Houston Nutt Resigns As Razorbacks Head Coach

Can’t say we didn’t see this coming. Nutt did a great job as coach here and we wouldn’t be where we are today without his work. I hope he finds success wherever he lands.

Thanks for all your hard work, HDN! Go Hogs!

Now, let’s start over.

Hey, he had a good run but in the end just too many distractions and unexplained losses. I look forward to the future, let’s hope this guy doesn’t land in the SEC. I think Ga Tech or SMU would be good fit for him.

And now WHAT???? Who will be his successor?….We will have to wait to see what is goning to happen with Les Miles and Michigan….If he goes to Michigan, we will not be able to land a better coach than HDN in Arkansas because the best coaches in the nation will want to go and work fot LSU.

Houston, we will miss you!!!!!

Congratulations haters. Job well done.

Too much White still left in the system. If he had acted a year ago, I’d give him a free pass but now… it’s 2 down and 1 to go for me.

We are almost there!

Let me see if I got this right, “Nutt was in over his head”, and “he is not an SEC level coach”. Just beat the #1 team in the country in their own backyard and was SEC Coach of the Year last year. Seems to be a conflict.

HDN can take with him his wife and her emails, her friend Prewitt and his 2,000 texted messages. I imagine the fellows with the biggest grins right now are M. Mustain, D. Williams, G. Malzahn and Mrs. Mustain.

Who cares where HDN ends up? I’m much more concerned about who will coach the Razorbacks next year. Jimmy Johnson, anyone?

texhogforever, no thanks. I’ll pass on Jimmy Johnson every day of the week.

T-towner, amen. I’ll second that. I wish no harm on Houston (never did that I remember and never will). He has done much good but too much bad. While the bad didn’t out number the good, there just wasn’t enough good to justify keeping him around.

I have heard several times today that Long has been speaking to Bill Cower….Can anyone comment on this?

Most of you here wanting Nutt out make me want to vomit. Who in the hell is going to want to come coach here now? All it takes is some of the players Mommies and a bunch of wanna-be Razorbacks to force the coach out. The Razorback fans are the freaking laughing stock of the country right now. I currently live and Dallas and the radio stations here are essentially laughing their butts off at you morons. Today was a terrible day for the Hogs. Thanks a lot you idiots.

Yes I’m reposting this from the other link.

Well, I’ve read the blog consistently and I agree with DallasHog. Arkansas fans are the laughing stock of the nation bc of the inflated egos many carry around. It was only last April when those same fans began talking about Larry Brown, Bill Self, John Calipari and Tom Crean as candidates for the basketball position. Now they’re gossiping about Bill Cowher, Jimmy Johnson and Tommy Tuberville.

There’s a reason why Arkansas is battling MS and LA for the bottom spot in the education rankings. LEARN FROM PREVIOUS MISTAKES.

Btw – I will gladly eat crow in two years if the incoming coach takes us to the much ballyhooed “next level.” Unfortunately, I think we’re in for another decade like the 90′s.

Good luck Houston and thanks for the last ten years. I do think that he truely loved the hogs and the state but his downfall was his inability to make the changes that would have helped the program. To much drama and his timing to leave was good.

I do have one question to all of you on here. What if we get another coach who wants to lead the conference in rushing each year? Was it HDN or his style of coaching? FOr me it was all the drama.

Nutt is a great coach. Who else could have had such a mediocre record with a backfield that is rated the best in the country with all three probably going in the first round of the NFL draft. Who else could run off the number one QB recruit in the nation along with a highly recruited receiver. Who else could devise an offensive strategy based solely on McFadden and Jones being able to eventually bust one. Who else could recruit an inconsistent field goal kicker and when that was taken care of, have a punter who is mediocre at best and a kick-off specialist who can’t get the ball into the end zone. who else could be forced to hire an offensive coach (twice) and not utilize them. (Last game excepted).

Who else would push for a two year extension for a receivers coach who couldn’t consistently recruit good receivers and then could not teach the one’s he had to get separation and hold on to the ball. The happiest group in the USA are now rival SEC coaches since Nutt is going to ole Miss. This is a good fit since any improvement will be appreciated. He can claim rebuilding and who knows, if he can win 3 SEC games for the Rebels he will again will be coach of the year (Croom will win it with 4). I found it funny that in one breath that a blogger here would say that Nutt was a great coach and then follow it with we need a bowl win because it has been a long time.coming. Regarding the upcoming bowl, it seems that even the Cotton isn’t interested. Now wouldn’t it be a hoot if Arkansas faced Tulsa in the Liberty Bowl. Herring vs Malzahn. Talk about a grudge match. Now that would worth a lot of tickets.

Coaching changes are hard to predict. Weiss for Willingham at ND is a bust, but Willingham is in trouble at Washington. Hatfield went from UA to Clemson where he failed and then to Rice where he failed even worse. Hatfield was also run oriented rather than having an open offense. Arkansas needs a coach that understands the modern spread offense being used today. But wasn’t that what Callahan at Nebraska was? I would like to think that Long has an open mind and is not going with cronyism. I am optimistic until proven otherwise.

