When it comes to college football coaching searches, there’s usually a veil between what coaches and administrators say and what’s actually going on behind the scenes.
Everybody is perfectly happy where they are (until they’re not) and everyone who takes a new job was only ever interested in that school. You know how it goes.
For new Arkansas football coach Ryan Silverfield, however, there’s a good deal of truth within that coach-speak.
It’s no secret that Silverfield wasn’t the first choice for athletic director Hunter Yurachek. The Razorbacks pursued “splash” candidates like Rhett Lashlee and James Franklin and came up empty-handed.