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Gus Malzahn retiring
Posted on 2/2/26 at 9:37 am
Posted on 2/2/26 at 9:37 am
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Posted on 2/7/26 at 10:50 pm to Woopigsooie20
Another one to go on the ash heap of Arkansas men who spent their whole career coaching our rivals.
Bear Bryant
Barry Switzer
Jimmy Johnson (Somehow only the third most successful name on the list)
Gus Malzahn
Tommy Tuberville
Butch Davis
Fred Akers
Will One Day make the List -
Rhett Lashlee
Texas Tech Coach whose name I forget.
Bear Bryant
Barry Switzer
Jimmy Johnson (Somehow only the third most successful name on the list)
Gus Malzahn
Tommy Tuberville
Butch Davis
Fred Akers
Will One Day make the List -
Rhett Lashlee
Texas Tech Coach whose name I forget.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 6:50 am to TriStateAreaFootball
Cholly Mac - LSU
Pat Jones - Oklahoma State
Pat Jones - Oklahoma State
Posted on 2/8/26 at 7:25 am to TriStateAreaFootball
Arkansas historically doesn’t like hiring Arkansas coaches. Which is odd considering how many great coaches have come from the state.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 3:40 pm to Woopigsooie20
Dude was a turd with a peanut sticking out of it.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 3:46 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Butch Davis should have been hired back in 2005.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 6:37 pm to Woopigsooie20
Gus was a one trick pony. Once defenses adjusted to the tempo offense he really couldn’t offer anything else.
It’s a shame Nutt wasn’t smart enough to realize Gus’s potential but at the same time who could blame him. He used high school recruits as leverage to take short cuts in ascending the coaching ranks.
This superbowl shows how important administration is. We always seem to make the wrong decisions on football coaches. We’re a lot more like the raiders than the patriots.
It’s a shame Nutt wasn’t smart enough to realize Gus’s potential but at the same time who could blame him. He used high school recruits as leverage to take short cuts in ascending the coaching ranks.
This superbowl shows how important administration is. We always seem to make the wrong decisions on football coaches. We’re a lot more like the raiders than the patriots.
Posted on 2/13/26 at 7:43 am to Woopigsooie20
Posted on 2/13/26 at 6:20 pm to Poker_hog
Gus is a massive chode but 68-35 and 3 NY6 appearances, 1 NCG in 8 years is nothing to sneeze at.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 9:15 am to Poker_hog
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He used high school recruits as leverage to take short cuts in ascending the coaching ranks.
I don't think you understand how many successful football coaches had to do this in order to get into college coaching.
Gus Malzahn, Hugh Freeze, and number of others.
There are a bunch of "Houston Nutt"s in the college ranks. Guys who have never coached anywhere other than college and assume high school coaches just don't what they're doing.
Without leveraging his players, Malzahn would have never made it into college coaching. He would be Buck James today.
Posted on 2/14/26 at 10:23 am to TriStateAreaFootball
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Without leveraging his players, Malzahn would have never made it into college coaching. He would be Buck James today.
That's not true. He was a very successful high school coach. He wouldn't have had any trouble becoming a position coach at a sunbelt type school. He maybe could have been an OC for a lesser school. But an SEC school wasnt making him OC unless he delivered his recruits.
It was clearly unethical behavior to put his interests above his players' interests. He took a shortcut that helped his career.
Whatever happened to the "Springdale five"?
Posted on 2/14/26 at 10:26 am to Poker_hog
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He wouldn't have had any trouble becoming a position coach at a sunbelt type school.
After 10 more years of high school dominance, then maybe. That route has really only ever worked for Art Briles.
Colleges don't give position coaching spots away.
Edit - Division 1 colleges that is. Also, Nutt's staff was so full of nepostism that a "High School coach" arrived and was instantly the most football-knowledgable coach in the room from an offensive standpoint.
This post was edited on 2/14/26 at 10:30 am
Posted on 2/15/26 at 3:48 pm to Poker_hog
all Gus had to do was accept the WR coaching job in 2006 - not demand OC - and then move up from there, and a ton of people would not hate him
but he had to be a spoiled brat and get his way from day one
anyone who says his first year of running our offense was a good thing, has zero clue what they're talking about
but he had to be a spoiled brat and get his way from day one
anyone who says his first year of running our offense was a good thing, has zero clue what they're talking about
Posted on 2/15/26 at 3:49 pm to TriStateAreaFootball
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a "High School coach" arrived and was instantly the most football-knowledgable coach in the room from an offensive standpoint.
absolutely not true
Posted on 2/15/26 at 9:40 pm to TriStateAreaFootball
He would still go the college route.
Just not go straight into the SEC.
Just not go straight into the SEC.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 9:47 pm to Poker_hog
No one in the SEC would have hired Malzahn as OC just to land some recruits.
It was a very Arkansas thing to do.
It was a very Arkansas thing to do.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 1:33 pm to dchog
correct sir
Posted on 2/16/26 at 5:31 pm to dchog
Still seems pretty genius in hindsight after seeing what his career went on to be like.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 5:43 pm to TheCheshireHog
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Still seems pretty genius in hindsight after seeing what his career went on to be like.
Don't bring logic and facts into this discussion.
Just because ya'll don't like Gus, doesn't mean that he wouldn't have been the best head football coach we've had since Lou Holtz.
It is a great travesty that Malzahn went his whole career without coaching at Arkansas whether it was his choice or not.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 9:50 pm to TriStateAreaFootball
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Don't bring logic and facts into this discussion.
Malzahn was a disaster vs USC, Utah State, Vanderbilt and the first half of the Alabama game. Then he got the offense jerked away from him at halftime of Alabama, which helped us barely win.
Go check the scored on those. Go check the first half of Bama.
Your boy's tenure as OC at Arkansas was the first three games, and then the first half of Bama.
total disaster
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