Thoughts on Arnett 2.0

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12-08-2025, 07:23 PM
bigplayslay

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Originally Posted by DownwardDawg

You just described Lane Kiffin!!!!

Ha! Only after he did what no one would ever do and leave Oxford
12-08-2025, 07:33 PM
Jarius

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Originally Posted by KB21

I disagree with this idea. They could have absolutely transitioned to one of the modern versions of the Air Raid. I get that no one would run it like Leach, but there are a lot of offensive coordinators that run a version of the Air Raid.

We didn’t have money to Buy players because cohen is an idiot. It didn’t matter what offense we ran after 2023, we were going to suck.
12-09-2025, 02:40 PM
speedy1972

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

He didn't destroy it and you know that. Dave Emerick and Matt Dudek destroyed our program. Leach, God rest his soul, had a hand in that. He hired them, or signed off on it, and they were in charge of recruiting. The fall off was never going to be evident under Mike because Mike got more out of his players and knew his scheme so well that he schemed G5 guys consistently open against top tier P4 defenders. But we all knew the minute Mike left, we were going to be rebuilding because we knew we had to build up recruiting. You could look at our roster and see that.

Arnette didn't personally destroy our program. However, he was asked to do something he didn't ask for and certainly wasn't qualified to do. That solely falls on the president since we didn't have an AD at the time.
Arnette was an up and coming DC who did a great job for us for three years. He doesn't have and never did have the temperament to be a HC in the SEC. A HC is a CEO and he is just an area supervisor. However, Leach gave him total autonomy with the Defense and left him the hell alone. And for three years, no one that I know was bitching about our defense. Yes, he screwed up (allegedly) in Vegas, but if we start getting on that moral high ground for coaches, there wouldn't be many to pass that test... Petrino, Freeze, Orgeron, Urban Meyer, Kiffen, where should I stop??? Pull up OM's head coach's mug shot for DUI.
Let the man do his job. I can assure you that no one will be more determined than ZA. If he has enough talent to work with, he will be a big upgrade from what we had under Hutzler.
12-09-2025, 02:47 PM
StarkVegasSteve

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Originally Posted by speedy1972

Arnette didn't personally destroy our program. However, he was asked to do something he didn't ask for and certainly wasn't qualified to do. That solely falls on the president since we didn't have an AD at the time.
Arnette was an up and coming DC who did a great job for us for three years. He doesn't have and never did have the temperament to be a HC in the SEC. A HC is a CEO and he is just an area supervisor. However, Leach gave him total autonomy with the Defense and left him the hell alone. And for three years, no one that I know was bitching about our defense. Yes, he screwed up (allegedly) in Vegas, but if we start getting on that moral high ground for coaches, there wouldn't be many to pass that test... Petrino, Freeze, Orgeron, Urban Meyer, Kiffen, where should I stop??? Pull up OM's head coach's mug shot for DUI.
Let the man do his job. I can assure you that no one will be more determined than ZA. If he has enough talent to work with, he will be a big upgrade from what we had under Hutzler.

Agree 100%. Zach was not remotely qualified to be the HC when he took the job. We panic hired him to keep a, hindsight being 20/20, BAD recruiting class together.
12-09-2025, 03:32 PM
Todd4State

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

Agree 100%. Zach was not remotely qualified to be the HC when he took the job. We panic hired him to keep a, hindsight being 20/20, BAD recruiting class together.

The fact that we were worried about keeping a high school class together in the NIL/portal era just shows how out of touch our football program was at the time.
12-09-2025, 03:44 PM
BlackSailsDawg

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

The fact that we were worried about keeping a high school class together in the NIL/portal era just shows how out of touch our football program was at the time.

The only worse team in the SEC than us was and still is Arkansas.

Just be thankful Cohen is gone and that we don't have the Ark AD. That man is a moron! He says things that should never be made public. Example. Hunter Yurachek publicly said that Pittman “did not have the resources he needed to appropriately compete” in the conference.

WHO IS AT FAULT? Yurachek. No self awareness. That is your friggin job. And he is STILL their AD. We have a 2 year jump on them.
12-09-2025, 03:46 PM
StarkVegasSteve

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

The fact that we were worried about keeping a high school class together in the NIL/portal era just shows how out of touch our football program was at the time.

We had no AD, a former compliance guy as the interim(who turned us, the school paying him, in multiple times for paying players), a university president who is far too involved in athletics to not have an understanding of NIL, and an overzealous group of boosters that saw an opportunity to get some sources on staff.

It was the perfect storm of bad things. We had a chance to swing big and didn't.
12-09-2025, 03:48 PM
StarkVegasSteve

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Originally Posted by BlackSailsDawg

The only worse team in the SEC than us was and still is Arkansas.

Just be thankful Cohen is gone and that we don't have the Ark AD. That man is a moron! He says things that should never be made public. Example. Hunter Yurachek publicly said that Pittman “did not have the resources he needed to appropriately compete” in the conference.

WHO IS AT FAULT? Yurachek. No self awareness. That is your friggin job. And he is STILL their AD. We have a 2 year jump on them.

As long as John Calipari is employed as the Arkansas basketball coach, they will continue to suffer in this new era of college football. He will take 8-12 mil of NIL, between rev share and private donations, each and every year. That's an extra 5-7 mil that football is not getting every year.
12-09-2025, 03:52 PM
BlackSailsDawg

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

As long as John Calipari is employed as the Arkansas basketball coach, they will continue to suffer in this new era of college football. He will take 8-12 mil of NIL, between rev share and private donations, each and every year. That's an extra 5-7 mil that football is not getting every year.

And here's the thing. The AD had NOTHING to do with getting him. That was a booster.
12-09-2025, 03:56 PM
Coursesuper

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

We had no AD, a former compliance guy as the interim(who turned us, the school paying him, in multiple times for paying players), a university president who is far too involved in athletics to not have an understanding of NIL, and an overzealous group of boosters that saw an opportunity to get some sources on staff.

It was the perfect storm of bad things. We had a chance to swing big and didn't.

Add in boosters infighting with each other and the administration at the same time it made of the perfect storm of dumb****ery.

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