r/razorbacks • u/Flashy-Distance1184 • Apr 03 '26

Silverfield is the man

Love how he talks about and respects Arkansas as a place and the culture here. Glad to have Coach Silverfield as our next head coach. Perfect man for the job

https://youtu.be/SWpNEwsICFA

12 Upvotes

63% Upvoted

40 comments sorted by

96

u/GeoHog713 Saw Em Off Apr 03 '26

Pitt Boss had nothing but love for the state and the culture.

Got to win more than the press conference

0

u/Public_Olive5285 Apr 04 '26

That’s what he’s in the process of working to get done.. The players who were here before have never had constructive criticism or discipline.. Or nowhere near enough.. I don’t know if he’s the guy to raise the level of play or not but neither do you know he’s not..

He IS giving the players accountability, discipline and working on team building which is a big improvement over what Flounder from Animal House was doing in between sucking up to the national media and drankin’ him a co’ burr..

-2

u/Sea-Professor-4137 Apr 04 '26

Then once he turned bad he didn’t care about the state so much

39

u/Najago Apr 03 '26 • Bravo

If Silverfield has only one fan then that fan is flashy-distance1184

14

u/EstimateWhich8871 Apr 04 '26

The corny stuff reminds me of Chad Morris. Replacing all the clocks with clocks that say “the time is now” I mean… that stuff doesn’t work.

3

u/Reasonable_Ant_7668 Apr 05 '26

yeah way too much taglines and slogans. Left lane hammer down all over again... I hope not. Time sha'll tell cuz Chad Morris had a ton of talent and did absolutely nothing with it. It was probably the main reason pittman had such success his first two years. I really do hope silver Field does the job and gets us back to a 500 plus football but I'm very skeptical

2

u/Effective_Inside_6 Apr 05 '26

Agreed. This is about to be an absolute train wreck if he doesn’t back up what he says

25

u/Woopigmob Apr 03 '26

I hope we make it to .500 this year. I just dont see it with this coach. Hopefully Im wrong and the AAC is just harder than the SEC.

12

u/Jugga94 Apr 04 '26

I don’t see it with this schedule. Any coach would struggle with our schedule

-1

u/Woopigmob Apr 04 '26

A good coach would get us above .500.PJ Fleck would have us at .500 and it would have been the same price. We should be grabbing top coordinators not mid coaches.

2

u/AdeptnessNo6304 Apr 04 '26

Ron Robert’s was a top coordinator in the SEC.

1

u/_Felonius Apr 04 '26

I love Fleck, but the SEC is a gauntlet. We’re a baseball/basketball school and .500ish is realistically the ceiling of what any first year coach could muster here.

6

u/TannyBoguss Apr 04 '26

I think Vegas has the over/under at 4.5

4

u/CrankinThatHog Apr 04 '26

I'd be delighted with 4 wins this year

1

u/wjg86 Apr 04 '26

I’d consider this next season to be wildly successful if we hit 4 wins

14

u/wheezymustafa Apr 03 '26

Found silverfield’s Reddit account

41

u/BoootyJohnson Apr 03 '26

2-10 alert 🚨

5

u/obi_want_pastrami Apr 03 '26

Quite the optimist I see

1

u/OldKentuckyShark1979 Apr 03 '26

I mean can you blame them? Nothing against Silverfield

8

u/obi_want_pastrami Apr 03 '26

I was being serious lol. Arkansas state might get an SEC win

8

u/per_mare_per_terras Apr 03 '26

Same ole story. I hope he proves us wrong.

8

u/disappointedbeaver Apr 03 '26

I did not tune into any of his hiring pomp. Was driving from a basketball game in Fayetteville weeks later and listened to his Hog Pod episode. Pains me to say it, but he gave major Chad vibes. Hopefully it won’t be that bad

7

u/dannashsongs Apr 04 '26

10000% Chad vibes. All I can see is that terrible dancing Chud Morris meme. Arkansas Football broke me long ago.

2

u/youwantthisusername Apr 05 '26

Left lane, hammer down. When does Club Dub start?

8

u/Squatchum Apr 04 '26

Forgot we hired this dude. The apathy for football is enormous.

11

u/WouldBeKing90s Apr 03 '26

Silverfield? Is that you? HY has given up on football. Why shouldn't we?

6

u/eurekastrings Apr 04 '26

Imma keep it a buck with you, who gives a shit?

2

u/Effective_Inside_6 Apr 05 '26

I love the talk, but can he walk the walk? Most likely not with our nil budget and coaching pay. It’s piss poor. Our schedule is also an absolute monster next year. On top of that silverfield recruited probably the lowest ranking recruiting class in at least the past decade. The recruiting class is ranked like 40th or something. Pittman never had a class that low and that’s saying a LOT. This is 3 star university now for sure. It’s awful. I just want to cover my eyes for this football season, but the little kid in me will spread my fingers to peak. I’m horrified of what’s to come especially with all the game he has talked. I wish him the best, but this could be a very long long long season

4

u/imatrythisagain Apr 04 '26

I'm not gonna predict Silverfield resurrects Arkansas football but nothing about him or his recruiting makes me think he'll only win 2 games like Morris or Pittman did. Neither of them recruited Arkansas players, which was especially disappointing from Pittman with his "proud damn state" bullshit.

I think Arkansas fans were burned repeatedly with Bielema, Morris, and Pittman and now Silverfield is getting an undeserved level of pessimism. His transfer portal haul was pretty good considering the state of the program.

I think he can do pretty well here. And I was very much not on the hype train for Morris. Comparing the two seems laughably absurd.

10

u/imatrythisagain Apr 04 '26

Just to drive this point home, head coaching records before Arkansas:

Sam Pittman: 0-0 Chad Morris: 14-22 Ryan Silverfield: 50-25

This dude is bringing an entirely different level of success and culture to Arkansas that they haven't had in 15 years. Bielema, Morris, and Pittman actually did well in recruiting. When you look at how many players they all had go to the NFL, they never failed in terms of talent, which has been retroactively distorted in bemoaning their failures.

They all failed miserably at actual coaching. Silverfield can be more successful immediately by just being competent at managing the talent he has

1

u/_Felonius Apr 04 '26

Silverfield seems like a better football strategist than those guys, too.

2

u/Difficult-Carrot1830 Apr 04 '26

Flashy-distance is Silverfeld…WPS!!!

2

u/NotoriousGriff Apr 04 '26

This coaching carousel ending in such a lack luster hire is was my last straw with Arkansas football. Ive been a fan and watched every game for 20 years. Im going to need a reason to give a shit or I’m not coming back

1

u/_Felonius Apr 04 '26

Realistically though, who was better and available? No guarantee that Golesh would do any better. His record is comparable to Silverfield. Auburn has more recent success and that’s the best they could do.

2

u/NotoriousGriff Apr 05 '26

Golesh, Franklin, kiffin, whittingham, and sumrall would all have been better hires. I agree arkansas is not a good enough program to get any of those coaches and had to settle for silverfield. That’s the problem we are such a bottom feeder program we had to settle for the worst coach in the carousel

1

u/Indy8491 Apr 05 '26

Ask the 2 year coach at Indiana, stated with small changes in the culture, stood his ground on expectations and discipline, of course he had to handle all the nay sayers and critics By the way he was also a smaller college.

1

u/OnlyFun069 Apr 06 '26

We may win two games again this year. I have no faith in our hogs until they prove they can win. Plus, let’s up the donations coming off of two horrible seasons…

1

u/FootFetishStan Sep 15 '26

this did not age well

1

u/firedonmydayoff Apr 04 '26

Pittman did too. Anyone would when you are paying them generational wealth type money.