Majerus phones the Hogs

[ChicosBailBonds]

Rick Majerus has contacted the Arkansas Razorbacks about their coaching opening on Wednesday according to published reports.

[4everwarriors]

Majerus to the Hogs.

[Pardner]

Rick Majerus has contacted the Arkansas Razorbacks about their coaching opening on Wednesday according to published reports.

Wow...heard him the other day saying he has to stay home because of his mom when the Michigan job talk came up.  I know he is biting to get back at it, though.  I would have thought he would have taken the just filled Utah job where he is God if he wanted to go out of town.  With a reported snub already out there, and with the USC start and stop, I would think Rick would be a stretch for this job in order for Broyles to insure he goes out on a good note.  Good news is that Broyles is retiring for any coach.  Bad news is that it is a football school with no patience.  If TC goes, the MU job would be a marriage of convenience for Rick.

[BigSky]

Rick Majerus has contacted the Arkansas Razorbacks about their coaching opening on Wednesday according to published reports.

Wow...heard him the other day saying he has to stay home because of his mom when the Michigan job talk came up.  I know he is biting to get back at it, though.  I would have thought he would have taken the just filled Utah job where he is God if he wanted to go out of town.  With a reported snub already out there, and with the USC start and stop, I would think Rick would be a stretch for this job in order for Broyles to insure he goes out on a good note.  Good news is that Broyles is retiring for any coach.  Bad news is that it is a football school with no patience.  If TC goes, the MU job would be a marriage of convenience for Rick.

I wouldn't exactly call Arkansas a football school.  6 Final Fours...over 30 NCAA appearances.  Success over the long haul with different coaches.  Good support and hoops fans, and tradition there.

Hoops is big there.  Many belive Gillispie acceped the job at first but then wanted more time. 

[79Warrior]

I say bring Rick back to MU. It is home for him and he would be a lifer as coach. Fr. Wild knows by now if Tom wants to bolt. I say make the local call and get a veteran who understands MU basketball, assuming Tom wants to leave.

[Pardner]

I wouldn't exactly call Arkansas a football school.  6 Final Fours...over 30 NCAA appearances.  Success over the long haul with different coaches.  Good support and hoops fans, and tradition there.

Hoops is big there.  Many believe Gillispie accepted the job at first but then wanted more time. 

Yep, great BB history with some great coaches, but it is a football school.  Sandwiched between Oklahoma and Texas, football is religion.  The whole state shuts down and sooey calls can be heard for miles as big ole boys wearing razorback horns march around.  Broyles is the old coach pre Holtz, et al and he has little patience for the other sports.  Point is, B-ball is just one way to get back at their football neighbors.  Rick has never been second fiddle although USC would have been (which he bolted from for various reasons...mostly personal)

[Eye]

Bad news is that it is a football school with no patience.

Not sure I'd agree with that. Have always thought of Arkansas as more of a basketball school in a football part of the country.

[ChicosBailBonds]

I say bring Rick back to MU. It is home for him and he would be a lifer as coach. Fr. Wild knows by now if Tom wants to bolt. I say make the local call and get a veteran who understands MU basketball, assuming Tom wants to leave.

It would be a good short term fit, assuming his health is ok.  But right now we have a very good coach, energetic guy and hopefully one that will be around a long time.

But just in case....

[BigSky]

I wouldn't exactly call Arkansas a football school.  6 Final Fours...over 30 NCAA appearances.  Success over the long haul with different coaches.  Good support and hoops fans, and tradition there.

Hoops is big there.  Many believe Gillispie accepted the job at first but then wanted more time. 

Yep, great BB history with some great coaches, but it is a football school.  Sandwiched between Oklahoma and Texas, football is religion.  The whole state shuts down and sooey calls can be heard for miles as big ole boys wearing razorback horns march around.  Broyles is the old coach pre Holtz, et al and he has little patience for the other sports.  Point is, B-ball is just one way to get back at their football neighbors.  Rick has never been second fiddle although USC would have been (which he bolted from for various reasons...mostly personal)

Perhaps I can indulge you in some history Pardner.  First, it's "Sooie," and not "Sooey," but anybody learns that the first time they speak to anyone from Razorback country.  And you do realize the call originated during bad times for the football team?  Arkansas was good at football in the 60's and 70's...not much since.  Some really big struggles in 80's 90's...and Houston Nutt has lost less than 4 games once in his 10 or so years there.  

