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re: So it’s not Bobby
Posted on 10/25/25 at 3:43 pm to Razorback Reverend
Posted on 10/25/25 at 3:43 pm to Razorback Reverend
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Dude, chill....
I am cool as a cucumber.
I don’t care if Bobby is hired, he has the #4 offense. I don’t like that we have a weak AD, who won’t force a great DC and GM on him. If as soon as the season was over, if Yuracheck said DJ Durkin is your DC and Bobby is head coach, and we have a GM that ran a top programs transfer talent? I’d be like we winning chips next year.. but that’s not happening.
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Posted on 10/25/25 at 3:46 pm to FayetteNAM
Hiring Bobby would be the final nail for this program. It’s lazy and uninspiring.
Interesting tidbit. A vandy win today would tie the hogs in SEC wins since the conference expanded in 2012.
Interesting tidbit. A vandy win today would tie the hogs in SEC wins since the conference expanded in 2012.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 3:48 pm to Razorbacking
Agreed. Clean house.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 3:49 pm to FayetteNAM
How did you not fricking know the answer wasn't Bobby? His record as an HC speaks for itself. Like, I don't know what to tell you people who jump through all these hoops to justify his sucking and mediocrity since we fired him.
His last year at Louisville was 2–10, and he never got above nine wins in the ACC. Then he went 5–6, 8–4, and 5–6 at an FCS team where it should have been a coup to have hired a coach like that. Now he's 0–3 again here, all close losses (though this one was nine points, just outside of one score). 17 years of being HC, and he's gotten 10/11 wins four times. The rest, 8/9 wins and then fell off a cliff his last year at Louisville.
We caught him at just the right time. The right time in his life, the right level of in-state production to offset his underwhelming recruiting. The time has passed. Move on from Bobby Petrino, people. This is like when UNC rehired Mack Brown, or when Randy Edsall went back to UConn. He was the right guy at one time. He's not anymore.
His last year at Louisville was 2–10, and he never got above nine wins in the ACC. Then he went 5–6, 8–4, and 5–6 at an FCS team where it should have been a coup to have hired a coach like that. Now he's 0–3 again here, all close losses (though this one was nine points, just outside of one score). 17 years of being HC, and he's gotten 10/11 wins four times. The rest, 8/9 wins and then fell off a cliff his last year at Louisville.
We caught him at just the right time. The right time in his life, the right level of in-state production to offset his underwhelming recruiting. The time has passed. Move on from Bobby Petrino, people. This is like when UNC rehired Mack Brown, or when Randy Edsall went back to UConn. He was the right guy at one time. He's not anymore.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 3:53 pm to Razorback Reverend
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Let me be blunt, and forgiven me in advance. We will NOT get better than BP
This is such a loser-arse mindset. Get a grip, Rev.
Let's get someone we don't know for a fact won't bring us pain. Is that not a reasonable take? You don't know who's going to end up being good or not, we need to just hire someone who's won somewhere - preferably a place that wasn't winning before - or someone who's a complete unknown, but not a known failure. Just minimize the risk and move on when it's time, rather than giving bullshite, retarded extensions after 7-win seasons and keeping someone two or three years longer than we should.
Life's too short to keep this shite up. If this is it, let's all just move on from Arkansas football. This is bullshite.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 3:55 pm to Drewbie
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BP is going to be one of the top options. There are too many openings to compete with and they aren't going to lay all of this team's shortcomings at his feet.
It's almost like we should have fired Pitman last year (which was already too late) when there was less competition. This athletic department is a kangaroo court. It's humiliating on every level.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 3:57 pm to Arksulli
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He's not going to turn things around barring another once in a generation infusion of in state WRs
Well, the last generation when he was here were Millennials. Now they're Gen Z. So, we should be due there
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:00 pm to hawgfaninc
quote:Not if it was year 1.
If that was a Pittman coached game people would be calling for him to be fired yesterday
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:00 pm to VagueMessage
quote:this is the truth. Should’ve been fired after going 4-8. He went 9-6/6-6/4-8 clearly not working and we kept him 2 more off seasons after that. Hunter should’ve been fired over 12 months ago along with Pittman.
It's almost like we should have fired Pitman last year (which was already too late) when there was less competition. This athletic department is a kangaroo court. It's humiliating on every level.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:01 pm to Arksulli
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Can we get Petrino super cheap?
We should offer him like $5M but for every 2 win over 6 he gets a million. Big Bonus for NY6 and Playoffs?
But the major thing should be forcing a DC that can’t answer to Bobby. He runs anyone decent off because he wants the offense to control everything.
