Dear Arkansas,

It's not you, it's me.

Signed,
Every coach not named Chad Morris

Think about it. They couldn't hire a coach that has scored about 150 points on them in the last three years so they hired a coach we scored 180 points on in the last 3 years.

I know Arkansas grads. Smart, successful people. Their athletics department may be the dumbest frickers on earth.

(12-06-2017 12:41 PM)Tiger5 Wrote:  my 2 cents

The Arkansas squad returning was subpar, they were playing walk-ons on the O-Line. It was going to be a tough rebuild project.

Norvell could stay at Memphis 1-3 more years and kill it here. And wait for a bigger program job to open. Why go to Arkansas and struggle with fan expectation when you finish 4th in the SEC west every year if your end goal is a bigger program.

Who knows, Norvell might be really happy here and the raise he got was just the beginning and he plans on building Memphis into a TCU like team. And if he does this, he'll get paid power 5 money staying at Memphis.

Most logical explanation...

(12-06-2017 01:14 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Dear Arkansas,

It's not me, it's you.

Signed,
Every coach not named Chad Morris

fixed it for ya

(12-06-2017 01:19 PM)gotigers1 Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 01:14 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Dear Arkansas,

It's not me, it's you.

Signed,
Every coach not named Chad Morris

fixed it for ya

Dear Coaches,

You all suck and have red flags. I love my Chad.

Signed,
Little Piggy

Hog killing time in Tennessee

(12-06-2017 02:59 PM)OldManTiger Wrote:  Hog killing time in Tennessee

Wonder How many Coaches turned Down Phil Fulmer this week thus far?

(12-06-2017 03:13 PM)Bill83 Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 02:59 PM)OldManTiger Wrote:  Hog killing time in Tennessee

Wonder How many Coaches turned Down Phil Fulmer this week thus far?

He's probably going room to room in New York offering the job. What a clown.

(12-06-2017 01:18 PM)daniel2023 Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 12:41 PM)Tiger5 Wrote:  my 2 cents

The Arkansas squad returning was subpar, they were playing walk-ons on the O-Line. It was going to be a tough rebuild project.

Norvell could stay at Memphis 1-3 more years and kill it here. And wait for a bigger program job to open. Why go to Arkansas and struggle with fan expectation when you finish 4th in the SEC west every year if your end goal is a bigger program.

Who knows, Norvell might be really happy here and the raise he got was just the beginning and he plans on building Memphis into a TCU like team. And if he does this, he'll get paid power 5 money staying at Memphis.

Most logical explanation...

AR unwilling to pay the needed premium to motivate a successful coach like Norvell, given it's had 7 coaches in the last 25 yrs., is a perennial 4th place SEC west finisher & has never won the SEC

Something happened ... glad it did. I've heard they wanted to pick his DC, that he wanted to coach team in Liberty Bowl, and the skeletons in the closet excuses ... and the real reason will go in the closet with the skeletons. Yeah US ...

My Memphis tax teacher's (Malloy) favorite slogan

Pigs get fatter

Hogs get slaughtered

This might have been the logic used to stay at Memphis

I mean, he is the hottest young coach out there and would fit in great out here plus how great would it be to take something from Memphis.

Er, I meant why would we want a AAC second share coach.

HAAAWWWWE. HAWEEEEWWW DORKS.

(12-06-2017 10:03 AM)tigerlands Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 09:49 AM)UOFMGLENN Wrote:  Maybe he didn't want to be like Dana Altman and get freaked out calling the hogs and then change his mind.

I had the same thought. I just see them asking future coaches if they can call the Hogs. And those coaches looking at them and rolling eyes.

(12-06-2017 03:39 PM)Mimi Wrote:  I mean, he is the hottest young coach out there and would fit in great out here plus how great would it be to take something from Memphis.

Er, I meant why would we want a AAC second share coach.

HAAAWWWWE. HAWEEEEWWW DORKS.

Hogs hired a coach we scored 180 points on in 3 years. Lmao

(12-06-2017 03:19 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 01:18 PM)daniel2023 Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 12:41 PM)Tiger5 Wrote:  my 2 cents

The Arkansas squad returning was subpar, they were playing walk-ons on the O-Line. It was going to be a tough rebuild project.

Most logical explanation...

AR unwilling to pay the needed premium to motivate a successful coach like Norvell, given it's had 7 coaches in the last 25 yrs., is a perennial 4th place SEC west finisher & has never won the SEC

Atlanta, don't get this continued focus on '7 coaches in last 25 years' you keep quoting. First, it's not 7. And kind of a meaningless metric. Almost all schools have had 5 or 6 full-time coaches in the last 25 seasons.

And it's really 5 coaches - Ford, Nutt, Petrino, John L. Smith, Bielma. If you are counting guys who coach the bowl games after coaches leave, that's a stretch, IMO.

Last 25 seasons, Alabama has had 5 full-time - Stallings, Dubose, Franchione, Shula, Saban (not including Kines who coached a bowl, and Price who never coached a game).

