SI.com · May 31, 2016
What Baylor and Grobe should heed from Arkansas’s post-Petrino experience
Four years ago this week, a man who had taken over a very good football team under very strange circumstances explained his strategy for avoiding bulls while running with them in Spain. It involved waiting in a corner and hoping all the beef simply thundered past. "Just wait," John L. Smith said in May 2012. "Let 'em come to you. Then run up the hill with them into the stadium. Then you're home free. … Some will turn the corner. Some will make a hasty, abrupt stop into the corner."
Smith made comparisons between dodging bulls and the job he'd just accepted as the interim coach at Arkansas. He could only control his strategy.