The football team until a few years ago had long played in a 50,000 seat stadium until it expanded....while the basketball team had and has been playing in the 5th largest  on campus venue in the country just under 20,000 state of the art arena.  Too bad Walmart didn't buck up the past few decades for football as much as hoops.  The hoops team was 12th in attendance last year.  And they fired the coach.    

Arkansas fans support their sports teams...the baseball team had 10k a game this past weekend for #1 Vandy.

It would be underinformed and misinformed to call Arkansas a "football school."  It is not Bama, Auburn, Georgia etc...or Texas.  BTW....last time I checked Arkansas was "sandwiched" between Missouri and Louisiana from North and South and multiple places West.  

Believe me, no hoops coach at Arkansas will be playing second fiddle to the football coach.

Sure Broyles is their retiring AD and he was the football coach, and had a long commentating career as well, and both he and Holtz won big there in the 60's and 70's.  However the hoops team won big in the 70's, 80's, 90's....and actually prior to that too.  Street and Smith called it the 10th most successful hoops program of all time.  

"It's a football school with no patience."  Huh?  Impatience for hoops...but not impatience for Houston Nutt and his football program.  He's still around.   

[Pardner]

Perhaps I can indulge you in some history Pardner.....
"It's a football school with no patience."  Huh?  Impatience for hoops...but not impatience for Houston Nutt and his football program.  He's still around.   

Wikepedia is a wonderful thing...I am sorry I didn't check it first like you but this really wasn't my my main point.  But, let me clarify--my reference to Oklahoma and Texas was to the old Southwest Conference football rivalries, not geography, this is what still drives the fans at Arkansas even though Ark has switched conferences.  Football is king in Arkansas if you have ever been down there for one game.  Not even close.  Look up Frank Broyles on Wik and see if you see more than a sentence on his basketball accomplishments as AD.  Did I say the fans don't support their basketball team?  No, not my intent.  But, like ND, Texas, Miami, Oklahoma, where football comes first and foremost.  You can argue it is shared there...but not like Kentucky, UNC or Duke.  Basketball certainly is not king.

Back on topic, about patience with basketball and Broyles...ask Heath, Richardson and Sutton, not me. 

[BigSky]

Lol....now it is "shared," which is much different than being a football school, and what I had said in the first place.  That is what you said, and I said no, it is not a football school.  Then you said basketball is basically just something to do to pass the time there, and again, that isn't true.

Having spent time there, I obviously knew you were wrong immediately and said so. 

I really didn't need Wikipedia to know one thing I posted, but thanks.

It is not a first and foremost football school.  Perhaps if it was, they would have been playing in something bigger than 50k and making more money long ago before the recent expansion.  Perhaps Walmart would have dumped more money into football than baseball.  Perhaps the football coach, perhaps, would be making more money than the hoops coach, even by a little. 

I would have accepted a "my bad" and moved on.

 

[dwaderoy2004]

bigsky, didn't you throw a hissy fit on another thread when someone inadvertently insulted your alleged wisdom.  now all your doing is attacking this guy, just to try and make yourself look like a big deal.  i see you can give it, but can't take it...

[BigSky]

bigsky, didn't you throw a hissy fit on another thread when someone inadvertently insulted your alleged wisdom.  now all your doing is attacking this guy, just to try and make yourself look like a big deal.  i see you can give it, but can't take it...

No idea what you are talking about on another thread? 

If I don't know something I ask or don't post.  Somebody posts something, and I politely disagreed twice.  I wasn't exactly the person who made a big thing about Arkansas, I responded to it.  "Wikipedia is a great thing" is inadvertent..."  ok got it.  Not attacking anyone.  He obviously wanted to continue with his original premise even if it wasn't accurate and even after politely pointed out by someone, ...then assumed I looked up my information and didn't have any first hand experience with the topic....then change his premise altogether.

There isn't any give it out and can't take it going on...it is what is truye and isn't true....you would have to also point out some other thread. 

[barabbas]

Even his name says it all! That guy always needs to be right, for whatever reason.

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