SILENT HOGS

by Orson on Dec 10, 2007 12:18 PM EST

Arkansas' fired Houston Nutt, and then...leapt into oblivion. While Michigan has become the bumptious drama of choice this year, do not turn a deaf ear to Arkansas: the sound you hear is nothing happening, or at least nothing outside of the hiring of a search firm to find coaches now that Tommy Tuberville, Jim Grobe, and Butch Davis have all expressed equal parts disinterest and disdain for the job.

Why wouldn't you take the job? They ran a coach out of town by prying into his cell phone records (to be fair, public record,) making suggestions that he was having an affair (who cares if he was? It's not your genitals we're talking about here), and getting near-riotous over a team that won 19 games in the past two years and had a championship appearance. That screams job security to us.

The replacement question--and the rare quantity of foresight--could have been considered in advance here, but likely wasn't, or at least not considered fully enough. Georgia Tech dodged flak with a solid hire, as did Ole Miss, who hired Houston Nutt. Arkansas, however, may have started a gas fight before lighting up, especially now with Jim Grobe sitting tight at Wake for the moment. (There's a meth lab joke in here, but we're just too impatient to find it.)

See lack of planning, or:Gas fight!

If their last, worst case doesn't come through...who is next? No, in all seriousness, we're asking you. It's quiet over there right now. Ozark quiet.

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This has nothing at all to do with the Razor Backs, but why haven’t I heard any rumors about about Michigan talking to the coach of Appalachian State? That guy just brought his team to their third straight national title. He proved he is a better coach than Carr already earlier this year.

There is also a precedent here. Ever since tOSU brought in a guy from (The division formerly known as who gives a fuck they have a playoff), they have done exceedingly well at beating Michigan.

Oh, and since he is from a lower division, they could easily low ball him without the threat of being immediately turned down. This shit is win/win.

by Tebow_for_Heisman on Dec 10, 2007 12:31 PM EST reply actions

The two guys that are being targeted right now are Will Muschamp and the likely waste of time and effort that is Bobby Petrino.

Personally, I want to see Boom Motherfucker hired as soon as possible.

by Jerkwheat on Dec 10, 2007 12:33 PM EST reply actions

Now, that he’s no longer in running for the GT job, I will air my sneaking suspicion that Will Muschamp is really Coach McGurk from Home Movies.

Exhibit A:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn8Bk_NjRTo

by Techie on Dec 10, 2007 12:40 PM EST reply actions

If there’s anything we can learn from this horrible tragedy, it’s that a male model’s life is a precious precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, doesn’t mean that we too can’t not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.

by rjsplow on Dec 10, 2007 12:49 PM EST reply actions

I wish someone here would talk about my genitals.

by Rival on Dec 10, 2007 12:53 PM EST reply actions

now, if you’ll excuse me, I have an after-funneral party to attend…

by Anon on Dec 10, 2007 1:01 PM EST reply actions

Tebow_for_Heisman:

While I presume you were being facetious, just in case you weren’t Appalachian State’s coach is 67 years old thereby making him too old. Now if Joe Pa were to retire, Coach Moore might be a candidate at PSU.

by maskedavenger on Dec 10, 2007 1:02 PM EST reply actions

yet another reason why the orgeron to arky makes sense…he doesn’t even know how to text message.

by gerry dorsey on Dec 10, 2007 1:14 PM EST reply actions

If HOT, HOT, HOT doesn’t block that field goal at the end, that coach would be remembered for one of the worst coaching decisions in college football history, when he didn’t let that clock run down and kick the winning FG with little or no time left.

by Brian O'Blivion on Dec 10, 2007 1:17 PM EST reply actions

Orson:

Do you really think that Arkansas “fired” Nutt? Wasn’t it the other way around- didn’t they offer a substantial raise for him to stay and he politely told them to get bent as he flew out the door to a school with, by all indications, a much tougher road to success?

I think that it’d look a lot worse for the school if it was really Nutt doing the quitting rather than the school doing the firing, because there really isn’t a good way to twist those events into anything but a very, very negative reflection on the school. Nice parting shot, Nutt~

by rjsplow on Dec 10, 2007 1:21 PM EST reply actions

It was a joke, but I believe even at 67 that guy would bring something fresh to that program. That is kinda sad if you ask me.

by Tebow_for_Heisman on Dec 10, 2007 1:23 PM EST reply actions

Arkansas should go after John L Smith if they’re in need of some misery / psycho shit.

by Seabass on Dec 10, 2007 1:23 PM EST reply actions

Has Michigan talked to the UC coach? I think he was successful at Central Michigan and had a decent 1st year at Cincy.

