Is Sam Pittman On The Hottest Seat In The SEC?

Razorback Head coach Sam Pittman is on the hottest seat of all the SEC coaches according to On3.com. Is this warranted for Pittman entering into his 5th season?
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[@jimstocker8251]

we need to compete and win at least 6 to 7 games period. to much money involved to not have a competitive team.

[@elmerfudpucker5387]

Yurachek said in that interview about Musselman leaving that the football program needed to get back to winning 7-8 games. I don't think 6-6 in his 5th year is going to save Pittman

[@2xxNorMacKxx2]

4-8 again for 2024

[@marjoriegerik7970]

CSP started off strong with Chad Morris’s staff recruits. He couldn’t coach, but his staff could recruit.

[@elmerfudpucker5387]

Pittman has relied on Morris' leftovers and portal players for the meager success he's had. Pittman's poor high school recruiting isn't going to leave the next coach much to work with

[@tcr7436]

If u dont see that Pittman is gone after this year u are being crazy. Esp if he loses alot. Who would want to go to your school if the coach is done after this year.

[@HarrisBroadnax]

THIS

[@elmerfudpucker5387]

Boosters have limited their NIL donations towards football and moved them to Calipari and basketball. When you don't have the support of the boosters, the writing is on the wall

[@kevingodair4878]

Yes he is!

[@brettrobinson2901]

Uhhhh...arguably the toughest schedule in an expanded SEC ...coming off a 4-8 season...underwhelming recruiting and portal classes..losing close winnable game after close winnable game...if its NOT the hottest i'd like to know who's is hotter...

[@toadflax636]

Hire Roman Harper. Kids will gravitate to him. Put your old retread coaches back on the buffet line.

[@heysomeone0310]

Arkansas has had the toughest schedule in the nation for years

[@OttoCharles49]

Maybe they are the “Vanderbilt “ of the west.

[@GregginHOU]

Yepper, that's just about it in a nutshell. Just getting to 6-6 is going to require winning every game in which the Hogs aren't underdogs AND a couple of upsets as well. Can it happen? Yeah, sure. Will it happen? Ummm...I am not convinced. And the first two games will tell. The Hogs have to beat UAPB by, oh, say, 56-7 and look damn good while doing it and then they have to go to Stillwater and be super-competitive with OSU, to the point of actually winning that game. Anything less than those results and the red flags go up and Pittman's seat starts getting hotter.

[@OttoCharles49]

@@GregginHOU Old Sam will be bacon in the skillet by the 4th game.

[@brooksweiner9690]

I honestly think you had some team issues last year that were bubbling just under the surface. When that Offense sputtered, and the O line was exposed. We were lucky to win 4 games last year. I think you have a better team this year in a lot of ways. I believe with Petrino running the offense, T will in his second year with some returning talent; you are going to see a much-improved team. I'm calling 8 wins. I think the hogs have a phenomenal year at home this year. And I am calling the Auburn Game. Hogs go to Jordan Hare and get the win!!!!!

[@GregginHOU]

I would guess that, yes, Pittman's seat is the hottest in the SEC. It is the downward trajectory from 9-4 to 7-6 to 4-8 that's causing it. There MUST be a rebound and 6-6 is the bare minimum for the regular season. Anything less than that and he's gone.

[@elmerfudpucker5387]

6-6 in his 5th isn't going to satisfy anyone

[@stephenandluisa]

You guys need to get off Sam’s back… he did something that nobody ever thought would be done. He brought back Bobby p so get a life

[@LonokeCountyResearch501]

He didn’t do that 😂😂😂that was the athletic director

[@elmerfudpucker5387]

Everybody knows the boosters told Yurachek to bring Petrino back. You really think Pittman wanted Petrino back? That would be like your wife having her ex-husband move in with you

[@LonokeCountyResearch501]

@@elmerfudpucker5387 I can’t say I don’t agree about the boosters influence bc honestly I don’t believe they ever wanted to get rid of Bobby in the first place. That was ole Jeff long 😩✅

[@AlanDarden-ys4uw]

Arkansas needs to get out of the SEC to ever have any success. These schedules are and have been ridiculous!

[@drunkbriankelley]

If not it sure tf should be!! Idk a world other than the world where mediocrity is so widely accepted....UofA.....oh and petrino definitely isn't the answer at oc OR to replace ole cold beer!

[@nickirmen358]

Large swaths of the Arkansas media openly accept mediocrity and then blame fans for expecting more. Great example, anything written by Eric Bolin at BOAS, ever.

[@HarrisBroadnax]

Petrino is the answer but I fear Pittman will power challenge him when it matters in clutch situations

[@RichardMakela-hr6xk]

I doubt Sam would go back on his word to leave all of the play-calling solely to Petrino

[@HarrisBroadnax]

@@RichardMakela-hr6xk When you’re on a 4th & 1 and on the verge of upsetting a top 10 team..it changes your mind

[@michealcobb7344]

@@RichardMakela-hr6xkhe won’t because I don’t feel like he can.

[@mybaddadventures144]

Still on the adds, this is a dumbass question, I'd still be pissed if Bobby wasn't hired, Sam should have been fired immediately after last season

[@elmerfudpucker5387]

Bringing back a lame duck coach that nobody has any confidence in is only hurting the program and setting them back another year

[@elmerfudpucker5387]

Anybody with half a brain knows Sam Pittman has no business being the head coach. When you first have to have Barry Odom to help him out and now bringing back Petrino to show him what to do, it's pretty obvious he's in over his head. Hell, he even admitted after a game last year that he didn't know what to do during a critical moment of that game. Arkansas football is a laughing stock not only in the SEC but now nationally by bringing Pittman back. As long as he's in charge, the program will continue to fall behind. Now with OU and Texas joining the conference, that's two more schools that are more committed to winning than the UofA.

[@markcouch5258]

The big difference between Pittman and Napier is that Napier is losing with top ten recruiting classes and Pittman is still outperforming his recruting rankings.

[@elmerfudpucker5387]

Arkansas football recruiting rankings are usually between 20-30 nationally. When was the last time Arkansas finished in the top 25 poll? Pittman definitely isn't outperforming anything

[@markcouch5258]

@@elmerfudpucker5387 and he is outranked in those rankings by almost 70% of the teams we play. So I would say prior to last year he has outperformed his recruiting on the field. He finished 3rd in the West and then 5th in the West the previous 2 years so that's much higher than the ranking for recruiting against other teams in the SEC West. Hard to finish in the top 25 when play a minimum of 3 teams in the top 10

[@RichardMakela-hr6xk]

While it is easy to blame Sam for hiring Dan Enos as OC last year, everyone from Hunter Yurachek to the media and fans were all thumbs up to the hire. And why not? Enos had a stellar record at his previous stint at Arkansas. Nobody, including Sam, could have foreseen the inability of KJ and the rest of the offense to adapt to all of the complexities and new wrinkles that Enos tried to install in such a short period of time. Besides that, Razorback fans, by and large, expect immediate results and gratification, which is not realistic for the current program.

[@elmerfudpucker5387]

Enos was part of Bert's staff that was fired. Anybody that wasn't a homer thought it was a bad hire

[@RichardMakela-hr6xk]

@elmerfudpucker5387 You're referring to the Bret (not Bert) Bilema era. The interim Athleletic director, Julie Cromer People's, who fired Bilema, was the same genius who hired Chad Morris. All of us "Homers" remember what a great hire that was. Get with the program, Elmer.