My guess on what will happen at Arkansas

Since the Garden of Eden, the Arkansas jobs in football and men's basketball have always been about politics. Not just the hire, but the men who supported the hire.

The egos.

This will be no different. It won't be "a G-five guy, or a long-term assistant or 'a defensive mind' or 'an offensive mind' or a 'recruiting guru.'" Sumrall could be the outlier, but we won't be able to get him.

Any other stupid G-five hire would mean a fanbase mutiny.

Anyway, when Jeff Long replaced Frank Broyles as AD, the powers that be declared war on Jeff Long from day one because "he's not an Arkansas guy." Same thing with Hunter. Long and Hunter both pushed back on the egotistic crybabies (and I don't blame them), and the war escalated until it was over.


So it will be "an Arkansas guy at AD" to formulate the future of the football program.

Long story short, Gus Malzahn has been behind the scenes on all our searches since he left Arkansas State, and it's the same thing now. So Gus is going to offer (or has offered) that he wants the football job to "get things in order" and beyond that, he wants something like a AD In Waiting position.

So the politicos, who love Gus, will see that "We can get Gus ready to be AD while he gets things headed in the right direction in football, and he takes over the AD job in a year, or two, or three. And when he does, he brings in Lashlee for football."


I have zero proof of any of that, and yet I guarantee that's what's being discussed. Guarantee it.