He needs a GM to alleviate his number one problem, him being a dickhead.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:03 pm to VagueMessage
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How did you not fricking know the answer wasn't Bobby?
If we had fired him last year or the year before or the year before that, I’d agree, but Yuracuck has screwed us again and did it in the worst head coaching search season,
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:03 pm to FayetteNAM
It’s hard to say the team hasn’t quite given up before this game, but I believe they mail it all the way in now
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:32 pm to ArmyHogs
Well if Tay Tay wasn't a complete fricking idiot we might have beat Auburn.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:42 pm to hawgfaninc
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If that was a Pittman coached game people would be calling for him to be fired yesterday
Anyone who is sane said from the beginning that it's not likely Petrino would be able to make that big of a difference taking over mid-season
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:43 pm to FayetteNAM
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We should offer him like $5M but for every 2 win over 6 he gets a million. Big Bonus for NY6 and Playoffs?
But the major thing should be forcing a DC that can’t answer to Bobby. He runs anyone decent off because he wants the offense to control everything.
He needs a GM to alleviate his number one problem, him being a dickhead.
I think BP would be agreeable to those options. He's not really in a position to demand much. A GM could assure resources are evenly allocated to offense and defense and act as a buffer. IF he will agree to a few things, I think he's our best offer IF the money supports it.
I do think age and grandchildren have made him more sociable. If the team quits on him, all bets are off.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:43 pm to VagueMessage
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It's almost like we should have fired Pitman last year (which was already too late) when there was less competition.
To be fair no one else fired their coach either so the other schools with coaches on the hot seat are probably saying the same thing about their AD. It wasn’t just HY waiting until revenue sharing was implemented.
I get everyone’s point about there being so many other openings but I guess the question is this - would you rather stick with BP knowing what you’re getting to an extent or go with a high-risk, high-reward option like Bob Chesney at JMU knowing not many other P4 schools are going after him? It may fail but Indiana took that risk with Cignetti and made a lot of better programs look silly.
Golesh and Lashlee both lost today too. It’s hard not to be reactionary to every coaching option during the season without finding some warts.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:47 pm to gohogs141
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:54 pm to Drewbie
Bobby Petrino will not be the head coach past the last game of this season.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:57 pm to SmackoverHawg
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If the team quits on him, all bets are off.
They haven’t done that, they didn’t do that until Notre Dame with Pittman.
He can’t be allowed to stack an offense with 60 of the 85 scholarships. I know it’s not that bad, but that’s where a GM comes in. He seems to make good in game calls. But even former players said DC walked out on him after 10-15m or Bobby…
Posted on 10/25/25 at 5:43 pm to gohogs141
Cignetti didn't jump from Bama to JMU.
He didn't jump to a major program like other Saban assistants.
He was a position coach valued by Saban with annual raises who took a pay cut and a dropped down to the FCS and worked his way back up. He had enough self confidence to bet on himself and it paid off for him.
Most of the names being tossed around are familiar because they were mediocre at P4 schools for a long time or they were handed the keys to the program because they worked for someone who had a decent x success rate in the P4.
Just because a guy is doing well at a lower level like coach X doesn't mean he is the next Cignetti, but the next Cignetti is out there and either the boosters would stop his hiring or Hunter would never identify him because name recognition means more than anything else in these searches.
Think about it. Bert won rose bowls, chaggy was somehow credited with Clemson's offensive success, and Pittman was tied to the "success" pre chaggy and with Smarts success at UGA. The top names being thrown around now are familiar names in the sec 15 years ago or coached for a familiar name in the SEC during that time. This isn't going to result in a Cignetti.
He didn't jump to a major program like other Saban assistants.
He was a position coach valued by Saban with annual raises who took a pay cut and a dropped down to the FCS and worked his way back up. He had enough self confidence to bet on himself and it paid off for him.
Most of the names being tossed around are familiar because they were mediocre at P4 schools for a long time or they were handed the keys to the program because they worked for someone who had a decent x success rate in the P4.
Just because a guy is doing well at a lower level like coach X doesn't mean he is the next Cignetti, but the next Cignetti is out there and either the boosters would stop his hiring or Hunter would never identify him because name recognition means more than anything else in these searches.
Think about it. Bert won rose bowls, chaggy was somehow credited with Clemson's offensive success, and Pittman was tied to the "success" pre chaggy and with Smarts success at UGA. The top names being thrown around now are familiar names in the sec 15 years ago or coached for a familiar name in the SEC during that time. This isn't going to result in a Cignetti.
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