The tension surrounding the Arkansas football program finally reached a boiling point with the firing of head coach Sam Pittman on Sunday afternoon.
The embattled 63-year-old was already hanging on by a thread after a road loss to Memphis, but a 56-13 curbstomping by Notre Dame in Fayetteville on Saturday was the final straw.
With athletics director Hunter Yurachek facing job security questions of his own, he had to make a call. The close loss to the Tigers was already inexcusable, but the mass exodus from Razorback Stadium in the midst of the Fighting Irish’s beatdown was more proof that the situation had become untenable.