I've heard both versions. I would, however, not put it past Frank Broyles to fire someone on the field.

Broyles was a great coach, a gifted administrator, and at one point in time the most powerful person in the state of Arkansas. Even Bill Clinton deferred to the man.

Broyles did, however, have a bit of a control freak thing going on. He would show up to practices when he was the AD with his own playbook and hound the coaches to use his plays. If you were a basketball or football coach you had to put up with Broyles believing, deep in his heart, that he was much better then you.

Which is why you can build a Hall of Fame and fill it with just the coaches that Frank ran off. Hatfield, as an example, was so eager to get away from Broyles he took the Clemson job without ever having seen the campus.

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Posted by Dday63

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Posted on 5/2/19 at 11:20 am to Hailstate15

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Didn’t Jackie Sherrill castrate a bull before we played Texas?

There was so much odd about Jackie Sherrill it's hard to know which story to cling to. He had a bull calf castrated in front of the team before playing Texas, because our players didn't know what a steer was. He accused Auburn of using under-inflated footballs in their passing game, and/or of putting helium in their balls for punting. He also had a fixation with clowns, and used to dress up as a clown to visit children's hospitals.

Then there was Ron Polk, who was a "confirmed bachelor" as we used to say, and reportedly would not change his underwear during a winning streak....

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