Team of the Week: Arkansas is a Highly Unusual Kind of Mess

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Three games into Ryan Silverfield’s coaching tenure, Arkansas fans are in open revolt against their athletic director. The team is bad, and the university overlords are already running a “review” of the athletic program. How did the vibes get this bad this quickly? It’s a long story, and it’s only somewhat about the coach who was under pressure from the second he took the job. Rodger Sherman joins Alex for our latest TEAM OF THE WEEK episode, where we finally focus on a program where things are not going well.

* 1:05: Ryan Silverfield’s honeymoon never started

* 7:22: The coaching hire, and the cost of waiting another year on Sam Pittman

* 15:25: What Arkansas gained and lost by joining the SEC

* 18:59: The Waltons, the chicken money, and Arkansas’ billionaire relationships

* 28:59: Hunter Yurachek’s mounting problems

* 39:52: What would success even look like for Arkansas now?

TEAM OF THE WEEK is a subscriber series where Rodger Sherman and SZD hosts talk about a college football team doing something no one else is doing. Scroll for episodes on NDSU, UMass, and Oklahoma State.