re: National media coming around on Pittman

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National media coming around on Pittman

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Also, are they really though? I remember reading an article yesterday which seems to more accurately capture the prevailing sentiment....

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The Razorbacks ran away with the award for most lampooned coaching search within the college athletics community.

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The reaction from athletics director Hunter Yurachek’s colleagues over the last 10 days after hiring Pittman has been equal parts sympathy and bewilderment, as it’s hard to find anyone in college football who believes this will work.

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One of them was Pittman, who had campaigned for the job from the very beginning but had fallen completely off the radar toward the end of the search. Then within a matter of hours on Dec. 8, Pittman went from outside the candidate pool to the head coach — a metaphorical throwing up of the hands on the part of Yurachek.

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Now, Arkansas has no choice but to give Pittman some time. It seems unlikely it will work

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USA Today

Cue the “this guy is a hack!” replies in 3......2....1......