The lingering effects of the hot seat Sam Pittman inherited six years ago as head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks football program were apparent when he took the stage two weeks ago at the SEC Media Days in Atlanta.
Gone was the cool, down-home charm which disarmed those alarmed with Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek's choice to hire a first-time head coach to captain the flagship program at school he once hailed as "The Campus of Champions." Behind him are Pittman's lazy spring days along the Hot Springs lakeside drinking home brewed ale off bath house row.