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re: Ole Miss and Indiana are in the semis
Posted on 1/2/26 at 3:55 pm to Drewbie
Posted on 1/2/26 at 3:55 pm to Drewbie
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Long wasn't perfect, but he also illustrates just how bad Yurachek is. The Arkansas job was 100x more appealing under his tenure than it currently is under Yurachek. That is objectively true. That's why his hires were an NFL coach and a coach fresh off a Rose Bowl and Yurachek's have been a career OL coach and a coach we had no competition for that couldn't make the AAC title game a single time in 6 years.
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Jeff Long did not want to hire Petrino.
Yet he did and we won. A lot. See the difference between that and the Kiffin debacle? The point is it's not just poor lil' Yurachek for not having any support. He's just a bad AD even when compared to previous bad ADs. That's part of the reason why he has a lack of support. It's literally his job to gain it and he can't do it.
This is laughable and revisionist history... anyone who has ever competed in anything and paid attention to Arkansas athletics knows that Jeff Long was and is an utter piece of shite. I couldn't care less at this point about what someone thinks of Yurachek when they're trying to deflect away from the indictment that is Jeff Long.
Ask anyone close to the hires -
Petrino was not 'hired' by Jeff Long... he was the one bright idea in recent Arkansas booster history who was almost derailed from the beginning by Jeff Long... only to be derailed later.
Ask any Wisconsin booster who was responsible for UW's multiple Rose Bowl run... and they will uniformly say Barry Alvarez. Not fatBert.
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"I've got to tell you," said athletics director and longtime Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez, who groomed Bielema to be his replacement, "and I'm not saying this negatively because Bret did a good job for us, but I haven't had one person say, 'Well, it's too bad Bret left' or 'We were sorry to see Bret leave' or 'Couldn't you have paid the assistants more money to keep him?' Not one."
Everyone in Lawrence, KS also knows he's a worthless POS -
https://www.footballscoop.com/2025/03/03/lawsuit-airs-kansas-jeff-long-dirty-laundry-in-firing-david-beaty-hiring-les-miles
Sad to see the continual focus on symptoms rather than root cause.
I really came back on here this week just to talk much-deserved smack with Alabama fans as my son is an athlete at IU now, but I had to peek into the Arkansas forum because I grew up a fan...
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Posted on 1/2/26 at 4:07 pm to Beached Tusky
quote:Sorry but bullshite. How many times did Arkansas football go 2-10 under Long? Look at the caliber of hires between the two. We went from hiring NFL coaches and head coaches of other ranked P4 programs to giving first time head coaching jobs to position coaches and scraping up undesired G5 coaches.
This is laughable and revisionist history.
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I couldn't care less at this point about what someone thinks of Yurachek when they're trying to deflect away from the indictment that is Jeff Long.
You don't like Long. We get it. No one does. You're the one that tried to assert Yurachek is some innocent victim of the BOT. It's not my fault it's ridiculously easy to point out his predecessor was more successful with the same limitations you claim are the reason Yurachek can't keep us out of the SEC gutter.
Posted on 1/2/26 at 4:11 pm to hawgfaninc
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Our admin has sucked overall, it’s not just the AD’s fault
quote:Literally the first two sentences in my first post about him.
Is he 100% of the problem? Of course not.
Posted on 1/2/26 at 4:17 pm to Drewbie
Keep thinking the AD is the problem (or the solution)... the people counting on you to keep missing the point appreciate it.
That's enough mind-numbing banter to remind myself why it's nothing but depressing coming in here - best of luck with the inevitable next AD who will no doubt be the change catalyst you're looking for.
That's enough mind-numbing banter to remind myself why it's nothing but depressing coming in here - best of luck with the inevitable next AD who will no doubt be the change catalyst you're looking for.
Posted on 1/2/26 at 4:21 pm to Beached Tusky
Keep setting up strawmen for weak points. No one said he was exclusively the problem, but it's blatantly obvious he's a net negative on the program. If you think making yourself the public frontman for railing against NIL and getting petty with the most influential agent in the entire sport makes the program more desirable for people focused on winning above all else, you do you.
Always remember you're the smartest person in every room you enter.
Always remember you're the smartest person in every room you enter.
Posted on 1/2/26 at 4:35 pm to DaleDenton
quote:Damn it, Dale.
Bad news for the baseball fans as Arkansas grip on mediocrity will slip with Hunter at the helm when DVH gives it up officially.
Posted on 1/2/26 at 5:09 pm to Drewbie
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I was replying to Dale
I was replying to Dale
Posted on 1/2/26 at 5:11 pm to hawgfaninc
Sorry didn't mean that to come off as combative. I was just agreeing with your point.
Posted on 1/2/26 at 5:17 pm to Drewbie
Gotcha
Posted on 1/2/26 at 7:31 pm to Beached Tusky
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The people making decisions in Arkansas athletics have been the root problem for decades… Nutt… firing apex Petrino… hiring Bert… all examples of pathetic ineptitude. A laughable soap opera. Yurachek could likely do great things if he had great administration and money people committed to winning.
It’s laughable to think the BOD is the source of our problems. It’s actually the governor of Arkansas and the President of the United States interfering with what the BOD wants to do. They could actually do great things if he had a great governor and POTUS committed to winning.
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