Nice deflection, since that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.

You highly educated LSU guys (I'm feeling nice this morning) want to know how ANYONE would want to avoid Miles. I answered. Miles at OSU = 57% winning percentage. Miles at LSU = 81%.

Louisiana = HIGHEST per capita NFL athletes of any state

He's a good coach, but he wouldn't get the recruits needed to be great at Arkansas. We need a great X's and O's coach, a great recruiter (not one that can just call up the top 25 guys in his state most years and expect commitments - especially since Arkansas doesn't even PRODUCE half of that in terms of SEC athletes), and a good game day coach.

If he ain't all of those things, why would Arkansas fans be happy? Miles isn't all of those things. Gary Patterson, for instance, is someone that would fill all of those voids. Miles is a good fit for LSU, but a terrible fit for Arkansas. He'd be a good fit for Alabama, Texas, Florida, Ohio State, Michigan, etc. But I just don't think he could raise a program above it's relative recruiting position like Petrino did with his game planning and execution.

We could do worse, sure. But until a long list of innovative coaches turned us down, I would not be happy with a guy who won 57% of his games at Arkansas, oops Okie State, the last time he was there.

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Posted by drexyl

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Posted on 11/29/12 at 9:56 am to ocelot4ark

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Nice deflection, since that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.

not a deflection; your state sucks talent wise by your own words. I'm agreeing with you. You haven't won an SEC title because of that, you need a pink unicorn coach that is a great at everything to make you relevant and i think the odds of you getting that coach to come to Arkansas are slim.

gotta be rough knowing you literally have no shot at winning anything ever.

Okie State BTW was pretty terrible before Miles got the job and he built them into relevancy before taking the LSU job. To compare Okie State then to Arkansas now is a diservice to Arkansas. You are a middle of the road SEC team but you don't suck so that comparison of win percentages is probably not accurate. Unless you're right and you do suck as bad as Okie State did when Miles took over..... let me know if you think so.

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Posted by Debaser

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Posted on 11/29/12 at 10:08 am to ocelot4ark

I went to Fayetteville for the first time this year. I know it was Thanksgiving weekend, but that was the least loud, rowdy stadium I have ever seen/heard. The stadium was nice, but that's about the only nice thing on campus. The campus in Fayetteville is the least attractive SEC campus I have visited.

The only reason Arkansas is even a second tier SEC school in football is the money, so Arkansas is a perfect fit for a slimey frick like Petrino or his ilk.

Sorry, Arkansas - you really do suck at being a cool SEC football venue. I could understand you not wanting Miles and LSU not wanting Miles (he does make some questionable game calls), but the ONLY thing you have going for you is deep pockets.

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