If Arkansas doesn’t get Boom MF’r! as their coach I have no clue who will end up there. How about the PR nightmare Micky Andrews from FSU? He likes to spit, so that should get him in the door.

by Bama93 on Dec 10, 2007 1:32 PM EST reply actions

You forgot Tommy Bowden in your list of coaches that expressed and then depressed interest in the Arky job.

Jerry Glanville is available isn’t he?

by Out of Conference on Dec 10, 2007 1:37 PM EST reply actions

Why not hire the Oklahoma State coach, I mean he is a man, he’s 40!

by Smitty on Dec 10, 2007 1:44 PM EST reply actions

What about the Wannstache? He didn’t have to go and beat West Viriginia, he’s from Pittsburgh, but he did it.

by Brian O'Blivion on Dec 10, 2007 1:58 PM EST reply actions

“we have made no formal offer to anyone” AD Jeff Long. most of these coaches are using Arkansas loud mouthed boosters and drunken alum to get extentsions and raises. Nutt got run out for screwing up the in state talent, letting middle aged crazy women send harrassing emails.and benching Mustain because he is too thin skinned to hear what an immature 17 year old said about him in a lame a** book. No coach is bigger than the program, Nutt got caught up in his own ego. Have fun in Ole Miss with Archie second guessing you, i guess it is better than an entire state.

by Lendale Terry on Dec 10, 2007 2:33 PM EST reply actions

News from Birmingham this afternoon: Shula to Arkansas.

OK, it was something I overheard two joggers discussing, but still …

by Kenny on Dec 10, 2007 2:50 PM EST reply actions

1. Nutt was pretty much fired two weeks before LSU. Everything else was a smokescreen.

2. Before hiring Neinas, the search was run by the AD and the Chancellor, that is why there was a lack of information.

3. Davis, Tubberville, Bowden, and Grobe were all approached. Davis said no, we don’t know if Tubbs said no or was just to expensive, Bowden “accepted” but was turned down by the Board, and Grobe changed his mind. Thus we are hiring Neinas.

4. The sky is not falling yet in Arkansas, but the cables are fraying.

5. Nutt had to go. I know it isn’t popular outside of WallyWorld, but that is just the way it is. He had become a distraction through a mixture of personality, on the field coaching, and the Springdale/Gus/transfer mixture of gasoline soaked in lighter fluid, and taped to a blow torch.

by Ulysses S. McGill on Dec 10, 2007 3:18 PM EST reply actions

Cristiano Ronaldo in a gas fight? Why?

by beast in 'bama on Dec 10, 2007 3:23 PM EST reply actions

13: The fact that Brian Kelly does not appear to be a candidate is a great source of anger among a sizable contingent of Michigan alums.

by Yinka Double Dare on Dec 10, 2007 3:44 PM EST reply actions

Arkansas has fired themselves into irrelevancy. It happens from time to time. Just ask Nebraska.

by Hossnfeffer on Dec 10, 2007 4:05 PM EST reply actions

That scene is as far as I got into Zoolander. Couldn’t watch anymore. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood, but that struck me as the dumbest scene ever in a Ben Stiller flick. And that’s saying something.

by crimson daddy on Dec 10, 2007 4:35 PM EST reply actions

No one makes me bleed my own blood!

— M.Mustain

by UgasTexan on Dec 10, 2007 4:57 PM EST reply actions

COACHOREADY TASTEPINNDACOACHDEM HAWGSWOOPIGSUWEE!!!

by southernmost on Dec 10, 2007 5:09 PM EST reply actions

Who has been leading the coaching search at Arkansas? The Reverend Jim Ignatowski?

When you fire your coach, especially midway through the season, you better make sure your short list is good to go. Who the hell did not know that Tubby had a $6 million buyout? I means besides the Reverend Jim Ignatowski?

Frank Broyles had this down to a science. Hell, the man once talked an ex-coordinator off a plane so that Broyles could name him the next head coach.

Newly hired AD, the Reverend Jim Ignatowski, needs to lay off the glue if he wants to last 3 years.

by bevo on Dec 10, 2007 9:36 PM EST reply actions