re: Why did Houston nutt step down at arkansas in 07?

From the outside looking in he always gave LSU fits so I always held him in high regard. I know it's different when he's your coach though. I hated Les but many liked him.

Nutt became the first head coach in Arkansas to survive back to back losing seasons since the 1950s.

After that his ego got way bigger.

I remember he had Felix Jones and McFadden on the bench as Nutt ran the ball four times and turned it over on downs.

Nutt could have had that average to 8 wins a year if he wasn't so stubborn regarding not giving up his OC duties and give it to a real OC.

Then he would get mad if he got criticism for not developing any QBs and double down.

Those kept his teams from being really good.

I was against that hire from the beginning.

Nutt was a cancer. Had the state divided. He used his downhome Arkansawyer image to leverage raise after raise. He peaked his 1st season, and then he choked vs Tenner and State. (I know CS fumbled, but we should've never been in that situation, we were up 24-7 I think.)

Then,to top it off, after he "resigned to ol miss, the ptb let his staff... who was ALSO going to ol miss... coach the Hogs in a bowl game. They didn't want the Hogs recruiting off a big win so they tanked a bowl game to Mizzou and the Lil Tigers still get a wet spot in their panties every time they get to talk about beating McFadden in the Cotton Bowl. frick him, frick them and frick him again

It happened each year that Nutt didn't do his own evaluations but instead offer a recruit once everyone else has offered.

Sam was much more aggressive with his evaluations and offers some of his recruits before other programs offer. He builds better relationships with these recruits.

Nutt picked the low hanging recruits such as the academic risks. He signed 37 at Ole Miss, many of which were never going to qualify and got Ole Miss in trouble.

He signed troubled recruits that many programs passed on and yet the discipline was bad on and off the field.


What does the transfer portal have to do with this?


Sam is just a superior recruiter because he has an idea of what he is doing and isn't lazy.

Nutt ran out of Matt Jones and Darren McFaddens.

Foundation is run by some fricked up individuals. Always has been, always will be.
They are scared in every way you could imagine, and even is some ways you couldn't.
They are like a soup sandwich. What kind of literal retards fire the winningest coach you have ever had because he was getting some on the side. Their ineptitude is so bad it is borderline criminal.