The new Athletic Director is just that — ‘new.’  The old Athletic Director announced to the world that Arkansas can’t expect to be competitive year in and year out at the highest level of the SEC.

If Butch Davis is as smart as I think he is…there’s no way he comes to Arkansas.  Besides there’s his health and the whole ‘prophet is not without honor except in his own hometown’ thing.  Plus he’s not going to want to have to constantly deal with his own personal benefactor on the Board of Trustees.

And I couldn’t see any good reason to hire either of the ‘Tommy boys.’  I think both of them are too boring.

Throughout all of this, these quotes have come to mind: *

I don’t know what they have to say,
it makes no difference anyway –
whatever it is, I’m against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I’m against it!

– Groucho Marx

If I told you what it takes
to reach the highest high,
You’d laugh and say ‘nothing’s that simple’
But you’ve been told many times before
Messiahs pointed to the door
And no one had the guts to leave the temple!

– Pete Townshend

“In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed.  A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

– Abraham Lincoln

Our coaching choices appear to be:  a) someone brave and fearless on the way up — which means success will cause them to move on, or failure will send them back to the minors; or b) someone who got knocked back to the minors over some stupid issue and is working their way back up.

Looking from the outside in, who in their right mind would want to be ‘next?’  We just ran off a coach that won 18 games over the past two years.  We don’t exactly have history on our side.  This place has all the markings of a snake pit.

This is not an easy hire.  We have way more going against us than for us.

* We’ll give away a RazorBloggers t-shirt for the best interpretation and application of these quotes.