re: OFFICIAL Arkansas Coaching Search Thread

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What makes you think he will hire a great coach this time?

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Jeff Long has grown, he's learned, and he's realized just what can be accomplished at the U. of A.

He now knows that Doe's Hoes are getting commits and to leave that catfish behind.

Arkansas is way too good of a program to hire an unproven guy who's, what, 30? Not no, but hell no. Dowell needs at least 5 years of head coaching experience before he gets considered for a big job.

Dowell is probably 10 years away at least. Who knows what will happen by then.

I have to admit that my faith in Long isn't enormous based on the reports we heard during our last coaching search.

I'm sure a lot of crap gets leaked to the media and to message boards, but Jim Grobe and Tommy Bowden weren't exactly exciting to me. Had we not gotten Petrino, I would have been happier getting Will Muschamp, but that's neither here nor there.

As for Anderson, I felt that Long pretty much had his decision made for him by the fans (I'm sure he has a decent pulse on what the fans want), it was just a matter of him ponying up the resources, for which I give him credit for.

Basically, he did get Bobby Petrino and Mike Anderson, for which he deserves credit, but the circumstances surrounding those hires leave something to be desired.

I did think the Tyrone Nix thing was bullshite, but Grobe actually agreed to the job (at least it seemed that way according to the national sports media since ESPN, CBS, etc. reported it. Perhaps my memory is broken) and then backed off later.

I don't know what to think about Bowden, mainly because it just kind of seemed like we were used in order to get a raise for Bowden from Clemson.

There are some things that get reported that are total crap, and other things that are true. It certainly seemed like the Grobe thing had more legs than the Tyrone Nix thing.

Grobe was a smokescreen.

Out of the current LeGit tier, which one do you guys think is officially removed from consideration first?

Art Briles
James Franklin
Pat Fitzgerald
Chris Petersen
John L. Smith
Charlie Strong

Chris Petersen

Chris Petersen.

He's shown no inclination to leave from Boise. Guy is obviously not an idiot. He's seen the track record of the guys who left Boise and how they've fared elsewhere. Nutt...Hawkins...etc. If he falls flat on his face at a big name school, no one is going to really remember his tenure at Boise. I think Petersen is aware of that and doesn't want to take the risk.

And honestly I don't think it's necessarily about an ability to coach (Nutt being excluded), but rather about connections and re-establishing recruiting relationships etc.

Chris Petersen and Art Briles aren't leaving for Arkansas.

NCAA coaches

realistic tier

Skip Holtz
Jim Heacock
James Franklin
Steve Sarkisian

WTF Jeff tier

Garrick McGee
Gus Malzahn
JLS
Paul Rhoads

idk anything about nfl coaches.