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re: Solely about football. Are SMU and Texas Tech more desirable coaching jobs than Arkansas?
Posted on 7/29/25 at 2:13 pm to GoGators1995
Posted on 7/29/25 at 2:13 pm to GoGators1995
quote:That explains so much.
Marquel Wade (New Berlin, NY)
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 2:20 pm to Wildcat23
They all played soft OCC schedules and didn't seek tougher OCC competition unlike today.
Occasionally they did play tougher OCC games but not on a yearly basis.
Occasionally they did play tougher OCC games but not on a yearly basis.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 3:46 pm to ScotlandAve
Not trolling, solely about football...
SMU is the best job- as long as the ACC remains a P4 conference. They have been there 1 year, and have already made the playoffs. And they didn't even have to beat Clemson to do so, just make the championship game.
Arkansas, in contrast, has to overcome a lot of really good programs in the SEC, even if they were to spend a ton of money.
SMU is the best job- as long as the ACC remains a P4 conference. They have been there 1 year, and have already made the playoffs. And they didn't even have to beat Clemson to do so, just make the championship game.
Arkansas, in contrast, has to overcome a lot of really good programs in the SEC, even if they were to spend a ton of money.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 3:48 pm to GoGators1995
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Tyson chicken.
he's all basketball for NIL
Posted on 7/29/25 at 4:26 pm to ScotlandAve
Hell no, with good coaching, Arkansas has proven to produce top 10 teams consistently
Posted on 7/29/25 at 4:39 pm to ColoradoElkHerd
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Dude please stop. Have you even been to Lubbock and seen the 60,000 capacity stadium? Last time I checked the tech tards were 24th or so in 2026 recruiting.
Arky is a much better job.
..And we will still have a better program than aggy. Relative to your resources, your football sucks, your basketball disappoints year in and year out. But hey, you do win some meat judging contest every now and then.
At least we have been to a National Championship game in a major sport in the last 10 years. Have you clown ever made it to the Elite 8 ?
Aggy doing less with more- Year in and year out.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 4:43 pm to deeprig9
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What did they ever do to anybody?
you haven’t been here that long
for you my friend
Posted on 7/29/25 at 5:09 pm to phaz
I don't know about that but I can see Arkansas having similar results to what Frank Beamer did at Virginia Tech and Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State if this was at full potential.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:45 pm to dchog
This is all perspective. Put Texas Tech and SMU and they will always be bottom feeders barring the occasional generational QB. Put Arkansas in their shoes and we probably win 9+ a season even with the current average coaching situation. We are night and day a better football program yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:30 pm to Scoob
quote:I actually agree. If I'm a coach, I'm not leaving SMU for Arkansas. The price of a playoff ticket is significantly cheaper at SMU than it is at Arkansas, and they're willing to spend more regardless of that fact. SMU is currently a much better destination to grow a coach's reputation.
Not trolling, solely about football...
SMU is the best job- as long as the ACC remains a P4 conference. They have been there 1 year, and have already made the playoffs. And they didn't even have to beat Clemson to do so, just make the championship game.
The playoff expansion changed a ton. Conference prestige doesn't matter nearly as much as long as your conference still has an auto bid. It's much better to be an SMU with a leg up on the vast majority of your conference than to be at a bigger program like Arkansas that still has to fight a conference like the SEC with one arm tied behind its back due to a lack of NIL investment.
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 9:00 pm to Hmanhunt
SMU had to cheat in the 80s and didn't really accomplish much and while Arkansas stayed clean that was able to help them win the marathon.
So in a weird way, Arkansas wasn't really trying that hard and still had more success than SMU. If they really tried by becoming an outlaw program then Arkansas would have left SMU further in the dust.
That is pretty much the highlight of SMU football unless you go back 30 plus years before that.
So in a weird way, Arkansas wasn't really trying that hard and still had more success than SMU. If they really tried by becoming an outlaw program then Arkansas would have left SMU further in the dust.
That is pretty much the highlight of SMU football unless you go back 30 plus years before that.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 9:38 pm to Drewbie
That could be said for the rest of the SEC members concerning a path to the playoffs.
Why did Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC when they had an easier path to the playoffs in the Big 12?
Why besides the money should any program stay in SEC when they could join an easier conference and make the playoffs every year?
Why did Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC when they had an easier path to the playoffs in the Big 12?
Why besides the money should any program stay in SEC when they could join an easier conference and make the playoffs every year?
Posted on 7/30/25 at 11:10 am to phaz
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Arkansas has proven to produce top 10 teams consistently
Arkansas has finished in the AP top 10 once in the last 40 years
Posted on 7/30/25 at 1:15 pm to dchog
quote:You answered your own question. Making money is the #1 priority for these people. The difference between them and us is they're also willing to spend enough to be competitive. We're clearly not.
Why besides the money should any program stay in SEC when they could join an easier conference and make the playoffs every year?
Posted on 8/7/25 at 11:57 pm to ScotlandAve
TT got the commitment of the #1 edge in the ‘27 class.
Posted on 8/8/25 at 12:12 am to Drewbie
Yeah the Kiffin and Carter show really put y'all in a spin didn’t it?
Posted on 8/8/25 at 1:08 am to ScotlandAve
I feel like that commitment still has a long ways to go. Texas Tech is going to get in there with a huge bid to try to scare everyone else away. We'll see where the market goes over the course of the year. My belief is that we're in the beginnings of a bubble market - I call it the tulip mania phase. There will be plenty of other programs over the course of the season that figure out the market for purchasing top tier high school talent has risen enormously again, and the alumni will again make a personal financial decision if they're going to contribute at a level that allows their alma mater to compete at a championship level, or if the price has just gotten too high.
We've seen USC and Miami put offers out there that no one else was going to remotely touch. Texas Tech with the Double Eagle money has been doing the same. But those programs aren't winning every recruitment, so they have a limit.
It's still very interesting to me he committed to Texas Tech this early. I'm surprised no one has made a thread about it, especially since he's out of Savannah, GA.
LaDamion Guyton
We've seen USC and Miami put offers out there that no one else was going to remotely touch. Texas Tech with the Double Eagle money has been doing the same. But those programs aren't winning every recruitment, so they have a limit.
It's still very interesting to me he committed to Texas Tech this early. I'm surprised no one has made a thread about it, especially since he's out of Savannah, GA.
LaDamion Guyton
Posted on 8/8/25 at 3:42 am to SL Xpress
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It's still very interesting to me he committed to Texas Tech this early. I'm surprised no one has made a thread about it, especially since he's out of Savannah, GA.
Stephen Cannon is a Texas Tech commit in the class of '26 and goes to high school with Guyton ('27). I'm not saying thats the reason he picked Tech but they are clearly buds.
Also think Cody Campbell being an ex football player under Mike Leach is helpful to their cause.
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