re: Question for you guys in the know

Can you provide some evidence that led you to that assumption?

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He hasn't hired a coach in a major sport outside of NFL or power 5 school.

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Hell, Long got Deifel (softball) and Neighbors (women's basketball) and Watson (volleyball) all from P5 schools.

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My thinking is who in a P5 conference that is doing well enough to be considered, would want to jump into this fire? 

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I think that most people will jump at the right money. I mean, we say these things every time we are getting ready to make a hire, but we still land good coaches. Hell if someone wanted to pay me enough money, I'd move to Antarctica to work.

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My thinking is who in a P5 conference that is doing well enough to be considered, would want to jump into this fire?

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We wouldnt want a coach that thinks he can't win at ANY school, as any coach worth his salt has an ego and confidence that leads him to believe he can and will win regardless.

Some of yall act as if we're South Northwestern College of the Arts - East Campus. This is the big time SEC and only a couple, if any, of those jobs open up every year.

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My thinking is who in a P5 conference that is doing well enough to be considered, would want to jump into this fire?
Playing Bama, LSU, Auburn every year as conference games...
Always being short on recruiting base.

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Bama is tough but LSU and Auburn are winnable games every year. Plus I don't remember Shula, DuBose or Franchione doing anything special at Bama.

My point is nearly every team in this conference is 1 HC away from being great. No reason we can't find a great one as well.

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Our situation isn't that bad.

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I think a lot of people tend to be defeatist when it comes to this stuff. They look at the fact that Arkansas is losing games and just assume people think the entire program sucks, but it just isn't true. Arkansas has top flight facilities, cash to spend, and plays in the premier conference in the country. The job would be extremely attractive to a lot of coaches. Even other "middle of the pack P5 schools." If you factor in things like booming local economy and low crime rates it becomes a wonderful place to raise a family (I wish I had the ability to invest heavily in real estate around here, for instance).

Let's consider someone like Matt Campbell. He is coaching at Iowa State. A middle of the road P5 school in a middle tier conference. I don't know what he makes there, but if I had to guess I would say somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5 million. Well Arkansas could easily double his pay. Arkansas can offer better facilities, and better opportunity to develop pro caliber athletes.

Would a guy like that consider the risk that comes with an Arkansas gig? Absolutely, if you ask me. He has already shown an ability to take down programs much larger than his own, and in the SEC he would have a chance to prove his abilities against the very best teams in the country, year in and year out.

He is one of my favorite candidates and I KNOW he would at least consider the position very seriously if not jump at the opportunity.

Hell, I only make around 80,000 a year. If someone wanted to offer me even 300,000 a year I would move to frickin Syria to work. It's hard to even imagine what I would do with 4.5 million or even 5 million a year.

At the end of the day though, these people expressing their defeatism and "poor lil ole Arkysaw" syndrome should be pleasantly surprised by the caliber coach we are able to get. I don't know who it will end up being, but I'm confident they'll be great at their job.

As far as the debate over offense or defense and "we can't get defensive recruits", this too is false. If Arkansas elects to go with a defensive guru, Arkansas will land good defensive talent. Players will travel to play for the best. Look at what Muschamp has done at Carolina. That defense is tough. Scored 21 damn points on our offense. Lol. At another place that traditionally struggles to field great defenses.

You either need someone who is an Ace recruiter, or someone who is widely considered to be one of the absolute best coaches in the business. At that point whatever system they wanna run is fine by me.

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I laugh when I see talk about how the next coach is going have a complete rebuild on his hands, because it's run of the mill fan myopia

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I do think that the next coach probably has a bumpy first season, not because we are completely devoid of talent, but because the players are going to have to unlearn a lot of bad habits they've slid into over the last few years.

It might take a year just to get the team in shape after the Body by Herb program.

That having been said the schedule is not, by SEC standards, especially unforgiving. Schools in other conference would think of it as a march through hell while covered in gasoline, but for us its a fairly light season thankfully. A good coach can easily have this team bowl eligible and if he catches some breaks hit 8 wins in the season.

I told him it would be a huge mistake, especially with the expansion happening and pushing for ticket sales.

Stubhub as 6 buck tix to the remaining SEC games. Good grief.

14 for lower level tix...

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I told him it would be a huge mistake, especially with the expansion happening and pushing for ticket sales.

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It would definitely cause ticket sales to suffer next season and I know they know that. But in their thinking, one year of mediocre ticket sales is better than being saddled to the wrong coach for 3+ seasons all over again and I do agree from that standpoint.

I guess insiders are starting to go public with the things we've been hearing up to this point and a lot of them are publicly saying that they don't think he'll be back, so that gives me some hope that we're not being fed a bunch of BS.

Theres also word that some of the assistants are putting out feelers for new landing spots now. It's starting to unravel and not just behind closed doors anymore.

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ArHog

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Tardville BS

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Yep