re: Why is Gus Malzahn hated among so many Arkansas Razorback fans?

Posted on 12/18/13 at 8:03 pm to TTsTowel

Posted by Russvegas Dan

Member since Nov 2012

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Posted on 12/18/13 at 8:03 pm to TTsTowel

Originally posted by Feral:

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There are a number of reasons dating back to the 2006/Mustain recruitment years.

Some think he never deserved the OC job and should've just gotten a job as a position coach. It bred infighting on the staff.

Some think he made too many promises we couldn't keep to Mustain, Williams and Cleveland, which bred resentment from and towards them. Some also think he didn't do enough to quell their parents' involvement, either.

Some have a bitter taste in their mouths for the way pretty much the entirety of the city of Springdale turned on the program after Mustain, Williams and Malzahn left after the 2006 season. Many Springdale people/Malzahn fanboys from his days at SCS/SHS gave up their season tickets and swore off the Hogs.

A lot of people dislike him for his (alleged) part in Camgate and the 2010 season.

A lot of people don't like the fact that he was pretty successful at mining Arkansas for recruits while at both Tulsa and Auburn.

A lot of people didn't care for the fact he spent all of his lone season at ASU taking potshots at tFlagship and trying to gin up a nonexistent rivalry, even going as far as saying that ASU-UA should play at War Memorial (laughable). He even spouted a bunch of nonsense about turning ASU into "the Boise of the South."

A lot of Hog fans who either also root for or graduated from ASU were extremely turned off by him bolting after one year, if anything because talked about year about how it was home and about how he and Kristi were "in it for the long haul" and all that nonsense.

For the most part, a great number of our fans didn't want him because he had/has two things against him that made firing Nutt almost impossible: he's a homegrown boy with deep ties among powerful people in the state and he has an entire town/city in his back pocket (he has Springdale, Nutt had Little Rock). Like I've said before, if Bert sucks after 3 years, he's probably gone; if Malzahn would've sucked after 3 years, his allies would have been right there to save him.