FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas coach Sam Pittman now faces the biggest problem a coach can face. Forget the offensive coordinator chaos (they still may not have the right guy) or the defensive coordinator. When the fans lose interest, you’re done. That’s apathy, which simply means nobody really cares about you anymore.
That defense that has been getting a lot of credit for being better than last year finally broke into pieces. Yes, they were doing better, but they weren’t that great. Don’t use last year as much of a gauge because that bar was so low. This team doesn’t deserve to be in a bowl game, losing 7-of-8.
Nobody is calling for Pittman to be fired at midfield at the end of the game. There’s been a couple of guys in the last decade I thought that should have happened with. Athletics director Hunter Yurachek made his decision, backed him up this week in a public appearance and now has himself in an awkward spot.
There was an announced attendance of over 72,000 for that 48-10 fiasco at Razorback Stadium on Saturday afternoon, but there were some pretty big gaps of empty seats. Tickets were available all across the state because folks were calling me trying to give their seats away. I even began to wonder if they knew something I didn’t.
