Arkansas Fight · Nov 11, 2019
Evaluating the Candidates for the Arkansas Job
Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports Memphis’ Mike Norvell is likely a leading candidate for the Arkansas job.This is Part 2 of our series on Arkansas football’s coaching search. Read Part 1 here.
In Part 1 we discussed some of the things that led to Chad Morris’ failure as Arkansas head coach: failure to fix the offensive line, failure to fix the defense, bad offensive assistant hires, timid coaching, and failure to find ways to get the ball to the best players.
The Hogs have to get this hire right. Bad decisions by former AD Jeff Long and the bad hire of Morris have put Arkansas in a financial bind: the Hogs literally cannot afford to fire any more coaches in the near future.