BOL Round Table

Davis took over Miami AFTER they got hammered. Davis did not cause Miami get into trouble.

Let's get real here. The dude y'all are talking about at UAB is not going to be even remotely competitive with Saban and Miles. Arky has to step forward, not backward. If they hire the UAB dude, they are saying they are okay with being an also ran.

I agree with this.

Interim is the better option if you can't find your guy. I wonder about someone like Briles, Fitzgerald, maybe even Luke Fickell.

Briles would be my first call. He can't expect to accomplish much more while at Baylor. The Timing just sucks for any current coach to leave the school they are currently at.

With all due respect, McGee isn't the best option. They should go interim, period, and then do a nationwide search for the absolutely best coach in the country that they can get.

McGee may be a former Hawg assistant, but his resume is very light and he's never been a head coach before. If this was December instead of April, McGee shouldn't even get an interview, unless it's a token interview because he was their OC. He has yet to prove that he can be a successful head coach, much less as a head coach of a top ten program.

Better to take some lumps in 2012 rather than make a mistake and hire an unproven lightweight just because you've got a loaded gun at your head.

How can you give a guy the title as interim head coach this year… when all the Arkansas fans think this is their year to win the West and make a run at a National Championship? (I know crazy... right) I do see the fans reacting to favorable to that decision and I look for Arkansas to at least go after one of these guys.... Butch Davis, Skip Holtz, Gus Malzahn, Tommy Tuberville, or Tommy Bowden. If nobody is interested in the head job then maybe the interim route as a last resort.

Of course you take it if you get the offer...but the reality is that you shouldn't get the offer. Being the #5 team in the country demands that you conduct a thorough search and get the best coach in the country that you can get. April isn't a time of year when you can do that. See Mike Shula.

A couple of months of experience as a head coach of a glorified high school program with a fan base of about 500. Fisher and Muschamp had far more experience than McGee, and they had that experience at national championship-programs. Second, there's still no excuse for not doing an exhaustive search. If in November-December 2012 you do an exhaustive search for the best coach you can get, and McGee ends up being that guy, then so be it. You don't just give him the job now because there's a gun to your head.

If it were only about systems I would agree with you. However, you are discounting the emotional toil that losing your coach that recruited you and basically turned the program around will take on 18-22 year olds. Not to mention the fact that you are turning the program over to someone with zero head coaching experience. All of this while playing in the best division in college football. Look at Ohio State last year for a case study. They were still a very talented team and some picked them to win the NC before Tressel was let go. There is very little chance that Arkansas is very competitive this year. Historically, teams with situations similar to this tend to wilt later in the season. 6-6 or 7-5 would be a success for them in my opinion.