There was a reason Sam Pittman took 29 days to fill his staff.
He knew what he wanted in and from every person who was going to work side-by-side with him to fix the University of Arkansas football program.
Some of them were home runs. All of them appear to be solid hires.
Barry Odom as defensive coordinator was a grand slam.
Odom, former head coach at Missouri, has 16 years of college coaching experience, was the defensive part of the reason Memphis football turned around.