Sam Pittman expectations

Winning seasons

The ability to have a successful PAT

Recruit more than three 4* players in a class.

In the current class of 20 commits that’s all he has.

I don’t care which way you look at it - competitive offers, measurables, HS competition level...etc.
Continue being average there and you’ll have a nice, respectful average team in an above-average conference.

Pittman was lauded as a recruiter coming in.
Let’s see it.

Dear diary.

We suck

Great. 3.5 million/year bargain.

I am not understanding everyone's attitude with this season.
Consider the following.

We were the absolute laughing stock of the SEC the last 3-5 years overall. We hired a career Oline coach as HC, and were laughed at even more when we could have had Leach, or Kiffin, or Drink, or....

We then conversely beat 3 SEC teams in the Career Oline Coaches 1st season which was a shock to all of the world.

What do I expect, ... To be competitive against all teams other than Bama year in and year out, to have an uptick in recruiting if/when visits are allowed once more, to field a competent staff.

He will take the time Bert was most successful, without the head scratching losses and win 9-10 in the next 3 years. I really think the loss today, and the loss against LSU have clouded the direction that a 1st year coach is heading, during a covid year, against an all SEC schedule, ... Shaking my head!

It isn't all doom and gloom folks, give him a little time, damn!

Its a perfect example of where we are now compared to the last two years.

It kind of just proves how much Sam has moved the program from 0-16.

I really do like Sam but he isn't going to average 9/10 wins a year here.

The only coach that came close here was Bobby and he was a great game day manager and outcoached his competition. But even he had a weakness as a coach.

He is the guy that will get us bowling again and that is it. Then he will retire and Arkansas will be in a better position to take another step up in the win category.

Dude- Petrino's weakness as a coach at Arkansas was telling Jeff Ego Long to frick off.

If you think Petrino was the first coach to bang a staffer or if that was even the first time Petrino had banged a staffer... just don't.

Difference is programs that have glossed over those road-bumps and those that have let them become large, gaping fricking craters for your program to fall into.


Look past Petrino and Pittman... even look past Long and Yurachek.
Who is at the higher-levels of decision-making in regards to U of A athletics, and how have they let wallowing mediocrity become the norm and the national expectation?

Start naming names there, because it's that level of leadership that has failed Arkansas football fans.
Question is do you think they care? Why bother 'paying' for a team that sells out the stadium? That's just hard for a program in Arkansas so far from the conference epicenter... much easier to just take the SEC check, throw the fans some nice nuggets with beer and club seating from time to time... there you go.

That doesn't say shite about Arkansas caring about winning.

It does say Arkansas cares about being flat-out embarrassing.

It was embarrassing enough having all those names as long as we did.

We'll never know what Petrino could or could not have sustained... what weaknesses that team had were on the defensive side of the ball.
He had fired the DC and hired a guy to replace him.

It's comfortable to say his results would have dropped off, because that somehow makes the ensuing gross ineptitude more palatable for some people.


It's as close Arkansas has come to having a no-excuses, frick-you unapologetic winner since Nolan.