re: Why Arkansas always have so many players go in the portal?

They're still chasing the Neon Rainbow (NFL Money that isn't going to happen). It is good to get rid of all your recruiting mistakes as soon as possible. Help them pack and recruit over them.

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Pittman wasn't hired to win a championship. They won't say that out loud, but that's the reality.

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Every Arkansas fan has to hope for the best, but literally no one thinks he was hired to win a championship, and no one believes he will. Other than that, I don't know why your post is being downvoted.

We were slated to play in a bowl in '20 against TCU before it got canceled. If we kept our cupcake non-cons, that was a 6–6 year. This is three bowls in a row he's gotten us to, so he's obviously stabilized the program in short order. And in year three, it's a little too early to pull the plug. If he gets it all figured out pretty soon and consistently wins 8/9 a year, he's loved enough that he'll get to stay awhile.

The bottom line is we hired someone who is a natural leader across the board, but his lack of experience at HC and the lack of ambition in CFB to prepare him for that jump has bitten him and us in the arse. He could secretly be a championship level coach, but in taking this job at 59, he waited too long to spend a decade learning how to be a head coach.

It's not really the University's fault. Arkansas produces the fewest blue chip football recruits in all 11 of the SEC states (soon to be 12) by a fairly significant margin. However, I will say that Sam Pittman has been the first coach to start keeping the top in-state recruit actually in state, which I think is absolutely the first step. Sometimes that top recruit is the only 4* to come out of Arkansas that year. Until we address this issue of high school football not being very competitive on a national level, we're stuck at the middle of the pack in football. It's frustrating because it's only a matter of time before we frick around and win some basketball and baseball natties, but the football natty seems as out of sight as Arkansas winning a Super Bowl. And make no mistake, we ARE a state that cares about football. Our fans turn up even at the worst of times. But maybe that's the problem. Until our administration gets serious about winning football games (which means not hiring the SMU coach with a losing record, not hiring lifelong o-line coaches, and not getting fat alcoholics ludicrious extensions for a 7–6 season that still leaves them with a losing overall record), we won't see the improvement we want. And until fans stop being OK with mediocre to downright terrible on-field products, then the motivation to stop kowtowing to our Fortune 500 boosters isn't very strong.

Let’s see, no chance of winning anything ever.

Have you been to Arkansas?

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Let’s see, no chance of winning anything ever.

Have you been to Arkansas?

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This really loses its bite when a Tennessee fan says it. No baseball or basketball natties, and two football championships from 70 and 25 years ago.

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I have said this since he got hired.

He was the perfect dude to take all the talent Chad Morris recruited (That was left) and actually do something with it.

Beyond that he is not a capable P5 head coach.

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Lol. Arkansas has started the last 2 seasons 4-0 and 3-0, both years in the Top 10.

Drink hasn't even had a winning season and this is year 3.

Worry about your own coach.

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Other than that, I don't know why your post is being downvoted.

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I can’t say for sure (because I didn’t read past what you quoted) but he’s a dick pretty much always so for every one downvote he probably deserves 50.

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Bill Snyder made Kansas State - one of the absolute worst "P5" football programs in the nation - into a consistent competitor by smartly utilizing JUCOs. 

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While true, he also recruited kids that sat on the bench, grew and stayed. If I remember correctly, his teams were always upperclassmen heavy.

Serraneaux,

Can't wait until Tennessee sucks again!

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Pitboss!

6-6. Lol.

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What's your point? Derek Dooley never had a winning season at Tennessee. Lane Kiffin lost six games the one year he was there before he bolted for a real job. Butch Jones lost six games three of his five years and never did better than Sam's 9–4, while bringing in back-to-back top ten and top five recruiting classes. Two of three for Jeremy Pruitt were losing seasons with a high of 8–5.

That's four coaches in a row, and #5 has yet to prove he's not a flash in the pan. At some point, you have to realize the problem is you and you're not who you thought you were.