Anyone want to start up a pool on how many of our recruits elect to bail now? Finally we get a Top-20 class and after this latest bit of fun I’ll say, oh, 1/3 of them take off (6-7).

Also, how many of our coaching staff will stay? I know some of you don’t have much respect for Herring but what about Rocker? Markuson? Rocker’s recruiting (especially in my neck of the woods: Atlanta) has been phenomenal and I have no complaints about his coaching. Markuson’s body of work speaks for itself. No matter what sort of offense you plan to run, you need a good, solid o-line and he’s provided that year in and year out. Woods and Shibest aren’t so hot but it won’t be the ‘not so hot’ coaches who leave.

What happens if we lose a significant number of our recruits and some of our best staff from this latest episode? i don’t think it’ll really mater who our HC is, in that case…oh yeah, I’ll sooo be looking forward to the next few years.

Seems to me the Hogs could do a whole lot worse in the coaching dept. than HDN. Just how many National Championship winning coachs are out there. Oh yeah Danny Ford won a National Championship!!!! Maybe we can get him back. My point is it takes more than just credentials to get a championship. (I personally think ole HDN has it in him to get there just not at UA) My other point is there are probably 75 coaches that will never see a championship to every one coach that will. How do you know your not trading one that could for a string of those who never will.

Class exit Houston.What I saw during HDN’s resignation speech was what I loved about him in his first seven years,but he lost it the last three.Sincerity,and true passion for the program and not hisself.Thank you for doing the right thing for the program.the fans and most importantly your family.I can just imagine what it has been like for you and your family with all the criticism from the fans(myself included).I wish you the best of luck wherever you end up(probably OLE MISS) at least you won’t have to prepare for DMAC or Felix When you come to the Hill.I do hope the next coach has the same love and passion HDN had for this program his first seven years and here at the end.We the very passionate fans deserve a very passionate coach.Whoever we get just remember the cupboard will be pretty bare losing our entire backfield.Remember the last time we lost our backfield all we were left with was Matt Jones and that was a disaster year.Whoever we get we need to get them quickly so we can have some type of stability to show potential recruits.Personally I would like to have another Arkansas native to head this program that understands the passion all the fans have shown over the years.Whether you were a Nutt hater or a Nutt supporter we all have shown passion and we all truly want this program to be successful.Let’s be like Nutt and move on. Let’s start preparing ourselves to be as passionate for the Razorbacks and the new direction we are heading.Give the new guy a chance like we did HDN for several years.GO HOGS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DallasHiog:

Consider this: The State of Mississippi produces considerable football talent, But, and it’s a big but, Ole Miss has to compete against MSU and USM for that talent. A major reason for Broyles not wanting to play ASU was to not give them any kind of an edge on recruiting. Two of the reasons Sabin gave for leaving Michigan State was that he was tired of being the second school in Michigan and wanted to go where the talent was. LSU is THE school in Louisiana. Nutt had that same advantage in Arkansas. Some feel because of the Mustain affair that he had hurt Razorback recruiting in Western Arkansas. Now he’s going where the compettion for players is more intense. Plus it looks like Croom may have got it going at MSU (He’s got a terrific freshman QB) and he may be very difficult to recruit against in-state..I just don’t see Nutt doing that well initially, considering the advantages he had at Arkansas, in not producing an SEC Chamiopnship or a winning record in bowl games.. What will happen at ole Miss is for someone else to predict, I don’t know what the Rebs have coming back. Plus, Nutt may have seen the light and no longer will have Broyles looking over his shoulder discouraging the spread, He may just light it up at Oxford. We’ll see.

Regarding a new coach: Unless i’m reading it wrong the new coach will have a relatively bare cupboard to work with. Established coaches may not like that scenario, especially if they have to develope a recruiting base from scratch. Unlike some here, I think that the best chance for UA next year to have a better than .500 seaon is to get a coach who will open up the offense. To me that means someone like Leach at TTech or Johnson from Navy. It is possible that if Herring can win the bowl game that he may be an interim head coach with a limited contract dependant upon future success. Because of Broyles we even had a difficult time recuiting a known entity in basketball even tho we had plenty of talent. Maybe the new coach, like Pelphrey, will come out of the woodwork.

Insofar as keeping some of the assistant coaches are concerned, new management generally wants their own people. Has to do with loyalty, control and trustworthiness. If Reggie gets the job, he will retain those he likes and can help him and get rid of those he thinks will not. Reggie strikes me as a hardball guy and friendship ends where job security begins. .

He took less than a couple of hours to be named the coach of Ole Miss. Leave it to old Dale to land on his feet quickly. All you Nutt supporters can drive down to Oxford and cheer on Nutt and those Rebels, good luck with that okay. I am still escatic he is going going gone.

Thank you BlindHog for the excellent post. For those who lived it, we know. For those Johnny come lately’s to this blog site; who cares. A few minutes ago I saw a brief interview of HN on ESPN2. He obviously is still floating down that river in Egypt.

i see where nutt is taking coaches with him to ole miss.i didnt see where they mentioned reggie leaving.i may be wrong but the games we lost this year was bad d. i sure hope wher smarter than making rh hc.