability, meaning keeping Long as AD and letting coaches have a fair shake at improving the programs to the point where a dismissal is seen as a hire just not working out, not he wasn't given a "fair" amount of time or he was doing enough to earn more time but delusion took over.

Like it or not Arkansas isn't a program that can justify replacing a coach after 3-4 years outside of a total failure of a coach on and off the field/court.

Very few program in each sport are given this benefit of the doubt when canning a coach after a brief stint, normally, off the field problems also need to be present for the replacing to be portrayed in a positive light.

Other wise you are going to see the program stuck in a huge rut of mediocre highs and lowest of lows such as Tennessee has found themselves in (and will continue to be in if Botch is fired this season) and Texas will soon find themselves in. Michigan is TBD if they are still there, but I'm not aware of any Alumni the caliber of HC as Harbaugh who would be ready and willing to come save the program.

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if Botch is fired this season

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Dude's going to win 9 games this year and be fine; Oh, and his banging recruiting classes are not going to hurt his prospect for future success either.

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Oh, and his banging recruiting classes are not going to hurt his prospect for future success either.

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Fulmer and Dooley had "banging recruiting classes" their final years there as well...

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I give you James freakin' Franklin 2011: 6-7 2012: 9-4

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Playing in the East is weak

not when it comes to coaches and QBs

At least not with this fanbase

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Every coach that has taken over recruited in the top 25 that initial fall. Therefore, in year three, regardless of the prior staffs leftovers, Coach B is trending as the second worst coach in Arkansas history, worst in the SEC. His career hasn't been defined yet.

I'm just stating facts. You can either ignore them or convolute them.

He can either pull a Pinkel or stay as the worst SEC coach we've ever had. We all will see this year which way we go.

Three year win record:
Ford 18
Nutt 23
Petrino 23

Coach B needs 7 wins to tie Danny Ford or he will be the worst SEC coach we've ever had in three years.

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I would be interested in seeing how the west stacked up then vs how the west stacks up now..

Too busy to Google and find out.

I know for a fact the Saban wasn't the coach at Bama when Nutt was coaching.

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Support him or become one of those that have nothing to do but bash him on a message board.

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Since you put it that way...I'll bash. When I'm not supporting.