I agree he knows more about the ins and outs of the SEC better. I doubt he was in consideration for the job when CJH took it because I can't see Pittman pulling a Kiffin on Arky after 1 year.
If UT had hired Sam Pittman most brains of the “head coaches“ on this site would have blown up. I can hear it now, “no head coaching experience, never even been a cordinator, can’t recruit, etc. he may eventually fail at Arkansas but it sure looks like a good hire to this point. Just shows how ignorant so many of us are.
So you want results and I get it as that ultimately is what matters. The reason people are looking for other positives is because the results aren’t there yet but if we just cut this coach now it’ll only set us back more. So, everyone is looking for signs that maybe the results will be coming. But where you get a little inconsistent is you refer to Bailey’s accuracy but you wants results and the results when Bailey led the team were. It good as we only hit 20 points once and that was against an atrocious Vandy team. Yes Bailey played with 2nd and 3rd string players but he way playing against TN Tech for goodness sakes and probably some of their backups at that point too. I doubt they played starters the whole game. Why would they? Bailey didn’t look very accurate against Tech but it wasn’t much time of course. Accuracy is more than completing passes anyway. It’s about putting the ball in the right places and I’d guess he is probably slightly better than Hooker there but Hooker was decent against UF when it came to ball placement. It’s true we don’t yet know what we have overall with Heupel but his track record as a player and coach all point to him knowing what he’s doing with QBs. Let’s give him a little time and see how it plays out before we write home off. I do agree on holding the TOs though. At 13 seconds left we absolutely should’ve used a TO. I agreed with saving them prior to that point but not using one there was stupid. If you only had 1 left maybe you don’t but with 2 that was so dumb. It’s not as dumb as running read option with a QB who can’t run and never does. That was a whole other level of stupid, premeditated dumbassery.
Early eye test, but I actually feel super hopeful about Heupel. There are some concerns of course: penalties, clock management, etc. However, the team just feels well coached and well schemed. We look prepared coming out in the 1st half every game so far. That screams to me that the coaching staff knows what they are doing. This is easily one of our least talented teams in the last 10-15 years. We have no depth on either side.
