(11-14-2019 06:45 PM)gohogs14 Wrote:  

(11-14-2019 03:04 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(11-14-2019 02:54 PM)gohogs14 Wrote:  

(11-14-2019 12:31 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  AR IS a dumpster fire, despite all of the hog protestations. They been in a 15yr+ decline - and over the next decade they will not compete with Bama, Auburn, LSU or even aTm. That puts them playing for 5th place in the SEC West.

No one expects Arkansas to beat Alabama, LSU or Auburn every year (though we do beat LSU and Auburn every so often and are competitive with A&M as well). At this point, all a new coach would have to do is win all of the OOC games and show any life at all. It's not a very high bar.

You say we're in a 15 year decline but in the last 15 years we've won 10+ games three times, been to a Sugar Bowl, and won the SEC West. Nutt and Petrino combined to only have a losing record 3 times in 14 years. People assume Bielema and Morris being bad coaches makes this job Vanderbilt when history says you can be average-above average most years here with some really good years mixed in. There are a ton of teams we recruit better than that are better than us and there's really nothing else you can explain away for that other than bad coaching.

(11-14-2019 02:34 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  Well he turned down their interview in 2017, so be prepared to be shocked again.

Never heard he was asked to interview but I'll take your word for it. I wouldn't be shocked at all if he stayed but we didn't have an AD in place during the last coaching search which is probably why we went with a guy who had an overall losing record at SMU. Morris was basically a Jerry Jones hire.

Even in your "golden years" from 1998-2011 (14 seasons) you only had a winning record in SEC play FIVE TIMES. Averaged 4.2 wins a year

So we average 4 SEC wins a year? That means all a decent coach has to do is win the 4 OOC games and the bowl to finish 9-4. We aren’t even close to that right now, that’s the point.

Seems pretty obvious to me. Good coaches win here, bad coaches don’t, just like most of college football. I guess that means every SEC team outside of Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Georgia and Florida is a **** job.

No, it means in your own "selected" years of PEAK performance you were essentially .500 in conference play--meaning your best years generally rendered you incapable of challenging for a division title.

And, sure, if you schedule four patsies a year to pad your mediocre conference performance, that gets old quickly to the fanbase.