It's about time... 0-14 against SEC opponents during his two seasons here, and only 4-18 overall.

Unfortunately, he walks away with a $10 million buyout parachute. And Arkansas is now hunting for their fifth head coach in the past decade.

These last two coaches have taken a mid-tier SEC team with occasional moments of greatness, and turned them into a laughing stock that's easily trounced even by tiny outside conference "cakewalk" schools.

It'll be a long climb to get out of this hole that has been dug.

First: get rid of the large plastic hogs head headgear. How do you expect a good coach to take you serious when you are wearing those things and yelling Soooo-eeeee?

Best of luck in the coach hunt, my friend.

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I was there for the homecoming game against Miss State. What struck me was the lack of Texas players on their roster. Of 24 starters (including kicker and punter here) they had 6 kids from Texas. They had a bunch of kids from small towns in Arkansas and Louisiana. This is a recruiting issue. U of A is 4 hours from Dallas. Texas has some of the best highschool football talent in the country. You play in the SEC, the campus is beautiful and you offer Texas kids with half decent grades a break on out of state tuition which would lowest the impact on budgets for scholarships. How are they not getting a bigger share of the Texas football talent?

Yep. It's become sort of a Catch 22... Trouble recruiting, so they end up not being able to perform. Then because they can't perform, they have further trouble drawing recruits. Rinse and repeat. We've had a number of good recruits terminate their commitments throughout this season, thanks to the abysmal on-field performance.

I suspect Texas recruiting was likely one of the factors for hiring Chad Morris in the first place, with his ties to Texas from his previous years at SMU.

What's funny is that a massive percentage of overall students at the University of Arkansas are from Texas. Texans are like 30% of the student population, and projected to hit 50% sometime in the 2020s at the current rate. (Hell, I was one of them... Came from Texas to Arkansas to go to college, and liked the area so much I decided to stick around.)

We were there to tour campus and look at the baseball facilities with my oldest son. He loved the campus, the area and what's not to like about Razorback baseball. The sorority dominated pep rally at the Greek theater on campus didn't hurt his initial impressions of the school either

The campus and Northwest Arkansas in general are amazing, especially for us Texas boys. I fell in love with it on my first visit.

What's not to love, coming from Texas... There are mountains (well, large hills), trees, and four actual seasons.

All three of my children are from Texas and went to UofA.

Oldest iS still there, finishing her PHD in May, full PHD fellowship in Food Science, dual undergrad in Bio Chemistry and Food Science.

Middle daughter did BA and MA in Accounting 4 years while on a full scholarship, academic/athletic (national ranked swimmer).

Youngest, son, graduated with a CIS degree . 3 year Army ROTC scholarship and the university gave him 4 years room and board. Army 2nd Lt now.

Great school, all received awesome education, scholarships were/are great...so I will yell Wooo Piiggeee Sooiieee all day long.

About time. Graduated in 1971 and been a loyal fan a long time but it was getting embarrassing to watch them play. The team has a lot of talent, maybe they can find someone who can develop that talent and then not squander it on the field during a game.

We are certainly not missing him at SMU this year! Glad you all took him and our QB with him!

He was a questionable hire to begin with. A bad fist year followed with two 50/50 years at SMU isn't a track record that screams great hire. The SEC record hurts but getting crushed at home by teams scheduled as easy wins is inexcusable. Hopefully the next coach rights the ship.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
0-14 against SEC opponents during his two seasons here, and only 4-18 overall.

Unfortunately, he walks away with a $10 million buyout parachute.

PFFT! Suckers....

I could ruin a college football team for half that money. .

The Bobby Petrino curse continues....

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
It's about time... 0-14 against SEC opponents during his two seasons here, and only 4-18 overall.

Unfortunately, he walks away with a $10 million buyout parachute.

He was smart not to take the job without it - knowing that he was facing an uphill battle (recruiting, alumni, etc).

When an SEC team looses to San Jose St....

Didn't Arkansas just get done buying-out Brett Bielema? Now they're on the hook for Morris? Are the Walmart Walton's involved with these contracts?

This was definitely one of those throw the dice kind of hires to begin with. Arkansas was tired of the ground and pound offense and wanted to convert to the spread and thought they had their guy in Chad Morris. The problem is that recruiting for the past decade plus has been for the huge linemen and the skill players for the ground and pound. It takes multiple recruiting cycles to get the players you need to completely change your offense like that, but don't blame the Hog faithful for blowing this up now. Just not seeing any progress at all and you can't afford to wait 4-5 years in today's world.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Didn't Arkansas just get done buying-out Brett Bielema? Now they're on the hook for Morris? Are the Walmart Walton's involved with these contracts?

Yep. Yep. And probably Yep (among various other wealthy alumni).

Bielema is in some kind of law suit with the University because he's working as a scout for some pro team, which is a violation of his buyout contract, or some such crap.

While the 10 million buyout sounds high the figures I'm hearing is that they were losing over a million in ticket sales per game as well as losing fan's interest so the 10mil is probably cheap in the long run.

Not to mention many times boosters pay some or all of the buyouts.