Google state populations and Arkansas has a low percentage. In years past you guys made a living off Texas recruits but that has gotten incredibly harder to do.Agree with 1 and 3 but, while 2 is true, we still recruit around the same or better than South Carolina, Ole Miss (when Freeze isn't cheating), Mississippi State, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. There isn't a whole lot of difference in recruiting after you get past the top 6-7 teams in the SEC. The crazy thing is the entire division basically recruits in the top 25 on average. Yet here we are getting blown out by WKU and losing to San Jose State
Read this morning where some of the BOT is pushing back on Kiffin and want a morality clause in his contract because some are worried about him dating students we can never just let the AD do his job I guess.
Google state populations and Arkansas has a low percentage. In years past you guys made a living off Texas recruits but that has gotten incredibly harder to do.
It’s tough when you don’t have the state produced talent pool.
Auburn makes their living off of Florida and Georgia and have been doing so for years and there are pipelines.
In the SEC Arkansas and Kentucky have the biggest challenges in geographic recruiting. It’s just fact and it does matter.
If that happens you guys should hire Gus.Hey Arky fans,
Any legitimacy to you guys looking at Fuente?
Some people on the VT sites seem to think so but everything I can find looks like pure speculation. Speculation as in some fans think hiring him and Barry Odom (his DC at Memphis) would be good, not speculation from actual insiders
If that happens you guys should hire Gus.
Uh....pre-season favorites for what exactly?.............Growing pains, I guess. Next year, ISU should be one of the pre-season favorites with all of the young offensive skill players returning and another year of Campbell-ism. Wish we..............
Only reason would be money. How much is he making at Iowa State?Why is Christ’s name would Campbell leave Iowa state for fucking Arkansas?
To win the Big Xii. They were picked 3rd this year and came very, very close to making the Big Xii Championship Game. Finished Tied for 3rd and scared the hell out of #1 and #2! They will be better next year.Uh....pre-season favorites for what exactly?
Arkansas Could be Closing in on Coaching Hire
Not a done deal yet but honestly it makes sense. He's gonna take the first P5 shot he gets and this is as good as they can expect.
Evidently our AD has been wanting Kiffin for weeks but Jerry Jones and our BOT wanted to throw $7 million per year at Matt Campbell first and he had until tomorrow to decide and turned it down today so we quickly moved on Kiffin. Yurachek (the AD) came close to hiring Kiffin when he was at Houston. Rumor is the DC would be Randy Shannon. Also heard Chizik mentioned but who knows.
Sounds like he could bring a solid staff with him. He could be a disaster but we need some excitement right now. Just hoping all of the other recent openings don’t change anything.
You point out the people thinking or writing this.To win the Big Xii. They were picked 3rd this year and came very, very close to making the Big Xii Championship Game. Finished Tied for 3rd and scared the hell out of #1 and #2! They will be better next year.
Check out some of the other teams in the Big 12. The whole conference had A LOT of close games. A few breaks and 8-4 teams could have been 4-8 and vice versa. (Texas Tech had four conference losses of less than 3 points and they finished next to last at 2-7. They win 1/2 of those and they are bowl eligible. )Yeah, at the end of the day all that matters is wins and losses. Y’all would kick our ass for sure. Just glancing at your schedule the other day you have more close losses than I think I could handle in a season.
Happy to see La’Michael Pettway finally receive some good coaching too.
Conference play was more "meat grindier" than usual this year, that's for sure.Check out some of the other teams in the Big 12. The whole conference had A LOT of close games. A few breaks and 8-4 teams could have been 4-8 and vice versa. (Texas Tech had four conference losses of less than 3 points and they finished next to last at 2-7. They win 1/2 of those and they are bowl eligible. )
While it might not have any "elite" teams, the whole damn conference was pretty close. Heard some talking heads on XM talking about it so I looked it up. 23 games were decided by 7 points or less. 13 of those 23 by less than 3 points. Only a handful of lopsided scores. Both CCG reps OU and Baylor got by with wimming some of those close ones. Teams 3-8 were pretty close IMO.
Yeah, while their records may not reflect it, even Tech and West Virginia weren't easy outs.Conference play was more "meat grindier" than usual this year, that's for sure.
I fully expect the B12 as a whole to exceed expectations this bowl season as long as the matchups aren't too fucky.
Yeah, while their records may not reflect it, even Tech and West Virginia weren't easy outs.
I am......late to the party. Not a done deal but mutual interest. Potential for Kendal Bryiles as OC, Randy Shannon as DC. I think it’s his to turn down@WPS You reading any of this?