There was a time not so long when the in-state talent which managed to get on the national recruiting radar were bankable commodities for the Arkansas Razorback football program. That was before Bobby Petrino's fateful crash out in 2012, and the program has struggled to regain its once-promising market capital on the field — or in households across the Natural State — ever since.
Sam Pittman (30-31 overall, 14-28 SEC) begins his sixth season on one of the hottest coaching seats in college football and the natives are getting restless. The program remains mired in a recession and teeters on the brink of falling back into the depression era Pittman inherited from his predecessor.