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Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by themicah85 
on 1/17/21 at 10:43 am
on 1/17/21 at 10:43 am
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1I was under the impression that he had strung together a few great seasons at smu but just looked up his record and the best they ever did under him was 7-5. What made arkansas pull the trigger on that?
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by Cornelius 
on 1/17/21 at 10:46 am to themicah85
on 1/17/21 at 10:46 am to themicah85Jerry Jones.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by themicah85 on 1/17/21 at 10:51 am to Cornelius
on 1/17/21 at 10:51 am to Corneliusquote:
Jerry Jones.
I get that he is a maniacal control freak with billions of dollars but still why? In order to make the amount of money he's made you have to make some good decisions at some point. I get that even successful people make the wrong choices sometime (see our current football program) but there was no reason to even think that was gonna work out. Were him and Chad Morris best friends or something like that im missing.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by Porker Face 
on 1/17/21 at 11:07 am to themicah85
on 1/17/21 at 11:07 am to themicah85Most fans had the same initial reaction. A few idiotic boosters and trustees fell for a sales pitch that we would sling the ball 70 times a game and win with 2* croots
They felt hook line and sinker for his time as OC at Clemson and thought he would be Gus 2.0. he also had Texas high school ties that make a certain portion of our fanbase salivate
They felt hook line and sinker for his time as OC at Clemson and thought he would be Gus 2.0. he also had Texas high school ties that make a certain portion of our fanbase salivate
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by Diego Ricardo 
on 1/17/21 at 11:09 am to Porker Face
on 1/17/21 at 11:09 am to Porker FaceProabably worth noting that Clemson got better when he left. Maybe nothing but a coincidence yet interesting nonetheless
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by themicah85 on 1/17/21 at 11:16 am to Porker Face
on 1/17/21 at 11:16 am to Porker FaceI don't understand why he was even interviewed. Going out on a limb and hiring the coach from north Dakota state or one of those schools that always wins the d2 title is one thing, hell even hiring a highschool coach that won multiple consecutivestate titles, he had a very unimpressive resume in tact already as a head coach
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by johnzorback on 1/17/21 at 11:31 am to themicah85
on 1/17/21 at 11:31 am to themicah85When Arkansas was in the SWC we were the #2 choice for recruits in Texas. We did fairly well afterwards until tamu joined the SEC. The idea was to get the Texas pipeline back in a big way, especially after bielema burned some bridges in Texas recruiting.
SMU was in a bad place since the death penalty, so older people thought turning SMU around was a great feat, which it would have been in the 90s, but it's been over 30 years ago.
SMU was in a bad place since the death penalty, so older people thought turning SMU around was a great feat, which it would have been in the 90s, but it's been over 30 years ago.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by ColoradoAg 
on 1/17/21 at 11:36 am to johnzorback
on 1/17/21 at 11:36 am to johnzorbackEvery team was out there looking for next big offensive guru. The funny thing is if A&M boosters had gotten their way instead of the AD, Morris would have probably been at A&M
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re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by Rogelio on 1/17/21 at 11:55 am to ColoradoAg
on 1/17/21 at 11:55 am to ColoradoAgquote:
Every team was out there looking for next big offensive guru.
Can't believe people do this. Why not look for a CEO type who can do the work of finding the right X and O guys who can make that happen?
An AD or boosters have no idea what an offensive guru looks like.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by Hback on 1/17/21 at 12:07 pm to themicah85
on 1/17/21 at 12:07 pm to themicah85And Ryan McGee said “my favorite hire of the off-season was Arkansas getting Chad Morris”. Bet he’d like to have that one back.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by Whiznot 
on 1/17/21 at 12:20 pm to themicah85
on 1/17/21 at 12:20 pm to themicah85They didn't know that every Chad is bad. You will never meet a Chad that's worth anything.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by gohogs141 on 1/17/21 at 12:29 pm to themicah85
on 1/17/21 at 12:29 pm to themicah85quote:
Were him and Chad Morris best friends or something like that im missing.
Chad’s son Chandler (who just transferred from Oklahoma to TCU) played on the same Dallas high school team (Highland Park) as Jerry’s grandson (John Stephen Jones, now our clipboard holding QB) so I’m sure that played a factor. SMU is just a stone’s throw away from Cowboys Stadium.
Chad wasn’t a bad recruiter but it’s obvious now that he takes way too much credit for Deshaun Watson and what happened at Clemson. At the time we just wanted a coach who ran a spread offense (opposite of Bielema) with Texas connections. Kendal Briles checks those boxes for us now though.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by Bench McElroy on 1/17/21 at 12:35 pm to Diego Ricardo
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Proabably worth noting that Clemson got better when he left. Maybe nothing but a coincidence yet interesting nonetheless
Their improvement coincided with the implosion of their biggest conference rival, Florida State as well as the arrivals of Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence who were way better QBs than Tahj Boyd.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by momentoftruth87 
on 1/17/21 at 12:38 pm to themicah85
on 1/17/21 at 12:38 pm to themicah85Jerry's grandson played w Chad's kid.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by MoonMoon2020 on 1/17/21 at 12:44 pm to momentoftruth87
on 1/17/21 at 12:44 pm to momentoftruth87No one knew he was so bad. Like ColoradoAg said, we were also considering him. At the time his track record was prolific Clemson offense and SMU turnaround.
re: Why did Chad Morris ever get hired at arkansas?Posted by themicah85 on 1/17/21 at 12:46 pm to Rogelio
on 1/17/21 at 12:46 pm to RogelioThe Arizona cardinals hired kliff Kingsbury and they most likely would have made atleast the wildcard if they were in a different division. Love it or hate it alabama was great this year because of offense. If most teams lose 2 starting wr's they can't just replace them with other 4 and 5 star receivers
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