he is a solid coach. NCAA football is set up for only a few programs to succeed every year. Look at the preseason and the final rankings every year. The people who have votes vote for the same teams every year. This years top 10 will be a little different. I do not believe K State would have played for the championship if they went undefeated.

Basketball and baseball have playoffs. Schools that have a good year and are hot at the end of the year can go far. Not in football.

Belimia wins the games he should and beats Michigan, OSU, and PSU every once in a while. He will have to pick it up to win in the SEC but he is only 42 and should be able to do that.

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Posted by Stripes314

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Posted on 12/5/12 at 5:54 pm to mograyback

He isnt a great recruiter, by any means. He acknowledges this, hence why he wanted to bring in good assistants to mitigate this. The problem is Wisco would refuse to pay them. This came to a head, when he lost 6 assistant coaches coming into this year which probably was what pushed him out of the door. They left because the AD wouldnt give them competitive salaries.

Arkansas has made that clear that he wont run into that problem. As for Ball and Wilson, I mean at a certain point it came down to coaching as far as recruiting them and getting them to fit within the system. Its not like Russell Wilson, unprompted picked Wisco out of a hat. Biel out recruited him, over other schools and brought him in.

Now, enough of pimping Arkansas' hire. I this actually made me even more confident of the lengths we will be willing to go through to "Step up". It starts with Offensive Coordinator, but it will be exciting to see how our next football hire will play out.

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