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Arkansas hires Sam Pittman

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Poor man's Bret Belima
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Oh, Sam Pittman. Of course.
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https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/georgia-sam-pittman-reportedly-candidate-for-arkansas-head-coach-position/fugnVpioX6pEJv4cRZ7ZsM/

Georgia assistant HC. Offensive line coach and recruiter. Formerly at Arkansas.
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2012........................................................... Tennessee (Offensive Line)
2013-15......... Arkansas (Asst. HC, Offensive Line, Recruiting Coord.)
2016-2018....................................................... Georgia (Offensive Line)
2019................................................. Georgia (Associate HC / Off. Line)

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Reminds me of our Mike Sherman hire....but even less exciting.
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So excited for them!
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So they hired an oline coach as their head coach?

Has Pittman ever had any head coaching experience at this level?
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If he hires good oc and dc, they could be good. Otherwise, meh.
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NyAggie said:

So they hired an oline coach as their head coach?

Has Pittman ever had any head coaching experience at this level?
He's never been a coordinator or head coach according to this article:
https://www.4029tv.com/article/sam-pittman-hired-arkansas-football-coach/30162460
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I think he's considered to be a pretty good recruiter, but not sure how his X and O abilities are
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DatTallArchitect said:

NyAggie said:

So they hired an oline coach as their head coach?

Has Pittman ever had any head coaching experience at this level?
He's never been a coordinator or head coach according to this article:
https://www.4029tv.com/article/sam-pittman-hired-arkansas-football-coach/30162460


Actually he was a head coach at a community college back in the early 90's:

https://247sports.com/college/georgia/Article/Sam-Pittman-Arkansas-head-coach-Georgia-Bulldogs-140119998/

Just the kind of captain I would like navigating my 2 and 3 star recruits across choppy SEC West waters.
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Damn Arkansas. This feels like a terrible hire.

There are two approaches to hiring a coach:
1) Hire a young up and coming coach
2) Hire an experienced coach

Congratulations on missing both marks on probably the most important hire in the history of the program.
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Yay!!!
mgreen
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Trying to duplicate the LSU miracle coaching model hiring a line coach
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mgreen said:

Trying to duplicate the LSU miracle coaching model hiring a line coach
At least Orgeron had some HC experience. He had to have learned at a minimum what not to do at Ole Miss.
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Smile.....
counter subconscious espionage
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no currently employed high-profile coach is/was gonna take that job after they fired Morris in less than 2 years after he had to totally revamp their offensive philosophy to fit his.

The hog program is a dumpster fire right now.
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So they can their coach mid season to get a leg up on the competition in the coaching search and this is what they come up with?!?

Wow! Torbush. Wow!

Aggiehawg, what does the hubs make of this?
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Not the splash hire my Arky friends were anticipating.
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Who?
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No idea on this guy...wow. Coach O could always recruit as he's slick and dirty as owl chit.
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This can't be real.
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What an absolute disaster
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war hymn aggie said:

no currently employed high-profile coach is/was gonna take that job after they fired Morris in less than 2 years after he had to totally revamp their offensive philosophy to fit his.

The hog program is a dumpster fire right now.
After 1975, I hope it burns forever.
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This has disaster written all over it. A major program needs to hire either a major OC or a HC.

Hires like this just rarely pan out. OM hired Orgeron b/c O recruited well at USC. He didnt recruit as well at OM.

Before anyone says Dabo, he was made the interim midseason b/c the AD realized Dabo was more likely to keep the recruiting class together than either coordinator. They did not expect to remove the interim label. Then Dabo won a few he wasnt supposed to and they decided he earned his chance.

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Jerry's gonna need a few extra blue pills with this hire.
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Emilio Fantastico said:

So they can their coach mid season to get a leg up on the competition in the coaching search and this is what they come up with?!?

Wow! Torbush. Wow!

Aggiehawg, what does the hubs make of this?
Uhmm, well, he lurks here so I have some caution.

Making chicken salad out of chicken s***? He likes Pittman and thought Fat Bert should not have driven him and Enos off.

I love my husband. He's been in deep pain about his beloved Razorbacks for several consecutive years now. There comes a point where enough salt poured into a wound, heals it.

He ain't there yet.

Yesterday during the morning of championship weekend, I asked, "Mimosas?" He replied, "Don't we need to save the champagne?" Before I even thought about it I replied, "What for? Arkansas bowl game?"

He shook his head and said, "You are as cold as homemade ice cream."

I said, "Sorry but you brought up rock salt with the homemade ice cream reference. Cold, salt... both hurt."
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Clemson was 3-3 when Bowden resigned. Swinney went 4-3 so it wasn't really different. It worked out.
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aggiehawg said:




Yesterday during the morning of championship weekend, I asked, "Mimosas?" He replied, "Don't we need to save the champagne?" Before I even thought about it I replied, "What for? Arkansas bowl game?"

He shook his head and said, "You are as cold as homemade ice cream."

He'll need it to soothe that burn. AH is formidable.
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Arkansas... the Vanderbilt of the Ozarks.
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Curious to see what style of offense he goes with. Guess it depends on who he hires as OC.

It's definitely an unorthodox hire and the majority of college football fans will laugh at it because they don't know who he is but he was one of the first names mentioned when we fired Morris, at least by former players. Our players loved him when he was here and if he never left for Georgia I think Bielema eventually works out at Arkansas. Best recruiter and OL coach in college football IMO. Definitely need to give him a lot of money for assistants since he has a lot of SEC connections. We obviously struck out on some guys but seeing what Coach O is doing with LSU and Dabo with Clemson probably thought we could do something similar I guess. All we need is someone to stabilize the program, not win the SEC or anything.
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Possible Aggie Connection--I think Pittman may have been on Fran's staff at Pittsburg State in 1985.
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I think this will end up being a good hire for them if they give him time. He is Probably the best o line coach in the country if you haven't heard of him that is more on you.

I admit I am biased he was my hs football coach so yeah I am old but he is great and everyone that ever played for him will tell you the same.
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ldg397 said:

I think this will end up being a good hire for them if they give him time. He is Probably the best o line coach in the country if you haven't heard of him that is more on you.

I admit I am biased he was my hs football coach so yeah I am old but he is great and everyone that ever played for him will tell you the same.
All of the sip players felt the same about Charlie Strong. He might be a great man but will he be a great HC? He's going to have to produce a 5-6 win season in the next two years if Arkansas has any hope at all of finding some sort of modern day relevance. For sure, he'll need to win at least 3 SEC games by the end of year two.
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