Trey Daerr proved you can go home again. Sort of. KNWA’s newest sports director returned to the local media market this month after more than a decade-long absence. The last time the Pig Trail Nation head called Northwest Arkansas home, Bobby Petrino was leading the Razorbacks as near to the glory land as the team had, or has, come since the late 1980s.
Call it dumb luck that Petrino’s name is on the lips of the Hogs’ faithful again. Coach Sam Pittman’s six-year tenure as football coach draws what appears to be its last breaths, heading for the same fate as Mike Gundy, the Oklahoma State coach just axed after two decades on the job.