The University of Arkansas should hire me.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The hallway leading to Sam Pittman’s office is bustling with movement on a Wednesday. The Arkansas coach is planning for an evening staff assembly, chatting with hostile facilitator Bobby Petrino approximately coordinations. The collaborator coach’s office entryway is open, permitting a number of words to eek into the passage. A plexiglass divider gives a see at what still appears like a Hoard fan’s most out of control fever dream:
Petrino, dressed in Razorbacks clothing, planning an offense 12 a long time after driving the Pigs to back-to-back 10-win seasons.

It’s been three months since Pittman stunned the nation and energized Arkansas fans when he contracted Petrino, the former Arkansas head coach who was terminated within the spring of 2012 after lying to his bosses almost the points of interest of a cruiser mishap and extramarital undertaking. But here he is, in Fayetteville, his voluminous playbook and photographic memory giving the establishment to strategize and ideally revitalize an offense that shriveled a year back within the doldrums of the SEC.

“He’s an extremely great ball coach, but he’s a great individual,” Pittman tells 247Sports. “He’s been truly, truly great for me.”

That’s all Pittman seem have inquired for when he went looking for a modern hostile facilitator in December.

Pittman enters his fifth season on the hot seat. The 4-8 season final drop was ostensibly his most exceedingly bad, and the root of the issue can be followed to the contracting of Dan Enos as hostile facilitator.

The Hogs’ hostile line was permeable and quarterback KJ Jefferson relapsed, but those were as it were indications of the illness:
a confused alter in hostile frameworks. The Pigs discarded Kendal Briles’ Veer and Shoot and supplanted it with Enos’ NFL-style offense that didn’t fit the Hogs’ work force. Generation tumbled, positioning broadly within the triple digits for passing and add up to offense, and surging wasn’t much superior at 86th.

Pittman gets it the weight that he faces in 2024. He’s too covetous to mend a fractured fan base as it treks into a modern time for the SEC, where Texas and Oklahoma arrive as conference rivals this fall.

After a brief chat with Petrino fair after 1 o’clock on a Wednesday in February, Pittman exits Petrino’s entryway, strolls a 10-yard out course to his possess office down the corridor, and takes a situate behind his well-organized and spotless oak work area. The building is buzzing with movement, and Pittman’s phone will field two phone calls over the another 42 minutes, but he’s prepared to open the entryway and reveal what he accepts will be a unused, brighter chapter for Arkansas football amid an elite meet with 247Sports.