Jon Gruden speaking to the LR touchdown club last year:
“I was concerned about being a college coach because I would have ya on the death penalty probation within six months,” Gruden said. “But, now that you’re paying players—and I know a bank with $27 billion—I’d love to have the Arkansas job. I’ll tell you that.”
This isn’t a post advocating us to hire Jon Gruden. But contrast this quote from him with Pittman and Yurachek’s approach to NIL and the problem with our program is obvious. We need our head coach and our athletic program to fully buy in to NIL in order to win football games. We will be stuck in the bottom of the SEC until we have that.
“I was concerned about being a college coach because I would have ya on the death penalty probation within six months,” Gruden said. “But, now that you’re paying players—and I know a bank with $27 billion—I’d love to have the Arkansas job. I’ll tell you that.”
This isn’t a post advocating us to hire Jon Gruden. But contrast this quote from him with Pittman and Yurachek’s approach to NIL and the problem with our program is obvious. We need our head coach and our athletic program to fully buy in to NIL in order to win football games. We will be stuck in the bottom of the SEC until we have that.
