Not listening to the "Silverfield took over a a bad situation argument".

They spent more money but the return got the same scraps from P4/G5/FCS teams.

It's not the coaching.

It's not the talent.

It's a decaying reputation of a once solid program that is looked at by recruits from high school and the portal as Vandy but without the academics.

It's a place where bad players end a career while getting paid more.

It is the worst situation in the SEC, if I were a coach I'd rather go to Vandy or Kentucky or State than Arkansas.

Petrino had the gift. He could take average teams and make them function.

Look what he did when he had above average talent, we were close to the top.

What we are seeing now is NEVER going to work. We don't do anything well.

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It's not the coaching.

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You did see where Utah said they knew every play if we were running vs passing right?

And then Silverado addressing it saying they caught that on film against UNA….

She was still the "leader" of the coaching search, but it doesn't really matter who they still hired Chad Morris and the program was never going to recover for several cycles after that. Hell even at the time some said Arkansas may never recover from the damage caused by that hire like it was a modern self imposed death penalty and it almost seems like that. Maybe in another decade.

Still should have hired Mike Gundy.

It will take money to get us out of this hole.

Need a big D swinging AD hire that can pry money from peoples hands.

Somebody that can sell donating 135 mil in year one to fire the current staff, hire a top notch new one, with 50 mil allotted for roster construction.

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I'm not sure if it's true other coaches wanted the job or not, most just use Arkansas as leverage for a raise/extension or better deal without us actually being a serious contender. Very similar to basketball when we hired Stan Heath because he was black and started a string of god awful hires.

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this is such a bullshite take. You think we were any worse from a perception standpoint than Mississippi state after they fired Zach arnett? Who they fired after 1 fricking year mind you because they just made a decision we don’t want to suck anymore and went out and got Jeff lebby. You think we have a worse perception in coaching circles than Kentucky? A school that will always always put basketball first? You think we were in a worse position than last Oklahoma state last year? Who has way less money and had an even worse season than we did?These are rhetorical in case you don’t know, the answer to both is frick no! Of course Ryan fricking silverfield was not the only swinging dick in America who would take the job. Maybe James Franklin or Matt Campbell wouldn’t, maybe golesh and sumrall wouldn’t, but there were more capable hires out there who would’ve taken the job.

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You think we were any worse from a perception standpoint than Mississippi state after they fired Zach arnett? Who they fired after 1 fricking year mind you because they just made a decision we don’t want to suck anymore and went out and got Jeff lebby. You think we have a worse perception in coaching circles than Kentucky? A school that will always always put basketball first? You think we were in a worse position than last Oklahoma state last year? Who has way less money and had an even worse season than we did?These are rhetorical in case you don’t know, the answer to both is frick no! Of course Ryan fricking silverfield was not the only swinging dick in America who would take the job. Maybe James Franklin or Matt Campbell wouldn’t, maybe golesh and sumrall wouldn’t, but there were more capable hires out there who would’ve taken the job.

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Yes to all. Any coach would take Oklahoma State job over us for the same contract, no brainer.

Arkansas' NIL this year for football is $500K above Kentucky. We put basketball first as do our donors so idk what you're even saying there. Outdated take not relevant in 2026.

They also lost to 1 win Tulsa which cancels out that win. And yeah their top players followed their coach from UNT to his new school, same thing for Cignetti when his top players followed him from JMU so you didn't have a lot of new faces learning a new system. Several Indiana starters that won a natty were from JMU.

The main thing for them was Mestemaker sticking with him despite tons of big offers elsewhere so they had the #2 transfer QB who is a projected first round pick.

Much easier to have success at OSU in the Big 12 than Arkansas in the SEC is largely why. Golesh when he used us for leverage also mentioned much better fan support at Auburn as a reason in addition to the money.