So we let Chris Beard leave the state huh?

Still needs to prove he can build and maintain a program.

Not ready to crown him the next Coach K just yet.

I want someone proven across the board.

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Still needs to prove he can build and maintain a program.

Not ready to crown him the next Coach K just yet.

I want someone proven across the board.

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so...that sounds like what Mike Anderson was.





I just want a young winner.

He’s got a bunch of coaches here. Anderson and Bucknam should be two hottest seats.

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He’s got a bunch of coaches here. Anderson and Bucknam should be two hottest seats.

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Those are really the only two left that should be on the hot seat.

Neighbors - great hire albeit too late and after the disastrous Dykes hire

Deifel - awesome hire ---- has really done an amazing job with the softball team

Hale - great hire.... needs to win the SEC tournament soon but overall has done a great job. Has made it to something like 3 SEC finals in a row. Destroyed little rock college in the postseason.

We dont necessarily need someone who is proven we need someone who is willing to take over this program and improve it. It isnt going to happen over night if we fire Mike, and I think a lot of us that want him gone arent expecting a quick improvement. What place are we in currently? In the SEC? It will take time, but we need someone who will improve recruiting, be aggressive with the players and ensure progress is being made.

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Like Mike Anderson when we hired him?

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What?

He had like 9 years of D1 coaching and 6 NCAA appearances and left a team that was a 2 seed the next year.

Beard has 4 with 2 NCAATs. Yes an elite 8 but he needs to be more proven. If his teams make more of a run this year I'll start to be convinced but I would prefer someone with at least 4-5 years of success.

We are allowed to curse here ? Wow thats refreshing. This is nothing like that pussy arse board which seems to be run by a bunch of bipolar homosexuals.

Without a doubt Chris Beard would be the first guy I called if I were H.Y. After that it would be Sampson and so on... I do NOT have any sources, I'm just an average fan. So I have no idea if he would consider us.

I have read that a lot. Not just from you. Why do you say that ? Gut feeling ? Read something ? I'm curious why people think this. Surely we are a better program than T. Tech ?

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Surely we are a better program than T. Tech ?

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Tech is a top 25 team, and their stock is rising. Arkansas needs a total rebuild. what do we offer Beard, right now, that he cant do at Tech? win titles? make the tournament? sweet 16s? i dont what people think Arkansas, right now, offers more than alot of other schools.

we could offer more money, but how much more?

Beard treated UNLV like Altman treated us, to go to Tech. he knows the school, he knows the AD, he clearly has affection for the program. he knows the recruiting, he knows the support systems, everything was set up for him to hit the ground running, and he has. at arkansas, hed be starting over from scratch. its pretty clear he WANTS to build Tech up. he just got a big ol' raise and called it his dream job. we'd be, at best, a lateral move, and need to find a coach who wants to be at Arkansas and build it up like Beard is doing at Tech, not someone who A. has their heart at another school and state and B. is looking to springboard up to a big time program.