That’s pretty much been the case. Even Frank Broyles knew it. After all, do you think the buildup in the basketball and baseball programs was an accident? Nobody has ever known the complete picture around Arkansas athletics better than Broyles, who had the unique ability to view into the future and know what was coming.
Now ESPN has the in the under-achieving category in a ranking. It would be very hard to argue the logic of that. The two schools are very similar in their results and the revolving door around recent coaching hires.
For folks over the age of 30 or so, none of this is surprising. Some keep asking when the Hogs are going to get back to the days when the expectation every year was to compete for a conference and national title. Now they simply want to win enough games for a bowl trip somewhere other than Memphis or Shreveport.
After a knee-jerk decision led to a ridiculous hire of Bret Bielema, the course was set for the immediate future. It was never going to work with Bielema from the start and that was clear before he got to his office that first night. He didn’t have the multiple experience needed.
That led to the Chad Morris deal when a completely unqualified person made the choice. Morris recruited fairly well, but was terrible in too many ways to even start listing.