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That's not even being desperate, that's just the front street admission that an open Arkansas football job is nothing but a plaything and political theater for out of touch boosters.To disrespect the Arkansas fan base that boldly this many times is class action lawsuit worthy.

How many of those 41 are just Taylen? I'm guessing over 12.

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We basically have moved the ball at will except for when Taylen decides to give them the ball

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Turns out not choking is part of it. Maybe don't turn the ball over on the first possession at the 24 and we could've kicked the FG and ended up winning this thing.

I'm noticing that the Petrino haters are going to be against him no matter what happens aside from an undefeated season from the point of him taking over, and the Petrino lovers are going to excuse any and every shortcoming.

What exactly IS this guy's fault? We scored 15 offensive points at home. Every game he's lost since taking over has been a one-score loss outside of Auburn, which was one of the top two complaints we had against Pittman. The defense - under Petrino's hand, to his earned credit - had their best game of the year against P4 competition.

Since taking over, BP's vaunted offense lost the turnover battle to Tennessee, Auburn, and LSU by three turnovers in each game. Three of the five games.That isn't normal and if he isn't going to fix it or make an appropriate change, he should at least face some consensus backlash. The defense's performance matters and it does exonerate him of a few things, but offense is supposed to be his bread-and-butter and we keep turning the ball over more often than our opponent - sometimes significantly more often. Does the defense get all the blame when our drive somehow gets flipped to the opponent's drive?

On the plus side, since the season has looked virtually identical to when Pittman was in charge, I think the conspiracy theorists can lay to rest the hypothesis that Petrino was somehow sabotaging him to wrest control. Turns out we just suck that much and BP was never not trying his hardest.

You're kind of selling me on Petrino 2.0, but something tells me your scenario won't come to pass because it's too forward thinking.

If we're just hiring Bobby back and not changing a thing we've been doing and treating it like we're in 2012 again, count me out. A 2020s approach to him might just work.

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So, we are in stead going to hire and up and comer who will sell tix for 1 season, show suckage, and be gone.

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We don't even do this much right. This would be failing in a way that at least made sense. Our last two hires didn't make any sense in any capacity. If we took our chances on a Sumrall or Chadwell and struck out, I could live with that. The fricking embarrassment Pitt and Morris brought is untenable.

If Cal ends up flopping in basketball, I won't be the least bit ashamed. Because we went out there and showed we gave half a shite and we were ready to not waste the momentum the Muss years brought us. Our football hires and the flawed logic they were made on reek of every personality trait that runs contrary to competitive sports.

James Franklin got fired for no real publicly discernible reason. I don't know who the frick Penn State thinks they are these days, but they can sit their asses down with us and Nebraska and do some reflecting. His results were on par with Joe Paterno. The guy who won their last NC 40 years ago and hadn't won the NC in 25 years before he retired and croaked.

Personally, I don't care if a hire is a splash. Wins are more exciting than a good press conference.

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I'd rather spend money on NIL than a meh hire

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Honestly, I respect this answer. It's better than the "wHo We GeT?!" bullshite. The only reason I'm not in the same boat is because we have an administration I don't believe is capable of going whole hog all-in on this and not fricking it to oblivion and back.

I don't agree with the "meh" part. If you think it's meh, that's only because it doesn't excite you. That "meh" hire is currently 6–3 at a P4 program, just upset #10 Miami, went 11–3 and to the playoffs last year, and 11–3 the year before that. That's just objectively not "meh." Does it mean he'll succeed here? No. That's just how it goes. But thanks for having a real opinion at least, it's really a good idea in theory. Especially considering Bobby's achilles heel was his recruiting. Well, that and his offenses being so good that he couldn't keep his defense off the field.

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Come on. Go on the record with who you think should be our next coach.

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Rhett Lashlee
Jon Sumrall
Jamey Chadwell

In that order, but Chadwell is a distant third.

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To insinuate that Morris was somehow a celebrated hire in 2018 is laughable. He was not "the next big thing". Norvell would have done a fine job (at least better than the last 7 years) and Silverfield would do a fine job as well in this cycle.

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I think it's fair to say he was while he was orchestrating the offensive rise at Clemson. But then Clemson takes the next step and wins two natties after he leaves, and SMU exposes him as an also-ran.

So naturally we hire him to predictable results.

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would you rather stick with BP knowing what you’re getting to an extent or go with a high-risk, high-reward option

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Neither. Bob Chesney is high risk/unknown reward because he's doing well at JMU, but he's maintaining what Curt Cignetti built. I'd say high risk/high reward would be Jamey Chadwell. He built Coastal Carolina, went 13–1 at Liberty, and he's declined the past two years. Maybe Liberty isn't the place for him, or maybe he'd be our Mike Norvell. Sam Pittman was high risk/low reward. Chad Morris was high risk/low reward. We need to stop making these hires and just hire people who're winning somewhere - and then avoid ungodly buyouts and extensions for barely winning seasons, and cut them loose when it's appropriate to do so.

I'd seriously rather have Rhett Lashlee than Bobby Petrino. Yeah, he's 5–3 at SMU this year. But SMU isn't exactly an easy place to win at these days, they're a team with G5 resources that joined a P4 conference only last year. He went 11–3 the previous two years and 7–6 his first year. I know this year is a disappointment for them because he just went to the playoffs, but he's honestly killing it at SMU. He's having more success than Sonny Dykes did at SMU, and TCU hired Dykes and went to the National Championship. Lashlee is as low risk as we can reasonably expect, and a high reward.