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re: Coaching Search Thread

Posted by Feral on 12/9/25 at 8:41 am to
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The one area on the team I'd feel good about talent-wise was the O-line. The rest needs to be revamped.


I’m supportive of the Silverfield hire, but I’m not happy with his moves at OL coach and not retaining Mateos.

Offensive line was arguably the strength of the team last year.

re: Coaching Search Thread

Posted by Feral on 12/4/25 at 4:58 pm to
Mars has been absolutely cooking him this week.

I literally lol’d at his tweet calling Duckman an “incurable liar.”

re: A Painful Stat Sheet

Posted by Feral on 12/3/25 at 2:19 pm to
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mark my words, We will have a top 10 defense the day our offense falls off of a cliff....

Why? Cause we are Arkansas.


It happened in 2014.

Had a top 10 defense in Robb Smith’s first year (the Spaight, Flowers, Philon triangle) and still finished 6-6 because our offense was the drizzle shits.

Then the very next year our offense was one of the best in program history but of course our D was awful.

re: Coaching Search Thread

Posted by Feral on 12/3/25 at 9:11 am to
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His past history does not warrant me buying anything yet, I still think we have the second coming of Chad


Insane take.

Chad had been a HC for 3 years and only won 38% of his games at SMU.

Like him or not, Silverfield has double the HC experience, won an average of nearly 9 games a year, and had a couple of 10 win seasons, and is 2-1 against SEC teams.

He may or may not work out, but saying he’ll be a redux of the worst coach in SEC history is crazy to me.
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Trey Schaap stands by his information


Listening him talk about it Monday on the Buzz, it sounded like journalistic malpractice 101 mixed with misinformation.

Basically he was hearing similar (but different) things from different sources and never verified anything.

If Silverfield really was recruiting kids the last few weeks, then it was either a smokescreen or he just latched onto bullshite that you can find on any message board.
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F#%k Frank


Frank didn’t fire Petrino or hire Bert, Chad, or Sam. He didn’t put us a decade behind in NIL.

We never had a 10 loss season in his life. We’ve had 3 in 8 years now.

Frank made us nationally competitive in 3 other sports besides football. We’re one of the premier baseball programs in the country, and we quite literally didn’t even have a functioning baseball team when he assumed the AD job.

When Frank stepped down as AD, we were a season removed from an SECCG appearance and in a position where we were an attractive enough job to hire the sitting HC of the Atlanta Falcons. Just 12 years later we had to hire a career OL coach who was actively making retirement plans because quite literally no one wanted our job.

We’ve had 2 bad AD’s in succession who’ve made 4 terrible football coaching hires in a row (JLS, Bert, Chad, and Sam).

Frank can be blamed for a lot, but the current state of our football program isn’t one of them.

I’ve never been much of a “we need an Arkansas guy” person, but I’m 100% there now when it comes to hiring an AD. We’ve hired two outsiders in a row who’ve regionalized our program and completely lost connection with boosters and the pulse of our fan base.
Probably talking about him being the #1 DE/edge in Oklahoma.

Rivals has him as the #9 player in the state.

re: Enough.

Posted by Feral on 12/1/25 at 6:04 am to
Reposting what I wrote on another board:

I'm just gonna put this out there.

I'm hardly a sunshine pumper (I was one of the first posters out on Yurachek years ago), but I actually find the negativity around the Silverfield hire perplexing.

He has a pretty good track record with a good sample size in arguably the best non-P4 conference in college football in a program in our backyard. Is he the second coming of Urban Meyer? No. Is he Chad Morris 2.0? Almost assuredly not.

Our last 2 hires were a coach with a losing record at SMU and a career OL coach actively making retirement plans, but we're rioting in the streets because we hired a guy who won 8-10 games a year at Memphis?

Let's let the press conference and some staff hires play out and see what type of program he wants to run before we preemptively declare this the worst hire ever.

Lastly, there's no such thing as a home run hire. Every hire is a complete unknown, good or bad. Brian Kelly and Jimbo Fisher were sure fire, home run hires. Tom Herman was a 100% cant miss guy coming out of Houston. Conversely, Tennessee fans were hardly booking tickets for the CFP when Heupel was hired (record declined every year at UCF), A&M fans weren't exactly celebrating in the streets about hiring Elko, and no one threw roses at Indiana for hiring Cignetti.
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White Christmas


Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’ve never really cared for White Christmas.

Rosemary Clooney’s character is downright unlikable, and the misunderstanding between her and Bing Crosby’s character is Hallmark-level dumb.

In terms of Bing Crosby Christmas movies, I prefer Holiday Inn.
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Fickell has been an unmitigated disaster in every aspect.


This legit surprised me.

Fickell was the next sure fire coaching hire. He turned Cincy into a power and took them to the CFP. His teams were physical and played hard and above their talent level.

I thought he’d be great at Wisconsin. He’s gotten worse every year in Madison, and they’re legitimately one of the worst teams in the country this season. It’s beyond comprehension.

He’s basically Tom Herman 2.0, but Herman actually wasn’t bad at Texas.

re: Coaching Search Thread

Posted by Feral on 9/30/25 at 11:32 am to
While turnover margin can vary from year to year, fumbles are a direct reflection of how hard you practice.

If you practice lightly and go no contact often, you’re going to have discipline and fumbling issues on game day.

It always seemed to be pinned on one player or another, whether Trelon Smith or Rocket or Dubinion, but Pittman was the one constant.
Sumrall would be a tremendous hire.

Young, knows the SEC, has won at a high clip at multiple schools, and balances a great defensive background with an innovative offense.

But of course because we’re Arkansas it must assuredly won’t happen.
I literally almost used the Pikachu face reference in my post :lol:

Perfect encapsulation of the defensive players’ absurd (and misplaced) dismay at their coaches getting let go.
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Players quit it seemed. Looking over the twitters this morning, lots of players expressing displease at TWILL getting canned. May have walkons playing defense against Tennessee


Always love it when players who didn’t piss a drop for their coach in terms of effort then get their jimmies rustled when said coach is fired.

Like…you had a part in this.
Needed to happen.

Our defensive issues aren’t just due to talent. There are glaring issues with coaching and scheme. Players playing out of position, play calls late coming in, bad angles, bad coverage schemes, ill-timed blitzes, and some of the worst tackling I’ve ever seen (which, along with the fumble issues, tells me we’re not practicing hard or hitting in practice).
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We are so dumb. Could have gotten rid of him last year and been the only SEC job open but instead will fire him halfway through the season this year when there’s going to be multiple SEC jobs open. Great job team.


The Arkansas way.

Be a day late and a dollar short on everything, and always make the wrong decision.
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But right now it’s a fundamentally unserious program


Truth
In addition to Sam, fire our weak, feckless AD while we’re at it.

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I think it’s more important to fire HY than it is Sam at this point. Both have to go but the next hire cannot be given to HY and it’s imperative someone with an innovative sense of NIL management is hired.


This.

Yurachek cannot be allowed to make the next football hire.

Get rid of Yurachek, move quickly to replace him and give the AD a few weeks to get their bearings and identify some candidates.
Somewhere between 3-9 and 7-5. Anything outside of that would legitimately surprise me.

Receivers and TEs are a complete unknown, and backend of the defense looks shaky. Plus we have an insane schedule.

I think we end up 4-8 or 5-7. There’s a very real chance we go 1-7 after the Memphis game.