Memphis has had 6 - Stobart, Scherer, West, Porter, Fuente, Norvell.

(12-06-2017 03:49 PM)Tigx Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 03:19 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 01:18 PM)daniel2023 Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 12:41 PM)Tiger5 Wrote:  my 2 cents

The Arkansas squad returning was subpar, they were playing walk-ons on the O-Line. It was going to be a tough rebuild project.

Most logical explanation...

AR unwilling to pay the needed premium to motivate a successful coach like Norvell, given it's had 7 coaches in the last 25 yrs., is a perennial 4th place SEC west finisher & has never won the SEC

Atlanta, don't get this continued focus on '7 coaches in last 25 years' you keep quoting. First, it's not 7. And kind of a meaningless metric. Almost all schools have had 5 or 6 full-time coaches in the last 25 seasons.

And it's really 5 coaches - Ford, Nutt, Petrino, John L. Smith, Bielma. If you are counting guys who coach the bowl games after coaches leave, that's a stretch, IMO.

Last 25 seasons, Alabama has had 5 full-time - Stallings, Dubose, Franchione, Shula, Saban (not including Kines who coached a bowl, and Price who never coached a game).

Memphis has had 6 - Stobart, Scherer, West, Porter, Fuente, Norvell.

AR has been promoting themselves as a destination job. I say no, it's a virtual guarantee to be fired 4-5 yrs. And it actually it is 7 coaches + 2 interims over the last 25 yrs.... Crowe, Kines (3-6-1 as interim), Ford, Nutt, Herring - interim, Petrino, Smith, Bielema & now Morris.

Alabama, really... Saban has now been there 10 yrs. M Richt was at UGA 14 yrs, Both Spurrier & Meyer could have been at UF as long as they wanted. These are the destination jobs, the primo SEC jobs. And Memphis as a G5 is apples & oranges compared to supposed destination jobs - or that should be the distinction. We both know that MN can win 8-9 games a yr at Memphis & retire at Memphis. And AR is not a destination job - or it hasn't been over the last 25+ yrs. - and is much more insecure because even very good coaches have been unable to sustain even 7 win seasons.

Couldnt get on the Gus bus so now they are on the Morris Taurus.

lmao

(12-06-2017 04:37 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 03:49 PM)Tigx Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 03:19 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 01:18 PM)daniel2023 Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 12:41 PM)Tiger5 Wrote:  my 2 cents

The Arkansas squad returning was subpar, they were playing walk-ons on the O-Line. It was going to be a tough rebuild project.

Most logical explanation...

AR unwilling to pay the needed premium to motivate a successful coach like Norvell, given it's had 7 coaches in the last 25 yrs., is a perennial 4th place SEC west finisher & has never won the SEC

Atlanta, don't get this continued focus on '7 coaches in last 25 years' you keep quoting. First, it's not 7. And kind of a meaningless metric. Almost all schools have had 5 or 6 full-time coaches in the last 25 seasons.

And it's really 5 coaches - Ford, Nutt, Petrino, John L. Smith, Bielma. If you are counting guys who coach the bowl games after coaches leave, that's a stretch, IMO.

Last 25 seasons, Alabama has had 5 full-time - Stallings, Dubose, Franchione, Shula, Saban (not including Kines who coached a bowl, and Price who never coached a game).

Memphis has had 6 - Stobart, Scherer, West, Porter, Fuente, Norvell.

AR has been promoting themselves as a destination job. I say no, it's a virtual guarantee to be fired 4-5 yrs. And it actually it is 7 coaches + 2 interims over the last 25 yrs.... Crowe, Kines (3-6-1 as interim), Ford, Nutt, Herring - interim, Petrino, Smith, Bielema & now Morris.

Come on Atlanta, you can't make up you own math.

Last 25 years does not include Chad Morris - last implies the past, not the future. And Kines was more than 25 seasons ago.

Herring? Are you serious? He coached 1 game after Nutt resigned. If you want to start counting 1 bowl game coaches, then Darrel Dickey was once the head coach of our Memphis Tigers.

Correct # of Arkansas head coaches for the last 25 seasons is 5 - Ford, Nutt, Petrino, John L. Smith, Bielma - which is probably less than the normal amount.

(12-06-2017 04:49 PM)Tigx Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 04:37 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 03:49 PM)Tigx Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 03:19 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 01:18 PM)daniel2023 Wrote:  Most logical explanation...

AR unwilling to pay the needed premium to motivate a successful coach like Norvell, given it's had 7 coaches in the last 25 yrs., is a perennial 4th place SEC west finisher & has never won the SEC

Atlanta, don't get this continued focus on '7 coaches in last 25 years' you keep quoting. First, it's not 7. And kind of a meaningless metric. Almost all schools have had 5 or 6 full-time coaches in the last 25 seasons.

And it's really 5 coaches - Ford, Nutt, Petrino, John L. Smith, Bielma. If you are counting guys who coach the bowl games after coaches leave, that's a stretch, IMO.

Last 25 seasons, Alabama has had 5 full-time - Stallings, Dubose, Franchione, Shula, Saban (not including Kines who coached a bowl, and Price who never coached a game).

Memphis has had 6 - Stobart, Scherer, West, Porter, Fuente, Norvell.

AR has been promoting themselves as a destination job. I say no, it's a virtual guarantee to be fired 4-5 yrs. And it actually it is 7 coaches + 2 interims over the last 25 yrs.... Crowe, Kines (3-6-1 as interim), Ford, Nutt, Herring - interim, Petrino, Smith, Bielema & now Morris.

Come on Atlanta, you can't make up you own math.

Last 25 years does not include Chad Morris - last implies the past, not the future. And Kines was more than 25 seasons ago.

Herring? Are you serious? He coached 1 game after Nutt resigned. If you want to start counting 1 bowl game coaches, then Darrel Dickey was once the head coach of our Memphis Tigers.

Correct # of Arkansas head coaches for the last 25 seasons is 5 - Ford, Nutt, Petrino, John L. Smith, Bielma - which is probably less than the normal amount.

USC is a destination job and they've had 6 coaches in the last 25 seasons:

Robinson/Hackett/Carroll/Kiffin/Sarkisian/Helton

Texas is a destination job and they've had 4:

Mackovic, Brown, Strong and Hermann.

Oklahoma is a destination job and they've had 5

Gibbs/Schnellenberger/Blake/Stoops/Riley

Ohio State has only had 3:

Cooper/Tressell/Meyer

Michigan has had 5

Moeller/Carr/Rodriguez/Hoke/Harbaugh

Florida has had 5

Spurrier/Zook/Meyer/Muschamp/Mcelwain

So Arkansas is actually pretty close in terms of stability.

(12-06-2017 01:14 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Dear Arkansas,

It's not you, it's me.

Signed,
Every coach not named Chad Morris

Think about it. They couldn't hire a coach that has scored about 150 points on them in the last three years so they hired a coach we scored 180 points on in the last 3 years.

I know Arkansas grads. Smart, successful people. Their athletics department may be the dumbest frickers on earth.

THEY COULD GET UTKs COACH OR MAKE AN EVEN TRADE .

(12-06-2017 05:10 PM)ddramone Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 04:49 PM)Tigx Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 04:37 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 03:49 PM)Tigx Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 03:19 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  AR unwilling to pay the needed premium to motivate a successful coach like Norvell, given it's had 7 coaches in the last 25 yrs., is a perennial 4th place SEC west finisher & has never won the SEC

Atlanta, don't get this continued focus on '7 coaches in last 25 years' you keep quoting. First, it's not 7. And kind of a meaningless metric. Almost all schools have had 5 or 6 full-time coaches in the last 25 seasons.

And it's really 5 coaches - Ford, Nutt, Petrino, John L. Smith, Bielma. If you are counting guys who coach the bowl games after coaches leave, that's a stretch, IMO.

Last 25 seasons, Alabama has had 5 full-time - Stallings, Dubose, Franchione, Shula, Saban (not including Kines who coached a bowl, and Price who never coached a game).

Memphis has had 6 - Stobart, Scherer, West, Porter, Fuente, Norvell.

AR has been promoting themselves as a destination job. I say no, it's a virtual guarantee to be fired 4-5 yrs. And it actually it is 7 coaches + 2 interims over the last 25 yrs.... Crowe, Kines (3-6-1 as interim), Ford, Nutt, Herring - interim, Petrino, Smith, Bielema & now Morris.

Come on Atlanta, you can't make up you own math.

Last 25 years does not include Chad Morris - last implies the past, not the future. And Kines was more than 25 seasons ago.

Herring? Are you serious? He coached 1 game after Nutt resigned. If you want to start counting 1 bowl game coaches, then Darrel Dickey was once the head coach of our Memphis Tigers.

Correct # of Arkansas head coaches for the last 25 seasons is 5 - Ford, Nutt, Petrino, John L. Smith, Bielma - which is probably less than the normal amount.

USC is a destination job and they've had 6 coaches in the last 25 seasons:

Robinson/Hackett/Carroll/Kiffin/Sarkisian/Helton

Texas is a destination job and they've had 4:

Mackovic, Brown, Strong and Hermann.

Oklahoma is a destination job and they've had 5

Gibbs/Schnellenberger/Blake/Stoops/Riley

Ohio State has only had 3:

Cooper/Tressell/Meyer

Michigan has had 5

Moeller/Carr/Rodriguez/Hoke/Harbaugh

Florida has had 5

Spurrier/Zook/Meyer/Muschamp/Mcelwain

So Arkansas is actually pretty close in terms of stability.

Looks like we've found the Hog apologists on the Memphis board. All of the AR coaches I noted were fired. Quite different than your list where Spurrier, Meyer, Schnellenberger, Stoops all could have coached as long as they wanted. My idea of a destination job is where there is a reasonable ability to meet the expectations of the program. AR doesn't meet that criteria IMO, because they have fired every coach they have employed during that time, they play for 4th best in the SEC west most yrs & have NEVER won an SEC championship.